In3Face, 2002, Interactive installation
About the work
An exploration of The Human Face. A metaphor for identity. Three faces: mother father son. Identity is blurred, pixellated, inherited and swapped around, informed by both the subject and the viewer. It makes a chimeric sense, but is unpredictable: what one viewer sees another will never. The permutations are as numerous as the identities we present to others, always based on our physical reality, but constantly changing according to situation.
About the artists
Adam Nash
Born Bristol England 1964
Lives & works Melbourne
Adam Nash is widely recognized as one of the most innovative artists working in Multi-User Virtual Environments. He is a new media artist, composer, programmer, performer and writer. He works primarily in networked real-time 3D spaces, exploring them as audiovisual performance spaces. His work has been presented in galleries, festivals and online in Australia, Europe, Asia and The Americas, including peak festivals SIGGRAPH, ISEA, and the Venice Biennale. He was the recipient of the inaugural Australia Council Second Life Artist in Residency grant. He has been commissioned to present a mixed-reality participatory work at 01SJ Biennial of Global Art in San Jose 2008. He also works as composer and sound artist with Company In Space (AU) and Igloo (UK), exploring the integration of motion capture into realtime 3D audiovisual spaces.
He is currently undertaking a Master of Arts by Research at the Centre for Animation and Interactive Media at RMIT University, Melbourne, where he also is a Lecturer in Computer Games and Digital Art in the School of Creative Media at RMIT University.
He was composer, programmer and performer with The Men Who Knew Too Much from 1994-2002. He has performed with many musical groups and bands in Australia and Japan, including Japanese noise-chaos collective Proud Flesh, Melbourne electro-dub outfit Half Yellow, Brisbane’s Choo Dikka Dikka and Melbourne Concrete Poetry group Arf Arf, among others. He has been a writer and reviewer for Digital Media World magazine, and editor of the Computers and Internet department at LookSmart. He was also a Project Officer at com.IT, a community charity he helped to establish that recycles computers and redistributes them for free to NFPs domestically and overseas.
Mami Yamanaka
Born Japan
Lives & works Melbourne
Mami Yamanaka is a visual artist who challenges and explores new media in her work. The main focus of her art practice is exploring the concept of her original idiosyncratic drawn motifs by creating patterns from the motif within an installation space to express her own experience of cultural relocation and consequent transcendence of her identity. Her use of various methods (e.g.: Painting, Printing, Engraving, Sculpting, and Digital Video) give her work a unique contemporary element while her original motifs express the influence of her inherited traditional Japanese culture. Mami is also exploring the Internet as an artistic medium, mainly through the activity of the YamanakaNash unit
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