Playpen

I was clearing out some old CDs and found a Videobrasil XII one with this Antirom RGB performace on it. I think Gisela may have shot the footage as there are also some interviews with us at the Antirom office (looking very young). But I’m not sure where this performance was and have no doubt violated someone’s copyright.

Sorry about the ultra-compressed low quality, it was a Cinepak, tiny QT movie and the framerate seems a bit broken too, but it gives you a good idea of the flavour and atmosphere of the performance all those years ago.

[UPDATE: I've re-compressed and re-uploaded the video above (and removed the old one). It's still pretty rough, but the frame-rate is better.]

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I love YouTube, it really is becoming the archive of the world. Here’s a bit of the RGB performance Nic Roope, Joe Stephenson and I did when we were at Antirom. We performed a selection of our interactive sound toys - this climax of the show really where we jumped around on pressure pads triggering sounds and animations. Joe is in green, Nic in the Red and I was blue. Way back in 1997 I think. We really couldn’t dance (three middle-class white boys) but it really was a good time. You should have been there.

Thanks to Nic for finding this and whoever Newbrow is for uploading it to YouTube in the first place.

UPDATE: So, Nic reckons this is the Cybertheatre in Brussels and Shane thinks it might have been the performance we did for the 2nd onedotzero festival at the ICA. It was all a blur at the time for me - maybe someone remembers?

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Time Smear in action (click to enlarge)

Time Smear and Time Slicer form part of a series of live video works called Time Sketches that experiment with interactivity and the viewer’s image. Using video processing technologies these works play with time; chopping it up into fleeting moments and stretching it out across space. The result is a digital hall of mirrors, where you can see warped versions of yourself.

Time Slicer (click to enlarge)

Currently on display at the Powerhouse Museum supported by the Creativity and Cognition Studios at UTS and their beta_space project at the Powerhouse. Also supported by a research grant from UNSW.

Read more about this work here.

Photos by Greg Turner.

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Role: Interactive Director/Producer

The Annual CD-ROM for the College of Fine Arts is always a significant logistical and creative undertaking. With almost 400 students submitting up to nine pieces of work each, managing the project and satisfying the various creative tastes in an art college was a challenge. Once again, in collaboration with my students, we produced a visually and interactively rich as well as highly usable CD-ROM.

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Interaction Direction and Producer for the Annual CD-ROM of over 320 collected student works for the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. This interface worked on set-theory, allowing you to select subject areas and see the appropriate thumbnails. We wanted to show the range of work in one glance, hence the giant array of thumbnails. It was built with Flash and used an XML structure to describe all the works (which had been uploaded via a Web interface). Each student submitted nine works, resulting in over 2,880 entries - the logistics were complex.

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Interactive and Art Direction of a prototype CD-ROM for the Biennale of Sydney, 2004 in collaboration with my students. The project was unfortunately dropped do to lack of sponsorship for the Biennale, but the prototype was very beautiful and the springy nodal interface was great fun to use.

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Complete site design for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s youth portal, FlyNet (now in archive). Also included the development of Flash E-cards in collaboration with Andrew Knott and Steve Scott.

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