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Drawing Machines Synthesis Writing

Drawing Synthesis, Object Synthesis, Spatial Synthesis (2021)

The synthesizer was invented in the 1960s and yet its paradigmatic place in our society and culture remains under-appreciated. This project involves creating drawing, sculpture and installation work that gives the viewer/listener an embodied understanding of the functioning of synthesizer modules.

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Audio Control Drawing Machines

Drawing With Ocean (2017-2020)

The idea behind these works is to create drawings by collaborating with energies produced by the subject of the work (in this case the ocean). In this way the subject can also be an agent that helps to create the work. I think of this engagement with the agency of elemental forces like the ocean…

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Podcasts

A conversation about drawing with Joyce Hinterding

On 21 February 2019 I had the great pleasure of chatting with Joyce Hinterding for a couple of hours about her drawing work.

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Audio Control Drawing Machines

Drawing Song (2017-2019)

In this series of works I control a drawing machine with a stereo audio signal. In the video below the right channel of audio controls the longer x-axis with the left channel controlling the shorter y-axis. I control the machine by singing a constant note which helps me to gain a little more control over…

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Podcasts

Art, autopoiesis, biology, consciousness and psychedelics | In conversation with Jason Tuckwell

This is a conversation that I had with my friend Jason Tuckwell about his work and our shared interests. The title of this post gives you some sense of the ground that we cover across the three parts of this conversation.

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Writing

Forest City Essay

I wrote this essay on biological fitness and ecology for the Sydney Review of Books.

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Podcasts Writing

Aphid Hour: a podcast companion to an essay on Donna Haraway

The idea is to get some sense of the complexity of ecological forces that are operating on the aphid and that shape its evolution in various ways.

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Drawing Machines In Circulation laser works

Grasping Light (2016-2017)

Grasping Light is a work in two parts; a laser on paper drawing and a video that documents how the drawing was made. On another level Grasping Light is an attempt to understand all of the materials involved in producing the work as a whole.

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Film

Mental Places: a conversation with Gerald Murnane

I shot and edited this little doco on Gerald Murnane in the second half of 2014. Gerald Murnane is a writer who has a particularly idiosyncratic take on what fiction is and how to go about writing it.

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Podcasts Talks

An Ethics of Diversity: Art, Ayahuasca and Microbial life

This is a talk that I gave on Friday 1 April 2016 as part of the seminar series at the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University.