The Joy of Books
Beautiful Volcanoes
Have a good trip..
Airports as seen from google earth are intriguing enough, but in his series ‘X-plantation Hubert Blanz has manipulated these aerial shots into weirdly stitched together mazes with odd perspective points, creating unsettling but fascinating industrial environments.
The Great Escape
Tim Etchells
Embroidered X-rays
Google taught me how to be human
My work in the Uncanny Valley show at Hardware Gallery, as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival.
Google taught me how to be human was made in response to an article about a ‘Germinoid’ – an incredibly humanistic robot. The article includes videos about the robot’s breathing scheme, making and shaking its hand, and its first smile. (view the article here)
In response to this, these mock instruction manuals use text and diagrammatic imagery taken from Google and Wiki-How, explaining how to carry out these actions that we consider entirely natural.
The instructions are layered over old circuit diagrams to put them in the same realm as mechanical or electronic processes and devices, creating a complex and contradictory merging of instinctive actions that don’t require teaching, and formulaic instructions.
By playfully treating second nature behaviours and instinctive concepts of social etiquette as mechanistic operations, this work insists that there are certain elements of human behaviour which cannot be expressed by machines, and questions the future possibilities of what it means to be human as we become increasingly dependant on technology.
Everything Ages Fast
How great is the alphabet.
By Alessandro Novelli:
Hollie Chastain
two dots
The Spider
A powerful animation by Juan Delcan. Animation created as a gift to Louise Bourgeois, the poem is from her friend Gabor Barabas. The music “I’ll read you a story” by Colleen, written by Cecile Schott (Use Courtesy of The Leaf label by arrangement with Woodwork Music.
Fred Eerdekens
Touch screen finger paintings
Uncanny Valley
I have work in this exhibition, opening 13th September at Hardware Gallery, Enmore. 
Space Oddity
william kentridge (is coming to melbourne next year)
Bundle of Nerves
Last Friday was the launch of Bundle of Nerves, the new collection from Canberra based fashion label Stranger Than Fiction, who I worked with to design the fabric prints for these striking garments. See more on Facebook here, and for stockists and more information, here.
Holocene, Bon Iver
Stunning video clip by Nabil
Markus Kison, pulse
Pulse (2008), by Markus Kison, is a physical data visualisation of emotions expressed through personal blogs. The heart shaped flexible form is based on Robert Plutchik’s Theory of Emotions – certain areas of the shape represent a specific emotion. It is then pulled into new directions according to when these emotions are referenced in blog posts. This project is similar to We Feel Fine, but is an interesting physical take on the idea.
SMS + paperplanes
I’ve used this analogy before so it’s awesome to find another work on the same idea. Christian Groß used Processing to make this visualisation of his long distance relationship. The folds and shape of the planes are dependant on the length of the message and the amount of emotional words, and they are laid out according to the time they were sent. I like how the content remains a mystery and it’s left to the multitude and coded variations of the planes to represent an intimate relationship.
