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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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
Making Ethics (2020 - current)
Materiality, Agency and Data
Convenors: Roderick Bamford and Jessica Hemmings Book proposal for HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg.
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...
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...
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...