Camouflage Opening
08 August 2013
Dr Jacqueline Millner decoding the text
Students from SCA decoding the text
With the curator of Camouflage Cultures - NIcholas Tsoutas
Camouflage Cultures
08 August 2013
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 8th August 2013 6:00pm Conference: 09 – 11 August 2013
Camouflage Cultures: Surveillance, Communities, Aesthetics, Animals, an international conference and exhibition co-convened an co-curated by Ann Elias and Nicholas Tsoutas.
The conference and exhibition address two key principles of camouflage - concealment and deception - in relation to four themes: surveillance, communities, aesthetics, and animals. The theme of ‘surveillance’ includes war, defence, militaries, and conflict; ‘communities’ embraces society, the everyday, government, and identity; ‘aesthetics’ incorporates art, architecture, film, and popular culture; ‘animals’ includes human and non-human beings, nature, evolution, pattern, and optics
Preliminary drawing
Night Watch - photos by Ian Hobbs
14 April 2013
photos by ian hobbs
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Night Watch - weekly schedule
13 April 2013
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Night Watch - sequences
12 April 2013
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Night Watch
10 April 2013
55 Elizabeth St. Braisbane CBD
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Default messages constructed with reference to the following passage by Beatrice Warde to be trasmitted across an 11 panel LED canvas: … a printing office…crossroads of civilization…refuge of all the arts… against the ravages of time… armoury of fearless truth…against whispering rumour… incessant trumpet of trade from this place words may fly abroad…not to perish on waves of sound…not to vary with the writer’s hand…but fixed in the having been verified in proof…friend you stand on sacred ground…
Fragments of this quote above scroll across the LED canvas 4 times every hour. The passage will never read as a whole but if the public tune in repeatedly they will be able to assemble and decode the message.
These fragments will be varied in their speed, length and their abstraction, ensuring the work has longevity and attraction for repeated viewing, the text itself is limited but the variation and animated effects will provide a visual that provides longterm interest for an audience.
Work in progress, to be completed in 2013