Exhibition Four

Opened by: Professor Tim Senden, Research School of Physics & Engineering

Erica Seccombe | Photography & Media Arts | Doctor of Philosophy

Out of Season is my response to the current state of uncertainty in regards to the future. In this work seeds have become a visual analogy for ideas of time, growth and renewal in the context of environmental issues. This work presents a perpetual state of germination, as these seeds no longer adhere to natural rhythms. I have tested threshold of life by germinating seeds with 4D micro-CT and then visualised the virtual data with a custom designed software Drishti. Experienced through an immersive stereoscopic installation the viewer is free to make imaginative leaps between the originary event of the virtual germinating seeds, the future of the natural environment, or to wonder about their place in this vast yet finite cycle of time.

Erica Seccombe is a visual artist based in Canberra and is currently a lecturer for Foundation Studies at the ANU School of Art. Her practice spans from traditional and photographic print media to experimental digital platforms using frontier scientific visualisation software. Erica’s work is held in collections at the NGA, the Australian Parliament House and the Australian War Memorial, and her interdisciplinary research has gained recognition nationally and internationally. In 2010 she was recipient of the Synapse residency through ANAT, a 2011 Australia Council London Residency, and in 2015 she undertook an artistic residency at the Natural History Museum in London, supported by an artsACT grant. In 2015 her work, ‘Virtual Life’ won the inaugural Paramor Prize for Art and Innovation at Casula Powerhouse Sydney. Erica’s acquisition and visualization of 4D micro-X-ray Computed Tomography (4D micro-CT) is facilitated by the ANU Department of Applied Mathematics through CT Lab, and Vizlab in the ANU Supercomputer Facility and National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).

For more information on Erica's work the the NCI, visit http://nci.org.au/research/visualisations-merge-art-science-reveal-detai...