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sensesurround

Exhilarating sensory environments by renowned Australian and international media artists that immerse the viewer.

Thursday 7 October - Sunday 7 November 2004

Curated by Alessio Cavallaro.

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granular synthesis: modell 5

The 'choir of cyborgs' in Modell 5 surrounds, immerses and overwhelms the senses with massive subsonic sound and penetrating light frequencies. The awesome scale and perceptual rush of this extreme audio-visual performance will leave you speechless.


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granular synthesis: form

A performance by dancer Michael Ashcroft is interspersed with intense colour frames and magnified video grain to create an exhilarating collision of opposites: presence and absence, light and dark, positive and negative, image and after-image.


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david pledger and jeffrey shaw: eavesdrop

Presented in a 360-degree cinematic environment, Eavesdrop provides new experiences of interactivity. The user becomes the director who navigates through the screen and narrative space to reveal the secrets embedded in the interconnected stories.


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jon mccormack

Strongly influenced by the new science of Artificial Life and the mediation of nature through technology, Jon McCormack is an acclaimed digital media artist and one of the few artists who develops his work primarily through writing computer software.


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sensesurround artist forum

Join Jon McCormack, David Pledger, Jeffrey Shaw and Ulf Langheinrich (from Granular Synthesis) as they discuss their work, and its place in the SenseSurround exhibition. Each presentation is followed by a Q&A.


 
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