100407: the NOW now Surround

On Friday come and see some of our leading electronic lights in glorious 4.1 - field recordings to pure synthetic.
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the NOW now series 2007 #6: Surround sound at Lan Franchis
Alex Davies
Shannon O'Neill
Nick Mariette
Sumugan Sivanesan and Peter Neuman
Ben Byrne
Lanfranchis Memorial Discotheque 2/144 Cleveland St Chippendale
Entry by $8/$6 donation 8pm

121006: Pugilist Series 449 is being exhibitied at Platform, The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok

http://bangkokok.typepad.com/platform/

Venue: The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University
Dates: 23 Nov. - 16 Dec. 2006
Curators: Manuporn Luengaram, Dougal Phillips and David Teh
Artists: Udom Taepanich; Koichi Shimizu; Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr; Porntaweesak
Rimsakul; Duck Unit; Alex Davies (Aus); Ryan Griffith (Aus).

also...

Seminar: The Art of Documentation
Venue: The Art Center, Conference Room, Chulalongkorn University
Date: Thu, 7 December, 2006
Participants:Gridthiya Gaweewong, Wit Pimkanchanapong, Bundith Phunsombatlert,
Alex Davies, Josef Ng, Samantha Culp, Pratarn Teeratada. (TBC)
Convenor Theerada Suphaphong (Thailand Researcher, Asia Art Archive)
& Contact: theerada [at] aaa.org.hk or Tel: 081-637 4567

Event: Platform Live
Venue: The Art Center, Conference Room, Chulalongkorn University
Date: Fri, 8 December, 2006
Artists: Koichi Shimizu; Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr; Duck Unit (2 artists);
Alex Davies (Aus); Ryan Griffith (Aus).

061006: Website Update -Flutter added to installation section.
Documentation from Artspace exhibiion and audio content available...

Flutter is a multi – channel sound installation concerning the dynamics of communication between individuals in physical and social space. Comprised of an array of 16 speakers located through the gallery, the work presents several thousand recordings of individuals aged from six to sixty playing the children’s game ‘Chinese whispers.’ Messages are passed from one individual to the next, progressively evolving over time as a diversity of interpretation colours the transmissions.

061006: AsiaLink Residency Thailand

From December 2007 I will be based at Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts undertaking a research residency fro several months...

021006: Re:search / Art collaboration of Australia and Japan
Two works are being exhibited. Swarm, and a new video installation, Conversations.

Sendai Mediatheque
26th November - 25th December 2006
10:00am - 19:00pm
6 Floor Gallery

021006: SEMINAR ON DISLOCATION

UNSW College of Fine Arts
Corner of Oxford Street and Greens Road
Paddington, NSW 2021

Media Arts: Practices and Theories
(combined SAHT and SOMA postgraduates)
Date: Friday October 6th
Time: 11:30am–5pm
Venue: Elwynn Lynn Conference Centre
Program:
11:30 - 12:15pm:
Tim Barker (PhD)
Title: "The Digital in Duration: Toward a Temporal Aesthetic Theory of
Interactivity within New Media".
12:30 - 1:15pm:
Anita Bacic (MFA)
PLEASE NOTE - we will visit Kudos Gallery for this presentation where
Anita has work exhibited.
Title:"Ringa Raja: The cultural familiar and unfamiliar explored in
virtual
space"
Lunch: 1:15–2pm
2:–2:45pm: Alex Davies (PhD)
Title: "Recent Works: Responsive Installations"
2:45–3:30pm: Ian Gwilt (PhD)
Title: "Untitled Media: Toward a 'Taxonomy' of New Media Arts"
3:30 - 3:45pm Short set up break
3:45 - 4:45pm: Anna Munster and Andrew Murphie (Media, Film and Theatre,
UNSW) present:
"ACT - assemblage for collective thought".
This is a live VJing and Djing performance concerned with new media, new
forms of conceptual production and new modes of collaboration.

Two Day Bender, Circuit Bending Workshop
Nick Wishart and Alex Davies take you through integrating circuits with software and sensors to build the worlds most artistically challenged burglar alarm! Places are limited please register. Email electrofringe@electrofringe.net with "Bent Break In" in the subject.

