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Over the last few weeks ANAT Synapse resident Deir

Over the last few weeks ANAT Synapse resident Deirdre Feeney has been on a steep learning curve, venturing into the world of nano fabrication.

Moving back and forth constantly between the precision of the nano-lathe and then the 3D printers is requiring a continuous shift in focus. Deirdre says "this shift in perception has made me think of a quantum physicist or astronomer, constantly oscillating between the ‘zoomed-in’ world of minuscule or faraway objects and the ‘zoomed-out’ world of everyday life."

Deirdre's enduring fascination with 16th century 'natural magic' and wonder, with making the invisible visible and with exposing the mechanics and materiality involved in image production, has led to her working with Dr Geoff Campbell at the ANU Research School of Physics. Using the School’s industry-leading facilities and equipment, Deirdre and Geoff will test the optical limits of mirrors and lenses to create projections capable of invoking a sense of wonder in contemporary viewers.

Read Deidre's blog here:
http://feeney2020.blog.anat.org.au/

@deirdre_feeney #anatallumni @anuphysics

Video: The nano-lathe cuts very slowly, for example a facet of 18mm x 25mm takes about 10 to 12 hours to cut about 120 microns (0.12mm). Video courtesy the artist.

FINAL CALL :: Experience life on the ice first han

FINAL CALL :: Experience life on the ice first hand... EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST ARE OPEN for the 2021 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship. Running since 1984 the fellowship is made possible by the Australian Antarctic Division with additional support provided by ANAT since 2017.

Deadline: 21 September.

To apply: https://www.anat.org.au/opportunities/2021-australian-antarctic-arts-fellowship-expression-of-interest-is-open/

Images: "Winds are gusting over 70 knots. Sea is looking real interesting. And just a bit humbling. We're pointing into a glacier in the distance. Hard to comprehend the scale. I'm not going to go out and get a photo just now."
2019–20 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellows, digital artists Adam Nash and Dr John McCormick’s voyage on the Aurora Australis to Mawson research station in Antarctica. Photographs courtesy @wild.system.
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ANAT Ideate :: Guy Ben-Ary & Nathan Thompson are P

ANAT Ideate :: Guy Ben-Ary & Nathan Thompson are Perth based researchers. They currently work at SymbioticA, UWA. They have been collaborating for the past 6 years and are recognised internationally as innovators working across science and the media arts, specialising in biotechnological artworks aimed to enrich our understanding of what it means to be alive. Their main research area surrounds cybernetics, biological robotics and the cultural articulation of these technologies.

Guy and Nathan are developing the concept of ‘In-Vitro Intelligence driven Surrogate Performer’ – a bioengineered entity that has direct biological links to its donor and embodies the abilities to perform, the proposed project explores the possibilities of bioengineering organoids as the ‘input’ mechanisms for Surrogate Performers such as the auditory and visual senses.

Image: ‘cellF, a surrogate performer’, performing in Science Centre Heureka with Defunensemble, Helsinki, 2019
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COMING SOON :: #ANATsoapbox GUEST #5... art + scie

COMING SOON :: #ANATsoapbox GUEST #5... art + science + technology stories in the time of Covid 19

Image: courtesy the Cassie Leatham.
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@wild_blak_arts #ANATsoapbox #artisttakeover #artsci #artscience #sciart #pandemiclife #pandemicart #artinquarantine #covidart #covid19art

ANAT Ideate :: Willoh S. Weiland (b.1980, Seine Bi

ANAT Ideate :: Willoh S. Weiland (b.1980, Seine Bight, Belize) is an artist, writer and curator. Over the last fifteen years Weiland has created large-scale performance works and art events, both independently and as Artistic Director of artist-led experimental arts organisation Aphids (2010-2018). Collaboration is a vital element of Weiland’s work and themes such as feminist politics, science and the mediating impact of technology recur throughout her practice.

Drawing inspiration from the ‘90’s phenomenon of the Tamagochi and looking through the lens of queer theory ‘My Thing’ is a body of research that looks into the possibility for art and technology to transform our experience of intimacy by re-imagining the role of the digital companion.

Image: Willoh S. Weiland. Photograph Saul Steed.

@willohsweiland #ANATideate2020

Experience life on the ice first hand... EXPRESSIO

Experience life on the ice first hand... EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST OPEN :: The Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship has been running since 1984 and is made possible by the Australian Antarctic Division with additional support provided by ANAT since 2017.
Deadline: 21 September.

