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Ōmaio/Stoke, Te Wairepo, Wakapuaka, Mahitahi Tributaries And Catchments - Whakatū/Nelson

Working with local agencies, schools and community this project creates events, artworks and installations that visually, verbally and virtually tells stories of waterways (urban and rural). The work explores stories in the landscape, through watery pathways, to be shared by students and community building on the voices of locals, past and present.The work appears as publications, a series of screens at public events, collateral to collect and learn more about the environment (Matariki Calendars, Te Wairepo Project, Wakapuaka & Ōmaio Fieldguides, Breathe resource downloadable), objects of play (Go Fish Cards), invitations to engage in biodiversity enhancement (Pod seed packet project)The development of the work was through a series of creative interventions along the waterways to gather material amalgamated into the Know your Stream 'Field Guides'. These are field days, walks, exploration based workshops and conversation spaces. Working with local Iwi, Libraries, Pūtangitangi / Greenmeadows, NMIT, FuturEcology, Nelson Schools and Kindergarten, Community Artworks and other local art and environment agencies The outcomes of the Wakapuaka project are incorporated into storymaps http://www.nelson.govt.nz/environment/healthy-streams/story-maps/wakapuaka-stream-story-map/Just Launched 2022http://www.nelson.govt.nz/environment/healthy-streams/story-maps/poorman-valley-stream/The work of the project in Ōmaio (Stoke) has now finished keep out the local community spaces and schools to pick up your FieldGuide.Starting work on the Mahitahi project - http://www.nelson.govt.nz/environment/project-mahitahi/

A recent exhibitions of the last three decades of Artworks may be found at http://artecology.net

Wakapauka

A videoed story project to celebrate the instigation of another waterway project Wakapuaka ~ bursting with lifehttp://www.nelson.govt.nz/environment/biodiversity-2/nelson-nature/wakapuaka-bursting-with-life/

Global

UpStage is an open-source networked performance venue developed in Aotearoa/NZ and host to artists, educators, storytellers and audiences globally - www.upstage.org.nzI am a co-creator of the environment from the user/design side the original code was written by Digital Artist Dougals Bagnall. It was conceived with the networked performance (cyberformance) troupe Avatar BodyCollision www.avatarbodycollision.org. An open-source project that has a fabulous volunteer developer team one who has joined since being one of the rotating iteration of Auckland University of Technology computer scientists learning about and developing alongside UpStage as clients.I am an artist through UpStage, creating promotional material, designing exhibitions, developing resources for use on the stages, designing the look and feel of the annual festival events and working on show-reels and documentation.I co-curate the festivals including accessing funding, developing the call for proposals, selecting works and mentoring the artists groups as well as co-hosting the festivals along with my co-conspirator Helen Varley Jamieson.I have created performances as solo works as well as collaborated on shows with many other artists including Avatar BodyCollisionThanks to a Creative Europe fund we are currently rewriting the software to enable deployment across mobile technologies and to break away from the original stage structure that served out via Flash player. Details and progress about this project can be found at http://mobilise-demobilise.eu

Dunedin, Nelson, Kitchener (Ontario, Canada)

SOUNDING ~ echolocation and disruption in our seasAn art project investigating the connections between noise pollution, whales and dolphins living off the coast of Dunedin. The SOUNDING project uses data, technology and handheld devices to engage members of the public in an extended performance work about echo-location and ecological pressure from increasing machine noise in our oceans. It is the collaborative project with Caroline McCaw and creative technologist Andrew Hornblow who between them represent three distinct coastlines around Aotearoa/New Zealand, an interest in public art and a shared concern for the environment.Together we are worked with Otago University whale researchers Professor Liz Slooten, Steve Dawson and Will Rayment, sound artist Leyton Glen, the Otago Museum team, and design students from Otago Polytechnic. The Vogel Street performance was choreographed by artist Katrina Thomson.2018SOUNDINGwalks - a series of walks to listen and talk with scientists about:• our local marine mammal neighbours• ancient fossil bones in a working paleontology museum• acoustic underwater worlds and noise pollutionIn a small groups we encountered acoustic oceans through wi-fi enabled umbrellas to together navigate our shared understandings.Art + Oceans exhibition July/August And as pert of Performing Ecologies - November 2018We redeveloped the digital oceans and our new set of augmented umbrellas (thanks Blunt!) with Infrared to replace the radio frequency 433mhz to create our invisible spaces navigable by sound Digital Dynamics | Facing the Anthropocene THEMUSEUM, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada 2020Check out the details here sounding.nz/soundingCA