Sunday 01-10-2006
from 11:00 to 15:00
TAFE Workshed

080606: DISLOCATION

Dislocation is being exhibited at FACT Liverpool UK in Experimenta Under the Radar. 16th June - 28th August

FACT
(Foundation for Art & Creative Technology)
88 Wood Street, Liverpool, UK
T: +44 (0) 151 707 4444

010506: FLUTTER @ Artspace, Sydney Australia

Flutter is a multi – channel sound installation concerning the dynamics of communication between individuals in physical and social space. Comprised of an array of 16 speakers located through the gallery, the work presents several thousand recordings of individuals aged from six to sixty playing the children’s game ‘Chinese whispers.’ Messages are passed from one individual to the next, progressively evolving over time as a diversity of interpretation colours the transmissions.

Opening 6pm Thursday 11th May, 2006
Exhibiting 12-27 May

a r t s p a c e
43 - 51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011 Australia
t: +61 2 9368 1899
f: +61 2 9368 1705

100306: WHAT SURVIVES

What Survives @ Performance Space, Sydney
Opening Friday 24th March - 5.30 pm
24th March - 22nd April
http://performancespace.com.au/eventdetail.php?event=86

Consisting of three major gallery-based sound installations and a program of commissioned works for two sound stations in the building, What Survives explores the real and imagined remnants of human presence in architecture.
The structures we build bear silent witness to human behaviour—what have the walls, beams and girders absorbed and what sonic secrets can be coaxed back out of them? Does this ephemeral material influence the energy of the spaces we inhabit? Taking inspiration from Rilke, What Survives conveys the indestructibility of energy and its subsequent transformations and manifestations.
GUEST CURATOR Gail Priest
GALLERY ARTISTS Nigel Helyer, Jodi Rose & Alex Davies
SOUND STATION ARTISTS Garry Bradbury, Joyce Hinterding, Aaron Hull, Somaya Langley, Amanda Stewart & Sumugan Sivanesan
ARTIST TALK Saturday 25th March, 2-4pm
GUEST SPEAKER Densil Cabrera, Coordinator of The Graduate Audio Design Program in the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney
VENUE: Performance Space Galleries (199 Cleveland St Redfern)

100306: SPACE INVADERS

Space Invaders
Galley 4A
Opening Thursday 23rd March -6.30 pm
23rd March - 22nd April
http://www.4a.com.au/

The Half Dozen Artist-Run Initiative presents new installation and new media work by local emerging artists. The works address spatiality,
inflated and modular architectures, tele-presence, and the spectral effects of new media.

In Alex Davies' Pugilist Series 449, the viewer is put into the place of a boxer facing down a space-invading opponent, as a POV beating takes place, sped up and sped down with location sound as the artist takes the punches.
Sam Smith's Passage, projected onto a large scale installed chair, Passage gives the sense of an in-flight viewing experience. The work explores how we inhabit new media spaces, drawing on film history, the experience of the cinema, and the technical vocabulary of new media production. Three installation artists have installed work in the main gallery.
Koji Ryui presents a large-scale modular sculpture of intersecting white planes which impressively fills the volume of the space. Alongside Ryui's work, Biljana Jancic inflates everyday mundane plastic bags and constructs them into a poetic and free-flowing sculptural assemblage. On the main wall, Suzan Liu has installed a complex and ornamental wall-work which turns networking cables into a unique physical narrative of connectedness. In the downstairs project space, Mimi Tong is showing her Folding Interface, which challenges gallery space in the form of art materials, bent, stretched and reconfigured into a folded architectonic maze, as if the art object is mutating and repossessing the gallery space.

100306: GRUDGE MATCH

Grudge Match
Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne
10th March - 8th April
http://www.gertrude.org.au/exhibition.php?id=528

Alex Davies vs Angelica Mesiti, Matthew Tumbers vs Gotaro Uematsu, Bennett Miller vs Pete Volich. Curated by Tania Doropoulos.
Grudge Match: Game On
Presented as a part of Next Wave 2006.

Imagine an arena. A grand event… Artists battling. Art against art. Artist against artist. Art against artist. Art against sport in a contemporary Australian climate. An art event to coincide with a Commonwealth Games.
For Grudge Match, young curator Tania Doropoulos has paired six artists together, to battle each other via artistic intervention. The selected artists have developed new artworks in opposition or collaboration with each other in an explosive space, where concepts and aesthetics are faced off in a creatively challenging environment. This process effectively turns the artist’s studio into a sporting arena, where two artistic positions fight for dominance, or two voices seek synergy through collaboration.
Grudge Match considers the politics of sport and art, and the production and reception of both in contemporary Australia: the way sport is inherently dominant in our culture, and how as a cultural tool, art locates a position amongst a broader Australian audience.
Grudge Match exists somewhere between competition and collaboration - between the practice of one artist and another. It considers the shifts between individualism and collectivism, the disciplines of the lives of artists and the lives of athletes, the ideas of the watchers against the watched, the leaders against the followers and the athlete/artist as spectacle. The resulting exhibition explodes into the space, occupying the walls, floor, ceiling and in-between spaces of Gertrude’s Main Gallery with an intensely playful energy. Grudge Match: Game On is the fourth in a series of exhibitions by emerging curators at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. Presented in association with the 2006 Next Wave Festival. Grudge Match: Game On is supported by ArtsWA and NAVA.

