Transmission ring explores overlooked moments in city environments, reclaiming potentially missed signals within our ‘noise’-filled environments. Acknowledging and embracing the unique interactions that take place between objects/people, movement/vision and sound/vibration, this film occurs between the signals, objects, bodies and territories that are located amongst city...
a.k.a. Synopsis: a.k.a. — “also known as”, an alias, a front, a smokescreen. This short video poses the question: how will we respond when the day of universal surveillance arrives? The answer is simple: never be the same person twice. production details title: a.k.a. video by: Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski...
Beneath the surface of this banal domestic world runs a parallel interior zone populated with inspirited objects. This subterranean zone could be interpreted in many ways: a catalogue of dread, a cabinet of memories, an archive of fantasies. Occasionally, you stumble through a ‘leaky border’ into...
land[sound]scape, is a video and sound installation by starrs & cmielewski, curated into the third Guangzhou Triennial, China, that opened on 6th September 2008.
Moving Graffiti is a stop motion animation that depicts a hand drawn map of the Shoalhaven River, morphing into an Australian Bass fish leaping out of the river. The Bass are in decline due to weirs and dams blocking migration on most of our rivers. Tallowa Dam...
This DVD draws on the style of karaoke, creating a new version of the iconic Kraftwerk song, Pocket Calculator. Much of the video footage was shot by the artist in Tokyo during a three month artist residency in 2001. The work was produced to be included in The...
A phone number is displayed on a large screen in a public space along with the instruction “sms your family origins”. Participants sms their own and their parents places of birth to this number and linked curved vectors are added to a public map that updates in real time...
The Verdant Shed is a night-time video projection piece where the long dead trees that are the posts supporting the old shearing shed (now the Study Centre) appear to come to life, sprouting branches and leaves that sway in the wind. This refers to both the ...
Sydney Harbour! Gorgeous blue water, glittering city skyline, exclusive ‘dress circle’ suburbs, lovely fresh ocean air. However commercial fishing has been banned in Sydney harbour because the marine life is considered toxic. Recreational fishing is extensive, but fish caught on the Western side of the Harbour...
Screener for Stelarc - The Body is Obsolete distributed online worldwide by Contemporary Arts Media:http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=220Code: KD-Stel
Baby Please Don’t Go casts a small fragment of a scene from the film ‘Apocalypse Now’ into a seemingly endless loop. It shows Martin Sheen’s character moving backwards and forwards in a methodical, trance-like dance to a Led Zeppelin song.
Gold Medal Performance is a digitally altered video of champion figure skaters Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov’s gold medal winning performance at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Art and sport can both be seen as displays of virtuosic human skills; while sporting skill is measurable in distance, accuracy and speed,...
Darren Sylvester is well known for his cool, pop culture-savvy photographs but in recent years he has also begun to work in video, a medium that allows him to explore his love of music. In the video installation, I Was The Last in The Carpenter’s Garden, Sylvester recreates Karen and...
Video installation: dual channel projection, custom cylindrical sanlunche, CAD ABS Tower.
Single Channel Animated DVD, Infinite Loop
