Memories of Miss Memory

“Showing Off” is a new media exhibition curated by Daniel Kojta from 7 August - 20 September 2009.

Featuring work by: Keith Armstrong, Ella Barclay, Kirsten Bradley, Cash Brown, Ben Denham, Leah Heiss, Soda_Jerk, Janice Kuczkowski, Alexandra Gillespie & Somaya Langley, Sofie Loizou, Jordana Maisie, Peter Newman, David O’Donoghue, Jasper Streit & Rene Christen and Justene Williams.

This will be the first showing of Shimmer Prototype 2, which has been in development for the last 12 months. Here’s some pictures from the making of.

the mould for bowl 1 on the lathe

bowl 1 going through the process of annealing (heating the metal and cooling it immediately to make it pliable)

The Shimmer Prototype 2 has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Seems like there is always so much going on at this time of the year, isn’t there? This project is one that I really adored working on, a laneway’s installation for Art and About using the Chicken Little theme of “the Sky is Falling” (which considering the current economic situation is quite apt don’t you think?) with space debris and my contribution of strange space blips and zaps whipping up and down Angel Place held in place by beautiful cloud balloons. See artist impression below.

The exhibition starts on 4th October and should run for a few months. Will stick up a post with some pics when it all gets up and running.

Where: Angel Place, Sydney city
When: 4th October for a few months
See press here: Big guns shake up the art of the city
See Kirsten’s blog entry here
The Sky is Falling is a production by Reef Knot for Art And About.

Come along to Electrofringe in Newcastle next week and check out the very first public demonstration of the “brain-controlled musical instrument”, a project I have been researching with collaborator Scott Eggert. On Friday 3rd October at 3:30pm-5:00pm @ University House - Seminar 2 [UNH 1.38], we will be demonstrating the instrument and discussing our research and future plans for a brain controlled MIDI device/instrument. On Saturday 4th we will be joined by visual artist Mat McCosker and will be using the instrument in a performance with the music and visual being generated by the brain.