220605: Upcoming Audio/Visual performance at disorientation on the 29.06.05

featuring...
Wake Up and Listen
Philosophigas
Alex Davies
Organism_b
+ dj Corporal Leper

29 June 2005, 8pm-11pm
Abercrombie Hotel
Cnr Broadway & Abercrombie St
Sydney
Entry: $7/$5

210605: Currently in production of a new installation DisLocation for the exhibition, Vanishing Point taking place on the 2nd September 2005. For further updates check http://experimenta.org.

How does the presence of others, real or imagined, trigger distinct emotional responses?
How much are we really aware of our immediate surroundings as constructed realities?
To what extent are our senses conditioned to interpret situations?
DisLocation is a mixed reality installation that extends the bounds of sound and image technology to construct and manipulate truths through illusion. The work examines how physical and emotional responses can be induced by controlled artificial environments.

200605: If anyone is lurking around Canberra on the 25.06.05, I am giving a presentation at the National Galley of Australia.

Fullscreen05: explorations in digital media
Artist Alex Davies discusses his audiovisual installations
James O Fairfax Theatre 2.00 pm

More information about the event <here>

200505: Recombinant Void is being screened at Simultran Experimental Video/Sound Festival

26.05.2005, 19:00 h
100seconds – short videos - presentation
place: “Csiky Gergely” Hungarian Theatre - Timisoara, Romania
(str. Alba Iulia nr. 2)

090404: Interactive Installation d r i f t will be presented at The International Symposium of Electronic Arts between August 14th-22nd 2004, on a boat travelling between Helsinki, Stockholm and Tallinn ( http://isea2004.net)

Appearing in the familiar guise of a sightseeing telescope, d r i f t will offer a perspective of the ISEA ferry journeys that is very different to our immediate visual apprehension. Panning the telescope not only changes its view in space but also in time. The viewer is able to navigate back and forward along the course of the ferry and explore the past, shared experiences of people traveling together across the sea. Depending on the orientation of the viewing assembly the user is able to manipulate the temporal properties of the space. This fluid and elastic manipulation of time in a panoramic visual display alters individuals’ perceptions of the journey by being able to examine aspects of the past in significant detail.

060404: Swarm will be presented at the Australian Center for Moving Image (ACMI) From the 8th June 2004.

Swarm presents individuals with an evolving audio visual environment in which the audience themselves are drawn in as fragments in an ever changing mediascape. The work focuses on the dynamics of the live surrounding environment as a basis for subsequent acquisition and manipulation of data. Individuals are tracked as they move within the space and subsequently sucked into the image plane. The behaviour of the ever increasing database of phantoms shifts from swarms of activity to lingering solitary movements.Sounds swell and recede in unison with the ebb and flow of the imagescape. Although individuals only inhabit the physical space for a transient period, their presence echo’s temporally as they re-appear in the environment as neurotic shifting fragments in space.

The exhibition will feature a multi-disciplinary survey of new Australian work created between 2002 and 2004, including approximately 120 artists exhibiting across 5 sites (Screen Gallery; ACMI Screen Lounges; Online; SBS; NGV:A) from Federation Square, Victoria from June 8th, 2004

020304: An evening of Surround Sound Audio....
Five artists performing 5.1 multi channel surround sound works:
Date: 2nd April 2004
Time: 8:00 PM >>>
Location: Lanfranchi's
2/144 Cleveland St
Chippendale 2008
Cost: 5 performers for $5.00 (Shop round, you can't beat that...)

Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox
Alex Davies
Julian Knowles
Sam Smith
Daniel Heckenberg

080204: Music Release on the Clan Analogue CD Defocus

Three years in the making, Defocus brings together a hugely diverse collection of low resolution electronic productions from artists across Australia. Anti-production, incidental noise, low bit-rate recordings and analogue tape dropouts make sporadic appearances throughout the release, resulting in a CD that invites listeners to question their received notions of electronic production and to locate the sound inside the error messages.

for more infomation and sales go to:

http://www.clananalogue.org/index.php?fuseaction=release_details&sec=01&catnum=CA032

020204: work rest play (escape)
IMPERIAL SLACKS COLLECTIVE

Exhibition Opening 6pm
Thursday 5th February
continuing until 28 February 2004 a r t s p a c e
43 - 51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011 Australia
[opp. Harry's Cafe de Wheels]Gallery Hours
Tues - Sat 11am - 5pm
t: +61 2 9368 1899
f: +61 2 9368 1705
e: artspace@artspace.org.au
http://www.artspace.org.au/2004/02/slack.html
http://imperialslacks.com

WORK, REST, PLAY (ESCAPE)
Imperial Slacks collective present an environment that questions the possibilities and failings of collective and alternative living. A key objective of this theoretical Imperial Slacks kibbutz-Hilton is the synthesis of work, rest and play into one stream of delimited activity. These various social modes will be networked through a perverse arrangement of natural, domestic, sporting and recreational materials. The "Slackers" speculate upon a design for living that will physically and symbolically suspend the function of these familiar materials and relationships in order to offer new hybridised and esoteric formations. This constructed environment is intended to continue a development of its own language, rituals and beliefs against a variety of conflicting forces external to the group.The potential for this model of creative cohabitation to nomadically uproot and fragment is a great disappointment to utopian thought, Vogue Living, Ikea, Better Homes and Gardens (and our mums). In doing so, the model escapes its own physical and social architecture in favour of new manifestations: at worst, another institutional "test site", at best, a group pod somewhere else, sometime soon.

IMPERIAL SLACKS COLLECTIVE
Imperial Slacks collective formed in 2000 in Surry Hills, Sydney in response to a need to continue the activities of the artist-run-space Herringbone Gallery. The collective is made up of resident artists and friends from the studios that surrounded the exhibition space. The Imperial Slacks collective ran the gallery until late 2002, supporting curated exhibitions, sound events and performance projects from local and international artists. During that time, the group exhibited annually, producing 18 is enough, Imperial Alliance, Positive Overkill and Period (an exchange project with Blaugrau artistrun- space). The gallery project terminated with Slacking Off, opening up the live-in spaces for an expanse of mini-exhibitions from invited and resident artists. Work, Rest, Play (Escape) is the collective's first collaboration since leaving the Surry Hills space.

280703: Filter Feeder is being exhibited at the Primavera Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,

Filter Feeder is a multichannel sound installation in which textures, dynamics and motion of sound are controlled by a fish. The creature navigates through the electromagnetic spectrum drawing fragments of sound into the physical environment.

Dates: September 17, 2003 to November 30, 2003
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, Circular Quay West, The Rocks, Sydney.

200703: Two presentations coming up in August at Garage Festival, Stralsund, Germany. Heterodyne is being shown from 25.07 till the 03.08 and a Dolby 5.1 channel, AnchortronicSurround Sound performance will take place on the 27.07 @ 9.00 PM

Heterodyne: A multi-channel sound installation in which the public enter a space void of light and are enveloped by four discreet channels of pure sine tones ranging from 20 Hz to 500 Hz. Heterodyne explores the psycho-physiological interaction between humans and the acoustic environment.

Anchortronic: Dolby Digital is a digital cinema sound system that works with up to 5 absolutely discreet channels (left, middle, right, right surround, left surround). Additionally, there is a separate subwoofer-channel that is called the low frequency effects channel. This is why it is called a 5.1 surround system. A special focus lies on the use of the system as an extension of the musical and dramaturgical instruments; the reduction to pure effect is to be avoided. We introduce in cooperation with Anchortronic Linz several projects in this context and invite artists to work with this system. Different approaches and positions will be presented in a concert performance.

You can download the full festival programme <here> 173KB .pdf

Garage 7 : Festival Fur kunst music und Film 25.07 - 16.08 2003, Stralsund, Germany.

040603: Upcoming Exhibition @ Artspace, Sydney. Opening 6pm Thursday 19 June - 12 July 2003

Swarm presents individuals with an evolving audio visual environment in which the audience themselves are drawn in as fragments in an ever changing mediascape. The work focuses on the dynamics of the live surrounding environment as a basis for subsequent acquisition and manipulation of data. Individuals are tracked as they move within the space and subsequently sucked into the image plane. The behaviour of the ever increasing database of phantoms shifts from swarms of activity to lingering solitary movements.Sounds swell and recede in unison with the ebb and flow of the imagescape. Although individuals only inhabit the physical space for a transient period, their presence echo’s temporally as they re-appear in the environment as neurotic shifting fragments in space. Click <here> for a flyer...

