In True Blue, Liam Benson is dressed in a pale blue ‘hoodie’ which conceals his hair and takes on the quasi religious aspect of a cowl. Behind is an austere backdrop of panelled wood grain veneer, a material that both suggests and encompasses notions of bush, suburbs and boardroom.
ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES ALAN VIZENTS, SLEEP AND AWAKE (1983) - 3-27 September 1987 4 monitor video installation DENIS DEL FAVERO AND FILEF, LINEA DI FUOCO (1987) - 31 August-4 October 1987
An intimate video self-portrait of my own personal interactions and experiences with a Karakuri Ningyo (traditional Japanese mechanical doll).
Wish4[0] is based on a poetic interpretation of the maxim “Be Careful What You Wish For”. The title of the work is a truncation – and linguistic reworking – of the idea of wish fulfilment in the digital age, one where willing users and audience members are subjected to an “always-on”...
animation
Video documentation of an action
Winner of the 2009 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney.
Documentation of an action High Definition video 16:9, colour, sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD, sound, 27:00 minutes Part 1 (a) 3:57 minutesPart 1 (b) 2:57 minutesPart 1 (c) 3:31 minutesPart 1 (d) 6:09 minutesPart 1 (e) 4:24 minutesPart 1 (f) 4:28 minutes
Tim Buchanan is currently creating virtual reality environments using devices such as the oculus rift. He begins the process by living intimately with A3 or larger scale paper material on his person for long durations (a week at the very least). After the set duration of living with the material,...
Berlin 2012 is a single channel video work that presents the walls of a train station from the view of a moving train. The work is a collaboration between myself and the artist and musician Advait Thakur, who grew up in Canberra and currently resides in the United States. I...
A Guided Tour to the Caves of Uranus 1974, colour, NTSC, video and sound synthesis, 23 mins. Performed: UCSD, 1975; Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles 1975; Clifton Hill Community Music Centre (CHCMC), Melbourne, 1976.
Danger Dance1978, PAL colour, sound.
Fatty Acid: The School of Cage 1975, b&w, NTSC. Performed: UCSD, 1975; documentary video tape in collaboration with Ronald Al Robboy and David Dunn, camera work by Ed Emshwiller, 45 mins.
Salt 81:80:631978, color PAL modified live video and synthesized sound. A realization of Alvin Lucier's "Queen of the South" perf. La Trobe Uni 1979 (6 mins)
Searching for Echoes at Launching Place1978, colour, sound, u-Matic videotape, 20 mins.
Shadowdrum 1977, colour, PAL, modified live video and timpani.Collaboration with John McCaughey, tape performed at:La Trobe Uni. 1978 (20 mins) (Available format: ¾ inch PAL U-matic master)
Slogans and Abstracts 1992, computer animation and music-videotape, or live computer with EGA colour monitor and EMU Proteus synthesizer.
Colour, PAL, video and sound synthesis tapes, 37 mins and 38 mins. Performed: Melbourne, 1977; La Trobe Uni, 1978; Sydney, 1979; Venice Biennale, 1980; New Music America Festival, Hartford, 1984
colour, NTSC, video and sound synthesis, 25 mins. Performed: UCSD 1975, CHCMC, Melbourne, 1976.
dual screen installation with drawings, 1984Roslyn Oxley Gallery Sydney (1984); “Correspondences” University Gallery Hobart (1984) A series of drawings from 1979 (when I was living in the Shepherd & Newman Warehouse in Darlinghurst, Sydney) are reworked as video imagery through a series of negative/positive video mattes and wipes. The same set...
installation incorporating video, 1986“Ohya Underground” Ohya Quarry, Utsonomiya, Japan (1986) A small field monitor was placed on a menhir-like structure built of three pieces of quarried stone in the cavernous space of the Utsonomiya quarry near Nikko, Japan. The looped hand-drawn imagery, which is CVI-generated, is of figures fleeing a burning...
