Animations 2012

Catalogue / Memoir
Introduction Pictures Objects Animations

ANIMATIONS are made from things I have made and found.

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2012. Customs House event, 14 Sept. Animation: Lisa Roberts. Dance: Caterina Mocciola & Ashley Macqueen. Music: VOA - Catriona Davies & Ben DeMole. Photo: Yvette Worboys.

This video shows an excerpt from Oceanic Living Data, the evolving animated installation launched at Rozelle School of Visual Arts, Sydney, 26 March 2012. Circling, spiralling and crossing lines combine scientific data and expressions of connection to suggest the world as an interactive living whole: sea levels rising, changing patterns of behaviour in some plants and animals, and alveoli opening up with a creature's first breath. Like a scientific model, the Oceanic Living Data installation evolves to reflect new and ancient knowledge that a healthy world maintains balance between its parts and that human actions are tipping the natural balance. Unlike a scientific model, this model can be touched. You can move through it and feel part of it.

Music: Sophie Celeste
Dance: Catherine Magill
Motion capture / animation: Lisa Roberts
Scientific data: Martina Doblin, Nick Kiraly

Oceanic Living Data 2012 Animated installation
Materials: Acrylic mesh, Steel, Digital animation
Size: Variable
Looping animation length: Variable
Photo: Phil Platch

A floating screen of plankton mesh, used to measure ocean health, is illuminated by animations.

This work was presented at Antarctic Treaty Consultative meetings and Sydney Science Festivals, 2012-2014, with in-kind support from the Australian Antarctic Division and University of Technology Sydney