ARTSPACE
43-51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011 Australia
T 61 2 9368 1899

030603: The hideous 'Ice Ice Bacon' remix has finally been released on the 'Ministry of Shit' bootleg compilation. Get a copy of this delighful album < here> at spasticated records for the paltry sum of $8 USD or $16 AUD....

another happy customer mark n states
'...when I heard Ice-Ice Bacon I laughed so hard I nearly vomitted. I've sold most of the ones I was sent already on that track alone....'

020603:  You can now get a copy of the delightful DVD : Anchortronic - 5.1. Laboratory For Updating Experimental Sound
I have two 5.1 surround sound pieces on the disk. For more information go to the Time's Up Anchortronic Site. In addition to the 5.1 AC3 sound that requires a home cinema setup there are stereo binaural encoded mix's that recreate the surround audio

You can purchase the disk through staalplaat, the publisher <here>

180203: Well...after quite some time have added new video content 'ronald' under the film and video section and video documentation of the Live AV performance that took place at electrofringe 2002 can be found in the performance section.

021002: Judgment Bar Jukebox interview from Cyclic Defrost Magazine is up online. The introduction is well worth a read... http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/article.php?article=49

021002: Reflux documentation available in the 'installations' section. download and enjoy someone else's memories!

290702: Filter Feeder is being shown in a rather butchered form @ artspace this wednesday night 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm 31st july. the exhibition concluds on the 17 th of august.
Artspace, 43 - 51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo NSW 2011, Australia

220702: Look Mum No Head a haunted ride of performance installations. Friday 2nd August. Imperial Slacks Gallery 2/111 Campbell St Surry Hills.

050702: Filter Feeder docmentation is finally up!...Have a peruse in the installations section....as is TCE documentation...

060502: T r a n s C o d e c E x p r e s s - Its not a bug Its a feature. Time's Up

An invitation to an audiovisual composition night in the net. The shortest way to connect East- West is the net. Comprehension problems and transmission errors are here, as elsewhere, pre- ordained. We use these “errors” as the starting point for TransCodecExpress. The transnationally exchanged data are taken and expanded with audio and visual information and placed in the physical space of the venue - the visitors in the O. K Mediendeck will not be confronted with small screens, rather thay will duck behind the screen to be in the virtual performance space reflected in the physical space. The evening focusses upon the interplay of the physical and the virtual.

060602 : 20:30 : O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst - Download PDF for detailed project information

260502: Next Sound / Video performance will take place at What is Music Festival, Wed 24 July 2002 at the Roma Room, Sydney

250502: The interactive installation reflux will be exhibited in an group exhibition entitled Childhood. 3rd to 14th July 2002. First Draft Gallery, Sydney Australia.

reflux is an interactive installation in which users engage with a childs doll. The lifeless object slowly obtains memories as different users describe their first childhood memory to the doll. These collective memories, however, slowly become more fragmented and decay as time progresses providing an evolving memory scape.

250502: Got married to 80 people in Linz, Austria. hmmmm.....

240402: FilterFeeder Exhibition @ Kunstraum Goethestrasse - Opening 7th May 2002 @ 20:00

filter feeder - n. an aquatic animal that traps and removes food particles from a current of water passing through its body.
Join Carassius auratus auratus for a delightful excursion as it swims through oceans of atmospheric sound. Navigating through waves of sound the fish generates a turbulent symphony.
Filter Feeder is a multichannel sound installation in which textures, dynamics and motion of sound are controlled by a fish.

KUNST RAUM GOETHESTRASSE Goethestrasse 22 4020 Linz fon: 0732 65 13 46 16 fax 0732 65 13 46 18 kunstraum@servus.at http://www.KunstRaum.at

210202: sonic displacements will be exhibited @ kunstraum, linz austria. opening night friday 1st of march 2002. http://www.kunstraum.at/

170202: Finished an audio remix of Kim Cascone's Parasite series. It can be downloaded here <3.1mb> or from the sound|music section. This and a variety of other parasite remixes can be found on the microsound site here

140202: Substantial update to the current projects : spin section of the site with added images, video, and texts in relation to the work undertaken september > december 2001.

100202: Site update with performance section added which currently details machine performance with triclops international @ Big Day Out 2002.

040202: Depraved Melodies added to the film section of the site. new content will be added soon after further experiments in nato modular. Early experiments in macromedia director have been added to interactive section in which individuals can test their skill at physiognomy speculation.