Crude (2018)
Crude is an essayist film that attempts to see and hear some of the elusive signs of anthropogenic climate change in order to make what is invisible, visible, to evoke contemplations on the subject of ecological crisis. The film seeks to evoke a space of reflection, uneasiness, and sadness by engaging with the residual and stratified signs of our collective impact on our environment.

Flight (2018)
Flight (2018), is a series of filmed passenger jet streams or contrails — forming a database of a particular type of human presence and movement. The video installation seeks to evoke a space of contemplation, uneasiness, and sadness by engaging with the residual and stratified signs of our collective impact on our environment.

Strange Climes
TSB Wallace Arts Centre, Pah Homestead March-April 2018

Flight Pattern (2017)
Flight Pattern, is a series of filmed passenger jet stream or contrails — forming a multiscreen visual database of a particular type of human presence and movement. The work seeks to evoke a space of contemplation, uneasiness, and sadness by engaging with the residual and stratified signs of our collective impact on our environment. The simple compositions elicit a hypnotic encounter with beauty, which viewers have perplexingly described as hopeful. The work has been selected as on of my NROs because of the high level of international impact (screening as part of the on|off100101010 (onoff100101010.com) Gallery Installations programme (2017) in Singapore (NTU), Brisbane (QUT Cube), and at Epicentre in Sydney as part of the 2017 Visualisation Matters Conference. visualisation.matters.today/2017/

Aspects of Trees (2015)
Programme Notes:
Since 1996 pine beetle epidemics have decimated high elevation stands of Poderosa, Lodgepole, and Pinyon forests in British Columbia, Alberta, Colorado, California and New Mexico. Climate change has provided ideal conditions for the beetles to multiply and spread across the West Coast of North America.These infestations have led to the destruction of millions of hectares of the largest arboreal forests on the planet.
It is an ecological disaster that has emerged as a dramatic visual, aural, and tactile reminder of the complexity of our natural environment.

Synopsis
Aspects of Trees is a film and sound essay. The subject of the work is the North American pine beetle epidemic. In the last decade the beetle has noticeably decimated high elevation arboreal forests in British Columbia, Alberta, Colorado and New Mexico. It is an ecological disaster that is a dramatic visual reminder of the complexity and fragility of our ecology. Aspects of Trees aims to break through cumulative apathy around our escalating ecological crisis by engaging with the inherent complications of the subject through an evocative and affective mediation of image and sound. The project’s aural and visual conversation, and ultimately eulogy, proposes that an affective mode might offer an alternate means to progress debates around anthropogenic climate change.

360 Movement Study 2.0 (2019)
360 video cameras allow for the moving dancing body to be captured in an embodied manner grasping at perceptions of place, space, and scale, otherwise only experienced through live, site performance. These movement studies experiment with notions of dancers being captured in VR360 from soloist perspectives later to be matched in post-production with their dancing “partners.” The three dancers determine their own relationship to space and the capture technology through an improvisational approach carried out to the final 360 capture. Their solo practice informs their decision-making from studio improvisations through to post-production.

The dancers, in-studio, are confined by four 90 degree quadrants of space, divided inside the dance studio. They are then composited together inside a 360-degree composition for playback in multiple formats (VR headset, Web download, panoramic projection, or repeated (stacked) composites). The dancers are guided by creative constraints, and improvisational techniques to construct four different movement studies designed to work individually and together depending on viewer choices on where they might be drawn to look.

Music by Cut Crystal by Avoid Avoid (2017)
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