Living things as raw material for Making Sense of Data

Posted on 2012/12/20 by Lisa Roberts

From: Australian Network for Art and Technology the ANAT Digest :: 20 December 2012 ———————————————————— ** ANAT News ———————————————————— Echology: Making Sense of Data :: Winning Artists Announced ANAT and Carbon Arts are pleased to announce the winners of the … Continue reading →

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Choreography inspired by Bodenwieser

Posted on 2012/12/19 by Lisa Roberts

The Knell is a dance choreographed by Barbara Cuckson who was a student of Gertrud Bodenwieser. The dance was performed this month at the Rozelle School of Visual Arts. Dancers (L-R): Lisa Roberts, Kathryn Reynolds, Margaret Cuckson Pianist: Victoria Klimenko … Continue reading →

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Motion Capture of primal gestures

Posted on 2012/12/19 by Lisa Roberts
Caterina Mocciola

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Reconstructing choreography

Posted on 2012/12/19 by Lisa Roberts
Motion capture image of Jochen Roller

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Choreographer Jochen Roller experiments with Motion Capture technology at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Today I worked in the UTS Motion Capture studio with Jason Benedek. Jason’s official title is Production Manager of Postgraduate Design and ‘Primal’ is the … Continue reading →

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Being in the world

Posted on 2012/11/30 by Lisa Roberts

Yesterday I attended a seminar at UTS by visiting German biophysicist Alfred Holzwarth. He discussed the theory that  photosynthesising organisms (such as algae) cope with excessive daytime heat with ‘quenching’ mechanisms within their cellular membranes. After the presentation he said … Continue reading →

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Animal motion capture

Posted on 2012/11/13 by Lisa Roberts
spiral out. Motion-captured 3D object

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  Primal forms describe living systems and feelings of connection to them. They work as connectors between scientific and sensory understandings. Human movement attracts attention. It relates to our experience. We can imagine dancing and drawing the forms and remember … Continue reading →

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Dance up country

Posted on 2012/11/11 by Lisa Roberts

Welcome back the river is the article in the 100th edition of the Australian Geographic magazine that most caught my eye. The mag was distributed freely at last Tuesday’s breakfast forum with Paul Ehrlich and Dick Smith at UTS.

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Connecting to grow

Posted on 2012/11/10 by Lisa Roberts
Oceanic Sydney, Customs House. L-R: Me, Ben DeMole, Catriona Davies, Caterina Mocciola, Ashley Macqueen

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  As I begin to review the impacts Living Data, questions open up about identity that are hopefully of more than academic interest: Regardless of our different beliefs, can we more readily identify as parts of the same physical reality … Continue reading →

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Artists’ models

Posted on 2012/11/04 by Lisa Roberts

11 June 2012 What happens when you take scientific data out of the lab and turn it into art? Artists Tom Corby, Gavin Baily and Jonathan Mackenzie, and polar scientist Nathan Cunningham asked that question, and the result was Southern … Continue reading →

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Illuminating light

Posted on 2012/10/31 by Lisa Roberts

                          Oceans cover 70% of the planet’s surface and are constantly at work moderating and balancing the biosphere in ways that allow all life to flourish – critical … Continue reading →

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