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| recent news | |
| Embracing Innovation at CraftACT | (Apr 2011) |
| A new generative fabrication work - Local Colour - is being shown at an exhibition called Embracing Innovation, showing at Craft ACT until May 7. | |
| Written Images | (Oct 2010) |
| My work will be featured in the upcoming a Written Images project - a generative print-on-demand art book. | |
| TEDxCanberra | (Oct 2010) |
| I'm speaking at TEDxCanberra - Saturday 23rd October at the National Library of Australia. I'll be talking about visualisation, cultural collections, "show everything", context, and the problems with search. | |
| Generative Practice interview on Digicult | (Sep 2010) |
| I recently participated in an interesting conversation on generative art with Jeremy Levine, Leonardo Solaas and Marius Watz, which has just been published by Italian new media magazine Digicult. | |
| Measuring Cup in Inside Out | (Jul 2010) |
| My dataform work Measuring Cup is featured in Inside Out, an exhibition of miniature rapid-prototyped sculptures by UK and Australian artists. The show premiered at Object Gallery in Sydney and will continue at DMU Cube Gallery, Phoenix Square, Leicester in September. | |
| recent writing | |
| Space-Filling and Self-Constraint: Critical Case Studies in Generative Geometry | (Aug 2010) | Architectural Theory Review 15 (2) 157-165. pdf |
| Networked Production: On making with bits and atoms | (Aug 2010) | Craft Australia eNews 54 . html |
| Exploring the digital commons: an approach to the visualisation of large heritage datasets | (Jul 2010) | EVA London . pdf |
| Visualising Archival Collections: The Visible Archive Project | (Nov 2009) | Archives and Manuscripts 37 (2). |
| Right Here, Right Now - HC Gilje's Networks of Specificity | (Oct 2009) | Hordaland Kunstsenter . html |
| recent projects | |
| Watching the Street (Ottawa) | (Oct 2010) |
Vague Terrain selected Watching the Street (Navigator) for their showcase in this year's Electric Fields festival. With some help from the people at Artengine I made a new, localized version of the piece, with 24 hours of Ottawan streetscape to explore. | |
| Measuring Cup | (May 2010) |
A dataform that represents 150 years of Sydney climate data in the form of a small vessel. | |
| commonsExplorer | (Mar 2010) |
commonsExplorer is an experimental interactive browser for the Flickr Commons. It provides a "big picture" view of these collections - a rich, single screen interface that reveals structures and patterns and encourages exploration. | |
| Weather Bracelet | (Sep 2009) |
365 days of Canberra weather data, in a 3d-printed wearable form. | |
| M Digital Design / Grow your Own Logotype | (Apr 2009) |
A generative branding toy for the new Master of Digital Design launching at UC this year. | |