Artist:The Buchan Group: Patrick Shirley (Australia) / Anthony Rawson (Australia) / Gary Edmonds (Australia)Collaborators:Precision Engineering...

inSIGHT

Location:

Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
2000 NSW
Australia

Access and Inclusion

  • Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.
  • Audio Described - Audio description is a service provided for patrons who are blind or have low vision. Trained audio describers give live, objective, verbal descriptions.

Event Details

Artist:
The Buchan Group: Patrick Shirley (Australia) / Anthony Rawson (Australia) / Gary Edmonds (Australia)

Collaborators:
Precision Engineering & Manufacturing: Shahil Maharaj (Australia) 
The Propaganda Mill: Daniel Thomas (Australia) 

inSIGHT is a representation of the human face, rendered as a gigantic low-fidelity display. Translucent and illuminated from deep within, the sculpture stretches the scale of the pixels forming the image, but reduces their resolution. The effect is very different from the sharp, fully resolved image the viewer is accustomed to seeing in digital media and pushes boundaries in terms of articulating and isolating the visual building blocks of the portrait.

The work presents a range of animated facial images highlighting changes in expression, gender and character. The sculpture also explores other types of visual representation, moving beyond the human face to representations of sound, weather and other cultural and physical phenomena.

Woven through the sculpture are strands of programmable LEDs, illuminating and animating the images: by standing directly in front of the sculpture, the viewer is given sharp, bright insight into the means of animation, while from other angles the piece takes on a smooth, glowing quality, with light radiating from beneath the visible surface.

Country represented by installation: Australia 

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Audio Description

Access and Inclusion

  • Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.
  • Audio Described - Audio description is a service provided for patrons who are blind or have low vision. Trained audio describers give live, objective, verbal descriptions.

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