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THIS THING 
2020

Prototype for new work.


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SELFLESS DRIVING CAR (in Development)
2019

prototpyping and testing of the Selfless Driving Car project. 

Exploring utopian ideas of the internet as a symbiotic system in a time when the virtual realm continues to penetrate our physical existence. Selfless Driving Car proposes a platform for a public experiment with very real world consequences - allowing anyone to vote on the position of my steering wheel in a moving vehicle.


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FARBEN LICHT SPIELE
2019

A modern recreation of Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack Farben Licht-spiele.
Comissioned for the Bauhaus Now touring exhibition


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FREE MUSIC MACHINES
2018

A reconstruction of Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross’s ‘Free Music Machines’.

Comissioned By the Grainger Museum, in collaboration with Rosalind Hall


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HEAVY METALS
2015

Built and Installed in an illegal mining town in the Amazon (Huepetuhe) Heavy Metals is a device which elevated an existing statue of a gold miner to an angelic silhouette using six mercury vapour lamps on automated wings.

Mercury evaporation in these mining procedures remains the most detrimental environmental concern despite vast deforestation. The bulbs used in this device use a gaseous mixture of vaporized mercury, mechanically rising and falling behind the statue, simulating the evaporation of mercury vapor from gold amalgam into the environment.


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BIG DIPPER (unit 1)
2014

The first unit of Big Dipper fabricated in Fort Kochi India.

As part of the KochiAIR residency.



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GOLDEN ORBS
2013

Golden Orbs is a permanent interactive light installation built in collaboration with artist Meagan Streader. The installation consists of a series of 10 interactive LED light clusters which hang from fractal-like, aluminium sculptures. Each sculpture, fitted with a webcam and microprocessor, monitors the space beneath for physical activity. When human movement is detected it is translated into an energy level which drives the intensity of the light sequence. The excitation of a single cluster raises the energy of those immediately adjacent via a wireless network; resulting in emergent behaviour and unique lighting patterns throughout the installation.


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CONCEPT 1
2012

Concept 1 presents a synthesized experience to plants via data gathered from plants. Solar powered accelerometers wirelessly relay the swaying motion of tree branches to corresponding kinetic sculptures which mimic the movements electro-mechanically. Each sculpture hosts its own micro environment of plant life atop its mechanical branch inside a terrarium. These plants are given an augmented experience of natural movements through the wind via organically captured data.



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VENUS
2012

Venus is metamorphic; melding organic structures and patterns with an articulate robot body. The sculpture is inspired by plant life, specifically the Venus fly trap. Embedded with an array of ultraviolet light sources the Venus is designed to attract flying insects and interact with them through sound and movement. The sculpture shifts and transforms according to the presence of movement (humans or insects).

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BITTER BENCH
2012

Bitter Bench was installed in a site where an old Brisbane city tram stop/shelter once was. Several years ago this heritage listed structure, which often sheltered homeless people, was removed in one of the council’s efforts to “clean up the city”. Illegally installed as a retaliation to the removal of the shelter this bench housed a proximity activated audio system playing prerecorded testimonials from homeless people who remember the past structure. The installation also contained a council plaque insinuating the new bench installation was mayor Campbell Newman’s penance to the homeless, yet the bench was articulated in a manner that made it impossible to use.


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UNTITLED SOUND PROJECT
2011

supplying electricity to organic material creates a resistance in current, almost all organic material is conductive to some degree. Untitled sound project is a minimal installation allowing users to connect a circuit at different stages by pressing keys, resulting in a tones specific to the resistance of each fruit or vegetable. Effectively playing organics from your local grocer, the project is informed by the controversial experiments recorded in ‘the secret life of plants’.


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THE COLOUR AXION
2011


The colour Axion is a device built to recognize a reality outside of empirical media. Radiating non-visible wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum to create a hypothetical new colour named after a hypothetical elementary particle; The Axion.

"Colour and light are the fundamental elements of observation; but as humans, aided by the use of technology and science, endeavor into ever more elaborate forms of exploration we find there is a multitude of realities beyond what is visible to us. Tiny particles, waveforms and magnetic fields - all basic elements of physics only made visible by experiments and theories. Begging the question of what constitutes an authentic experience of reality when so much goes unseen." - Me

*black and white images taken with Infrared sensitive film.


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CHAIR
2010

A user operated walking device, universal traveler remains stationary until a participant sits in it and operates the handles bringing 6 mechanical legs to life.


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BROCCOLI HANDSHAKE
2010

Broccoli Handshake brings to life over 800 incandescent bulbs. Simple triggers activate bulbs as spiraling terminals rotate to connect circuits.































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