Projects
Index
Animated Energies (2210- ) (External link. Use the 'back' button on your browser to return.)
How can animation be used to communicate knowledge of Antarctica as a system of energy connected to the global system?
Antarctic Animation (2007-2010) (External link. Use your browser back button to return.)
Gesture and line are used to combine climate change information with subjective responses to Antarctica. Animations and an exegesis are submitted (April 2010) for a PhD at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
A brief storyboard version of the thesis is published at hypertextopia.
Visualising data (2007)
Drawings are generated and read in preparation for animating scientific data.
Aboriginal Perspectives (2005-2006)
An online journal contains work towards a Diploma of Aboriginal Studies. The study, begun in 2005 at Eroa College (Redfern), is completed online (from London) in 2006, through the Open Training & Education Network (OTEN), Sydney.
Icemelt (2002-2006)
A scientific expedition to Antarctica leads me to consider how my arts practice might be used to communicate climate change information.
The Life and Death show (2002-2003)
A community arts project about the meaning of death grows from talks with the artist Jennifer Line about the September 11 disaster, the impending death of Jennifer's lifelong partner, the recent death of my mother, and my impending journey to Antarctica.
Roget's Circular (1999-2002)
The artist Melissa Smith and I travel through the lands of our respective forebears. We generate and collect material with which we compose an animated interactive thesaurus and art works for a touring exhibition.
A Little Skiting on the Side (2000)
Workshops and meetings with the Flinders Island community provide material with which to compose an animated interactive CD-ROM.
Terra Incognita (1993-1995)
Drawings, paintings, assemblages, and an interactive CDROM are made to visualise the creative process of Australian writer Carmel Bird. The work is accepted by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology as a Master of Arts research project.
Bitmap101 (1994)
A national exhibition of digital images, installations, and animations is staged at Gallery 101, Melbourne, to launch the 1994 Next Wave Festival.
Beware of Pedestrians (1994-1995)
An elemental digital form is made to animate expressions of human emotion.
Workshops (ongoing)
Drawing through movement is an essential part of my practice. Although this is primarily an individual activity, group workshops in this approach are sometimes offered.
Lisa Roberts (right), in Newtown, Sydney, November 2006. Photo: Rosie Green
The knowledge of historical continuity is one of man's most valuable steppingstones in his evolutionary progress. The purposeful accumulation of experiences can protect him from the repetition of mistakes, so that his creative power can gradually be saved for socially productive tasks. This productivity should be the alpha and omega of education, the translating of all the elements of learning into a creative sociobiological living ...
... Each generation differs from the preceding one in the determination of its task. The task of this generation is to search for its roots. It must try to understand the significance of natural functions so that everyone may become aware of the essential purpose of living: the preservation and refinement of the biological nature of the individual within a harmonious social existence.
Moholy-Nagy, L. (1956) p. 23-5, Vision in Motion, Paul Theobald and Company, Chicago
Is the task of our generation to reintegrate with the natural world? Is our essential purpose the preservation and refinement of humanity within a harmonious ecosystem?
