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keirdotnet . net | My Current Projects

     

Oh so criminal

 

Oh so criminal is a (sometimes live) audio/visual exploration of copyright, of 'fair use' and abuse.

 
     

Biloela Girls

 

Biloela Girls is a subtle, ghostly, site-specific video installation I created for the Cockatoo Island Festival, Easter 2005.

 
     

PEDBAR: You'll never brake again

 

www.PEDBAR.com is my Yes Men-esque response to the wealth of massive SUVs and 4WDs that proliferate most inner-city areas, which is particularly pronounced in Sydney. It was originally devised as a just below the radar, not quite sure it's real, large car bulbar online store (fake customer order system and all). But I couldn't properly bite my tongue.

 
     

keirdotnet . net | Other Projects I've Worked On

     

Day of the Figurines

 

Day of the Figurines is "part board game, part secret society. The game is set in a fictional town that is littered, dark and underpinned with steady decay." To play, players are invited to create a figurine to enter the town: to name it and answer questions about its past. Thereafter participation in the game is via SMS on their mobile phone. I worked on many and varied aspects of this piece with Blast Theory and the Mixed Reality Laboratory in the UK during 2006, for exhibition in Barcelona, Berlin, Singapore and the UK.

 
     

Conversations

 

Conversations is a distributed multi-user virtual environment comprising three discrete virtual reality stations located in different parts of Sydney's Powerhouse Museum. I was involved in all technical and planning parts of the installation, including system design, 3D sound design, virtual reality design and programming and the creation of combinative narrative engine. It was exhibited in December 2004 at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.

 
     

Still: Waiting

 

Still: Waiting is an interactive installation, by Lynette Wallworth, where a flock of birds that live on a tree in a country landscape react to the movement of the installation's visitors. For this installation I helped interface between the physical triggers in the space and the video playback software. It was displayed at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery, in Sydney, in August 2004.

 
     

T_Visionarium

 

T_Visionarium is an interactive immersive virtual environment set within a large dome articulated by navigable satellite TV recordings. Amongst other roles, I created a custom manual video tagging and sorting software on Apple OSX. Which I will make available as freeware, once I've cleaned it up. It was installed in Lille, France, during the 2004 European Cultural Capital Festival.

 
     

Web-of-Life

 

Web-of-Life is an ambitious multi-disciplinary project formulated by Jeffrey Shaw and Michael Gleich; it was created at the ZKM | Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe. I helped produce a large hand scanned used to scan user's hand lines. The various Web-of-Life installations have been exhibited the world over since 2002.

 
     

keirdotnet . net | Spare Time Projects

     

Hair Done Gone

 

In late 2006 i decided it was time for a hair cut, hair done gone was the result.

 
     

Camera Obscura

 

Camera Obscura is a monthly experimental film night that me and a couple of friends put on in a warehouse in Sydney's inner west. Check the website for screening details or make a suggestion for a strange film you'd like to see. Incidentally we are always looking for local talent.

 
     

Phatty Boom Stix

 

In my spare time I make and play bootlegs, also called bastard pop or mash-ups, under the moniker Phatty Boom Stix. A selection of my "creations" and booking information can be found at phatty.keirdotnet.net.

 
     

Diffusion Science Radio

 

Diffusion is a pop-science radio show that I (occasionally) write and present stories on. In Sydney it plays on 2ser (107.3FM) Thursday mornings at 9. It plays on some 17 other stations Australia-wide, it's podcast to thousands and it's great fun. There are full details on the site.

 
     
     
     

 

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