Garton AV Retrospective

From Andrew Garton's wiki

Contents

Description

A snap-shot retrospective of collaborative audio-visual works produced by Andrew Garton from 1998 to the present. These works represent Garton's social justice and broad cultural interests through which, Toy Satellite, contributed a decade of new media innovations in Australia. Toy Satellite, a not-for-profit production house was founded in 1995 and created a vast catalogue of streaming, generative, interactive, installation and performance works. Garton's collaborative processes employ the use traditional and non-traditional improvisational techniques in both audio and video performance. His interests in the genre have seen explorations in Korean Sinawe and more recently, Turkish Taksim.

Program

  • BORDER SONG (machinima video clip, Power/Garton)
  • GRIT (CC licensed works remixed live by Garton)
  • TOKYO HAIKU (sonic and visual mediation on Tokyo)
  • TIMOR MASS (based on millennium midnight mass, East Timor, Garton/Power)
  • UNDERCURRENTS (produced for Taipie International Arts Festival, 2001)
  • DRIFT TO DERIVE (from D3 installation - a situationist inspired interactive)
  • SOON (1 minute video haiku commissioned for opening ACMI, Melb)

Requirements

  • 2 x video projectors
  • 2 x DVD players
  • 2 x projection surfaces (one bounding the other)
  • 1 x stereo sound system

Acknowledgements

This work would not have been feasible nor possible with out the support of:

  • ESC Gallery
  • Centre for Animation and Interactive Media, Department of Creative Media, RMIT
  • Creative Commons Clinic, Australia
  • John Power, Andrew Thomas, Kim Bounds
  • apc.au
  • Crumpler