We are living at the bottom of an ocean of air. Ecologist and artist Ramon Guardans, teams up with artists Tega Brain and Kirsty Boyle to do some micro meteorology while on the SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens residency in New Plymouth.
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From the Bottom of an Ocean of Air – Tega Brain, Kirsty Boyle, Ramon Guardans
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Where was the Wind? – Ramon Guardans
During the SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens creative residency, Artist and Scientist Ramon Guardans took an air sample at the same time each day of the two week residency, sealing and placing it within a growing installation for the project. These captured air samples were traced in time using the NOAA HYSPLIT model to reveal their [...]
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light, sweet, cold, dark, crude_Aotearoa (2011)
This microevent consists of live video and audio based on underground water movement in Pukekura Park. The artists have been exploring its water flows and this understanding
will impact the video and audio they perform. Fernery House 1, Thursday Jan 27th, 21h-22h.
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Remnant Breath – Keith Armstrong and Leah Barclay
Leah Barclay (AU) and Keith Armstrong (AU) (as part of Remnant/Emergency Artlab/SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens) invite you to an immersive sound walk on the Te Henui Walkway this Wednesday 26th January. The work invites an acute sensitisation to this place solely through the often ignored senses of sound. The 20 minute experience reveals remnant sonic [...]
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Plume update: ‘PLUME: 4000 Varieties of Orange’ Raewyn Turner & Brian Harris
Emerging from PLUME, Raewyn Turner and Richard Newcomb, is a work in progress 4000 Varieties of Orange by Raewyn Turner and Brian Harris. This new work explores the idea that humans living in cultures have a distinct smell–which indicates that the smell of the food we eat, the flavour and fragrances may flow into the [...]
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Areosphere and Atmosphere – Nina Czegledy and Janine Randerson
In the era of increased scientific debate about the terraforming of Mars (a process of chemical warming of the frozen Martian climate) in order to sustain a future human population, the Areosphere and Atmosphere project enacts a sensorial connection between Earth and Mars.
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Screening: Areosphere and Atmosphere
The debut launch of ‘Areosphere and Atmosphere’ will take place as a late night screening event at the New Plymouth observatory, Marsland Hill, New Plymouth. A double audio-visual projection including an experimental sound composition will be played on the dome.
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Live Food Café – Dhyana Beaumont
Using bike pedal-powered smoothie blenders and various food-foraging expeditions, Dhyana creates a connecting device between the power of fresh nutrient-rich food, and the pragmatic politics of finding or growing sources of fresh food today.
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Pollinator Frocks – Update
This update makes public a series of short experimental videos that develop the ‘Pollinator Frocks’ project (prototype clothing designed to attract and feed endangered pollinating insects). The three video shorts are works in progress and are representative of ‘process led’ research and practice currently in progress in New Plymouth, NZ as part of the SCANZ: Eco Sapiens 2011 residency, public events and exhibition.
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PLUME – Raewyn Turner and Richard Newcomb
In this project artist Raewyn Turner and nanobiotechnologist Richard Newcomb focus on the unconscious perception of the human plume — the scents and particles we all shed behind us in the form of a wake. Research shows that the plume may include emotional state information. If this is true, what impact might the many new synthetic flavours being created have on our reading of the emotional signals of our everyday lives?
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