Research projects

Apparatus Thinking: media archaeology and creative re-enactment as collaborative research methodologies (2020)

Materiality, Agency and Data

Associate Professor Martyn Jolly, Lead Chief Investigator, Photography & Media Arts   Location: Zoom Meeting here Time: Aug 27, 2020 05:30 PM (Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney) Meeting ID: 981 0028 9985 Password: 303926 Free event: all welcome For this seminar artist, art historian and now collector Martyn Jolly will discuss his research in...

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BIG PINK (2019)

Materiality, Agency and Data

Artist: Erica Seccombe 3 min (looped), single channel anaglyph 3D movie, to be viewed with red/cyan glasses. Exhibited in BIG PINK, Solo Exhibition, Galerie pompom, Sydney. 31 October - 24 November 2019.

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Celestial Body: So Near Yet So FAR (2019)

Materiality, Agency and Data

Artist: Erica Seccombe Anaglyphic moving image, 3 min duration with audio (viewed with red cyan glasses). Visualised and animated in Drishti by Erica Seccombe. Exhibited in Promised the Moon, curated by Dr Ursula K Frederick, an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellow at the School of Archaeology & Anthropology and School of...

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Corroboree Database (2020 - current)

Materiality, Agency and Data

David Hansen A digitised collection of images of corroboree from 1788 to the present which will be augmented with recordings of historic corroboree songs.

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Digital Metal Library (2019-current)

Materiality, Agency and Data

This project will provide a research resource for archaeometallurgists and historians of metal by bringing together historical primary sources on metalworking technology into a searchable digital tool. Using a limited range of keyword tags, users will be able to compare descriptions of specific metalworking processes across history.

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Digitally Printed Tableware Designs (2017)

Materiality, Agency and Data

Artist: Roderick Bamford Funded by UK Research Council fEC Grants: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (AH/M004333/1- £144,597. Temporary exhibition at Making Futures 5 Conference presenting material results from the ILPEC project, to accompany the papers delivered by Peter Oakley and Rod Bamford in the Crafting in Industry workshop...

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Display at the 4th British Ceramic Biennial, Stoke on Trent (2017)

Materiality, Agency and Data

Artist: Roderick Bamford Funded by UK Research Council fEC Grants: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (AH/M004333/1- £144,597. Display presenting material outputs from the ILPEC project., September 2017. Exhibits included the redesigned printer pump parts and paper feed mechanism and examples of digitally printed ceramic tests and...

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Embark (2018)

Materiality, Agency and Data

Artist(s): Lucy Irvine and Geoff Farquar-Still This collaborative work was commissioned by Woollahra’s Public Art Panel for Lyne Park, Rose Bay in Sydney for a public park in the process of becoming a recreational and transport hub in an inner suburb undergoing demographic change. As a departure from landmarks that seek to fix our sense of...

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Embodied Geometries and Emergent Form (2019)

Materiality, Agency and Data

Research-led teaching project, 2019 SO1 Design Studio, Human Emerging | Emerging Human, RMIT Architecture Main Design Studio Lecturer: Caitlyn Parry Guest lecturer: Lucy Irvine Lucy Irvine's doctoral research addresses some of the epistemological repercussions of how we map, model and make, asking whether these methods reinforce dualisms and...

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Improved Laser Printing Equipment for Ceramics (ILPEC) (2017-2018)

Materiality, Agency and Data

Funding: UK Research Council EC Grants: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (AH/M004333/1- £144,597 ) Principal Investigator: Professor Martin Smith Co-Investigator: Rod Bamford, Head of Programme, Ceramics and Glass Co-Investigator: Dr Peter Oakley, Senior Tutor Research Fellow: Dr Steve Brown David Hamilton: Steering group adviser:...

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Investigations of Computational Aesthetics through visualisation of volumetric data acquired with 3D and 4D Microcomputed X-ray Tomography, (2017 - current)

Materiality, Agency and Data

Erica Seccombe ANU Department of Applied Mathematics, Centre for Advanced Microscopy, National Computational Infrastructure. Outcomes (see more detail below under Research Outputs): Microplastica, 2017 Metamorphosis, 2016-2017 BIG PINK, 2019 Wheat imaging commission, Borevitz lab, 2017 Celestial Body: So Near Yet So FAR, 2019

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Making Ethics (2020 - current)

Materiality, Agency and Data

Convenors: Roderick Bamford and Jessica Hemmings Book proposal for HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg.

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Material Knowledge and Material Culture: The Silver Furniture of Louis XIV (1666—1689), (2018-current)

Materiality, Agency and Data

Christina Clarke Funding: Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australian Department of Education, 2018 How can we gain a true understanding of historical material culture which no longer exists? Is there a way to comprehend the materiality of objects once they are gone? This project aims to reconstruct the materiality of one such group of objects—the...

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Metamorphosis (2016-2017)

Materiality, Agency and Data

Artist: Erica Seccombe Single file detail. Active stereoscopic projection installation. Pupa development at 15 degrees Celsius. 9 datasets from 10% to 100% growth 3D Micro CT. Imaging and Analysis Centre (IAC), NHM, London, Visualised and animated in Drishti by Erica Seccombe. Awards: 2018 Winner, Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, South...

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Microplastica (2017)

Materiality, Agency and Data

Artist: Erica Seccombe 3D printed objects from 3D Micro-CT, rendered in Drishti. Exhibited in the exhibition, Aura: Repetition, Reproduction, and the Mark of the Artist Curated by Ben Rak, Manly Art Gallery & Museum 14 July – 3 September 2017: Wagga Wagga Art Gallery 9 December 2017 – 4 March 2018; ANU School of Art & Design, 23 April...

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