| Instant Replay: Performance Arcade (2018) |
Live audiovisual remix of all other artworks in the annual Performance Arcade festival. Audience interacted with the piece by casting shadows into the mix, which was projected onto a wall of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. |
| This Dream I Had: Museum of Transport and Technology (2017) |
Projection mapping onto one of the oldest houses in Auckland - MOTAT’s Engineers’ Cottage. |
| The Song Dispensary: Urban Dream Brokerage, Wellington, and Wanaka Festival of Colour (2017); The Performance Arcade, Wellington (2015) |
Participatory artwork, in collaboration with Hans Kellett (Berlin) and Jörg Hochapfel (Berlin, for the 2017 iterations). After a consultation, participants received a personalised song, written ‘to prescription’ and performed live for them. This artwork involved on-the-spot digital sampling/sequencing and also live looping with guitar, bass and keyboards. |
| Aura: Prague Quadrennial (2015) |
Robotics artwork selected to represent New Zealand at Prague Quadrennial 2015: a hand-built robot (human scale) with a gold-plated finish, constructed using 3D printing, hand-wired electronics, gilding and found/appropriated objects. Aura gestured/moved in interaction with the exhibition audience. The New Zealand exhibition at PQ15, Āhua o te Rangi, took place in the ornate Colloredo Mansfeld palace. |
| DJ3D14: Digital Art Live, Auckland (2014) |
Hybrid artwork comprised of interactive anaglyph 3D audiovisual content on a TV wall, an atmospheric soundscape, a hand-built robot with a 3D camera feed, and a panel of buttons for participants to trigger and control the video/audio content in real-time. Commissioned by Digital Art Live in conjunction with the Aotearoa Digital Arts symposium Mesh Cities. |
| Museum of Modern Activity (MoMA): Art gallery founder and curator (Jul-Dec 2012) |
Digital art exhibitions at radio station headquarters (projected onto street-level windows in Wellington CBD), and additional multimedia content available online on RadioActive.fm. I was solely responsible for this project, devising the initial concept, setting up the infrastructure for the gallery and curating 11 different exhibitions, representing the work of more than 30 New Zealand artists. Alongside the digitally exhibited content I also wrote/produced two print publications (exhibition catalogues). |
| Noir Désir: Various locations in Wellington (2013-2014) |
Series of five techno parties. Managed visual crew, devised robotics and interactive video projections, and performed as VJ. |
| Messed Up: RadioActive.fm (2012-2014) |
Weekly radio show. Messed Up specialised in mashups, bootlegs and remixes, founded by Felix Five and also co-hosted by DJ Forge and Tone-E. The show sustained a listenership of approximately 30-40000 people per week on FM radio (in Wellington), and 100000 online listeners per month. Regular performances during that period as DJ and VJ at various venues. |
| Breakfast Party at my Studio: Museum of Modern Art Oxford and artist's studio (2011) |
Webcast audiovisual artwork, performed live for two simultaneous audiences: a proximal audience in Wellington, and webcast live to an audience at Museum of Modern Art Oxford. Presented as part of the Remix Cinema workshop, hosted by Oxford Internet Institute (Oxford University). |
| UpStage Festivals: Festival co-curator (2008-2011) |
Annual festivals of cyberformance with venues around the globe, and a live online audience at www.upstage.org.nz. Co-curator from 2008-2010, in collaboration with Helen Varley Jamieson and Vicki Smith. Venues included zkmax (Munich), Norsk Telemuseum (Oslo), Museum of Science and Technology (Belgrade), APO33 (Nantes), Syneme (University of Calgary), and many others. |
| UpStage is a platform for the innovative artform of cyberformance (live online performance). The project team curated annual festivals of performances in UpStage from 2007 to 2012. Artists performed from various locations around the globe, and physical ʻnodeʼ venues operated simultaneously in a number of different cities. At the most recent festival that I co-curated, 101010, there were 17 shows by 50 different artists, and there were venues operating in 13 different cities around the world. |
| Stray Cinema: Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona (2011), and Ditch Bar, London (2007) |
Open source film project. Collaborated with project founder Michelle Hughes to co-produce the project from 2007 to 2011, holding screening events in London and Barcelona. The Barcelona event was held in conjunction with the Open University of Catalonia conference Cinema Obert. |
| HTTP Error 406: The Engine Room, Wellington (2010) |
Solo exhibition of robotics, installation and performance work, presented as part of doctoral research. |
| Another Lovely Daze: The Physics Room, Christchurch (2008) |
Audiovisual performance with vjRex in response to Jenny Gillam and vjRex’s installation artwork. |
| Séance for Nam June Paik: Event curator (2008) |
Screening/performance event, channelling the spirit of the 'father of video art'. Presented as part of the Physics Roomʼs public exhibitions programme (Christchurch), in conjunction with the Aotearoa Digital Arts symposium Tending Networks. |
| I Miss You, Great to See You Again: Goldsmiths, University of London (2007) |
Networked audiovisual piece (as part of the duo Anaesthesia Associates) for the conference Intimacy: Across Digital and Visceral Performance. I performed live in London, with my collaborator Paul Bradley broadcasting video in real-time from New Zealand. I also presented a paper at the Intimacy conference. |
| Intimacy and In.yer.face: Event curator (2006) |
Networked performance/installation event, with four simultaneous works taking place, all webcast live to a central site. Presented by Litmus Research Initiative (Wellington). |