To apply: https://www.anat.org.au/opportunities/2021-australian-antarctic-arts-fellowship-expression-of-interest-is-open/

Image: Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow, sound artist Philip Samartzis recording sounds in the field near Casey station. Photograph Philip Samartzis.

@ausantarctic @philip.samartzis #anatallumni #antarctica

ANAT Ideate :: Dr. Wade Marynowsky is an artist, a

ANAT Ideate :: Dr. Wade Marynowsky is an artist, academic and researcher working across robotics, immersive and interactive performance and installation. His main body of research explores the notion of robotic performance agency by challenging notions of classical spectatorship and performance. His practice is characterised by large-scale robotic, sound, light and interactive works that combine humour, camp and a host of unnerving thematics to absorbing affect.

‘A robot in the garden: technological ecosystems as sustainable artworks’ is investigating how art and technology can claim new space for creative expression by intersecting and diverting the fields of Field Robotics and Agriculture Technology into innovative artistic pathways.

Image: 'Yesterday’s Futurist, (Self Portrait with Lightsaber)', 2017.

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#ANATsoapbox...art + science + technology stories

#ANATsoapbox...art + science + technology stories in the time of Covid 19 :: guest#4 Helen Pynor.

Watch our stories this week and check out Helen’s highlight

Image: Helen Pynor, 2017. Photograph Ben Gilbert, Wellcome

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ANAT Ideate :: Andrea Rassell is a media artist an

ANAT Ideate :: Andrea Rassell is a media artist and interdisciplinary researcher in science art. Working in nanoart—artforms that engage with nanoscience and nanotechnology—she creates experimental films and moving image installations that explore scale, technological mediation, and the multisensory perception of the sub-molecular realm. Her work has been shown at the New York Imagine Science Festival, Oaxaca FilmFest in Mexico, the New Zealand International Film Festival, White Night in Australia and Sónar+D in Spain.

‘Body politic’s describes how the powers of society regulate the human body, and the struggle over individual versus social control of the body. In her ANAT Ideate project Andrea is taking this notion and using it to explore emerging nanobiotechnologies through her nanoart and media art practices.

Read Andrea’s blog here:
http://rassell2020.blog.anat.org.au

Image: Andrea Rassell, Still from ‘The Society of NanoBioSensing’, Scanning Electron Microscopy image of prostate tumour cells with ZIF-8, a nano-engineered material that acts as a gene delivery system and cancer therapy for specifically targeted cells.

@hello_synaesthesia #andrearassell #anatallumni #ANATideate2020

“Worldwide, humans now move more rock and sedime

“Worldwide, humans now move more rock and sediment, both intentionally through activities like mining, and unintentionally by accelerating erosion through agriculture and urbanization, than all of Earth’s rivers combined.” Marcia Bjornerud

ANAT Ideate :: ‘BoneDirt’ is a collaboration between the artists Virginia Barratt, Jessie Boylan and Linda Dement. They have been working together and with other knowledge holders since 2018, in the fields of geotrauma, embodiment and affect. They create trans-media visual and sonic installations that generate an immersive experience of the bodyworld assemblage, especially communication between the human and the more-than-human.

‘BoneDirt’ is exploring human attunement with the more-than-human, specifically with geostrata: rock, ground, dirt. Their ANAT Ideate project is seeking to develop technologies and speculative strategies for deep listening to and with the geological, to open out our possible relations with these more-than-human familiars.

Read ‘BoneDirt’s’ blog here:
http://bonedirt2020.blog.anat.org.au

Image: "Falling rocks", Jessie Boylan for BoneDirt, 2020

@jessie_buoy @syntacticalchaos #ANATideate2020

COMING SOON :: #ANATsoapbox GUEST #4 ...art + scie

COMING SOON :: #ANATsoapbox GUEST #4 ...art + science + technology stories in the time of Covid 19

image: ‘The End is a Distant Memory’, video still, Helen Pynor, 2016. Installation: 6 single-channel videos with sound, various durations; photography; objects. Image courtesy of the artist
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CONGRATULATIONS :: ANAT is thrilled to be partneri

CONGRATULATIONS :: ANAT is thrilled to be partnering with the Australian Antarctic Division to support a special project by sound artist, Dr Philip Samartzis.

