Spiral Network

2011 Outhear, Spiral Network – Release Agent 01 Footscray Community Centre, Vic An installation of four, graphite,graphic sound producing antenna, installed at The footscray Community Centre for the 2011 Outhear Festival. [embedit snippet=”spiral-network-release-agent-01″] Playing the Antenna is Dale Gorfinkle.

Loops and Fields: Series 4

2010 Freehand, Heide Museum of Contemporary Art, Melbourne,  2011  Invisible fields, Geographies of Radio Waves, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain http://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/past/page/3/exhibition/freehand/edate/2010-11-25/eid/177 Catalogue Entry  for Freehand: recent Australian drawing Loops and Fields,  is a collection of drawings that resonate sympathetically to the electromagnetic fields within the gallery. These graphite drawings function as graphic antennas and explore the qualities and inherent nature of a combination of hand-drawn and mathematically generated forms. Delving into algorithmic structures, fractals and the chaotic nature of the hand drawn line, these drawings are an exploration of conductive materials and the possibilities for drawing electronic components. When connected …

Purple Rain

2004, 26th Bienal de Sao Paulo – Image Smugglers in a free Territory, National Representation Australia, Sao Paulo, Brazil,  2005  Artspace, Sydney, Australia,  2006  Waves The 8th International Festival for New Media Culture ART+COMMUNICATION, Riga, Latvia,  2006  (in)visible sounds, Montevideo, The Dutch Institute for Time based Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands., 2007  V2 Zone, Act Interact, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan,  2008  Waves – The Art of the Electromagnetic Society,  PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Germany. Defiantly unstable, the noise over Purple Rain’s pristine mountain glitches, the transmission pumping through the ether at a rate backed by the combined transmission channel feed …

The Oscillators

1995 – Sound In Space: Australian Sound Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Comprised of conventional art materials pencil (graphite), paper and silver leaf these drawings are functioning interpretations of the circuit diagram of the electronic device the phase shift oscillator. Electricity generated by the Solar panel is fed directly into the drawing and the pencil marks, silver and paper are used to conduct, impede and collect electricity. All conventional electronic components except the  transistor and a piezo speakers have been replaced by the graphite drawings, connecting wires and silver leaf. The recording of this installation titled “the Oscillators” and …