Philip will travel to Mawson Station to produce the fourth in a series of high-resolution sound recordings of the Australian Antarctic Territory. In so doing, Philip will fully realise a sonic map of the Territory encompassing Casey, Davis and Macquarie Island stations, with recordings captured by Philip during his earlier Antarctic Fellowships in 2010 and 2016.

Philip’s previous recordings of the RSV Aurora Australis will be complemented by recordings taken on the new icebreaker RSV Nuyina. When finished, Philip’s map will capture the breadth of Australia’s Antarctic Territory and how changes in technology, climate and weather have impacted on life on the ice over the past dozen years.

Philip’s project will take place during the 2021/22 season.

Image: Philip Samartzis at the High Altitude Research Station at Jungfraujoch, Switzerland. Photograph Philip Samartzis

@ausantarctic #antarctica @philip.samartzis #anatallumni

CONGRATULATIONS :: Janet Laurence, we’re delight

CONGRATULATIONS :: Janet Laurence, we’re delighted to announce has been awarded the 2020 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship.

Janet will spend time at Australia’s Casey research station to develop an immersive installation. The proposed installation will be based on extensive on-site research, including photographs, video works, drawings, watercolours, and collected writings on the Antarctic landscape and Casey station.

The Antarctic Arts Division and ANAT are also excited to support a second project by sound artist Dr Philip Samartzis to produce a series of high-resolution sound recordings of Mawson station and Australia’s new icebreaker RSV Nuyina to complete a sound map of the Australian Antarctic Territory.

Ms Laurence and Dr Samartzis will travel to the icy continent during the 2021/22 season.

The Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship has been running since 1984 and is supported by the Australian Antarctic Division with additional support provided by ANAT since 2017.

Image: Janet Laurence in her studio. Photograph Felicity Jenkins.

@ausantarctic #antarctica @janetlaurence @dominikmerschgallery @philip.samartzis

#ANATsoapbox :: Check out our story today and all

#ANATsoapbox :: Check out our story today and all week... #ANATsoapbox...art + science + technology stories in the time of Covid 19 :: GUESTS#3 PluginHUMAN, Betty Sargeant & Justin Dwyer.
Image: PluginHUMAN, Betty Sargeant & Justin Dwyer.
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2020 ANAT SYNAPSE RESIDENT, artist Niki Sperou is

2020 ANAT SYNAPSE RESIDENT, artist Niki Sperou is questioning our relationship to plastic as well as where our waste goes.

This image from Niki's 'Plastics memento Mori' series evokes the horror of the plastics problem and is a reminder of the inevitability of mortality. Memento mori works suggest that we should take responsibility for our actions as we are vulnerable because of them. These images are grave, as critical issues demand serious responses.

Beyond obvious impact upon wildlife and environments that have ingested or become suffocated in its mass, plastics break down into almost invisible microplastics that are now ubiquitous and are believed to disrupt the health of all living organism. In order to heighten feelings of empathy Niki has put herself into the picture, replacing the animal as victim, as unfortunately humans often have a hierarchical view of the world, placing themselves above other lives.

To learn more about the featured image and the residency read Niki's blog here:
http://sperou2020.blog.anat.org.au/

Niki and Professor Wei Zhang from Flinders University’s Centre for Marine Bio-products Development are working with marine macro algae to produce biodegradable bioplastics to investigate more hopeful narratives and try to do better for humans, animals, plants and the environment.

Image: Niki Sperou, 'Guilt 9' from the series 'Plastics memento Mori', 2020. Photograph courtesy the artist.

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ANAT alumnus Dr Chris Henscke is presenting at the

ANAT alumnus Dr Chris Henscke is presenting at the 'Event Horizon' Symposium hosted by the University of Melbourne’s Centre of Visual Art and the Science Gallery Melbourne

The Symposium brings together artists, physicists and cultural theorists to discuss what an ‘event horizon’ is, across topics ranging from black holes, dark matter, tipping points and new horizons.

The Event Horizon Symposium will take place virtually, with two live plenary sessions to take place on Friday 21 August via Zoom.

REGISTER here
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/event-horizon-symposium-tickets-113620512010

WATCH :: Chris’s presentation from earlier in the week ‘Edge of the Observable’ here

https://sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/cova/projects/symposia/symposia-and-seminars-2020/event-horizon/test-2/chris-henscke

@chris.henschke #anatalumni @scigallerymel