A small story created with some of the audio and images shared by the delightful locals Peggy & Colin Gregson

Burn Time & Exploratorium was co-created with Anthony Genet (Flame Daisy) Burn Time is a heliographic instrument; styled on the Victorian meteorological machine, Campbell Stokes. These instruments are still in use in weather stations around Aotearoa although increasingly being replaced with digital recorders. Facebook page @BurnTimeDunedinOur machine is created from recycled brass and copper and bits of an old boat. A light sensitive cardboard strip records a daily transcript of sunshine hours collected through the focusing effect of a blown optical glass orb. The Exploratorium offered our research, prototypes, sun shine related novelties and workshops and events - it also housed the machine overnight.The instrument we created is a machine but the only moving part is the earth we all stand on.We understand from historic records that we are now in pivotal times for acting for our continued existence. We invite viewers to consider their actions in our changing climatic times.This work was made possible by Dunedin City Council Ara Toi Fund, Creative Communities administered by Arts Council Nelson and support by NZ MetService, Nelson Weather and Dunedin Astronomical Society, Dunedin Dream Brokerage and the Meridian Mall (Venue).

Moana

Oceans Mesh_ our social seas is a creative collaboration with social and bio-physical scientists to create an audio-visual installation for Light Nelson 2018 to generate conversations about the ocean and the many ways we value marine ecosystems. The projected meta-narrative ( within the theme of ecosystem based management - enabling narratives ) allowed audiences onsite and online to contribute to the discussion. http://oceansmesh.net

Nelson

Te Wairepo (York) Stream runs through Nelson South & Victory Community. This project through a series of artworks and events engages a community with their waterway. Through increased interest and attention there will be a decrease in toxic and solid waste into the stream and an increase in riparian planting and care of the stream. It is a tributary of Project Maitai funded through Nelson City Council.Project outputs developed and facilitated were:* A scoping document outlining proposed works, budgets and timelines* Mural project on the Victory Community Koha shed (20 + 40 foot containers)* Race Unity Day event- appearing as the stream, developing a community of interest* Breathe ~ an art/ science project involving four schools ( 40 students ) long-listed for the NZ River Story Awards 2017, winner of the illuminate art prize.* Matariki event, stream appearance* Booklet celebrating the first 6 months, - designed by NMIT students for distribution* Team Up 2 Clean Up * Waters ~ Source to the Sea 7 panel mural project with multiple community sectors* TU 2 CU WEEDS! ~ a focus on the local water and walkways * Tributaries, Nodes and Networks ~ panel presentation * Breathe installed at the Elma Turner Library* Race Unity Day ~ celebrating achievements and highlighting upcoming events* Kaitiaki ~ a project to create a network of trees (with stencilled tree guards) * Walk the Chalk, Talk the Walk ~ a guided walking symposium to explore the history and values of the waterway.* Team Up 2 Clean Up 2 preparing the ground ~ literally preparing a site for planting, and preparing for wider local efforts to continue the waterway care* NMIT perpetual calendar design project (including times and focus for the environment)* Matariki celebrating the community effort for Te Wairepo, giving away calendarshttps://www.nelson.govt.nz/assets/Environment/Downloads/project-maitai/te-wairepo-york-stream/Te-Wairepo-booklet.pdf

Nelson & Online

Finding Lucinda Fairweather is a text adventure, story/treasure-hunt set between Founders Heritage Park, the Nelson CBD and the Port. Interactive Fiction is both an historic game space and site of narrative worlds. It is a means to create and offer puzzling and poetic play spaces where the game world is created in the imagination of the player.This It is a geo-located story will connect six sites around the old shoreline and Nelson CBD with physical installations that act as clues for navigating around the story. These are guides to resolving the mysterious tale of Lucinda and discovering a forgotten aspect of the old Nelson. Clues range from individual objects in windows and part of an installation at Founders through to an entire window at the Nelson Provincial Museum. They each act to 'locate' part of the story and serve as an entry point for play. The sites come alive through lighting up at night in their part of the 'playing after dark' magic of the Light Nelson event.I am the initiator of this project and am collaborating with the artist Robert Carter on its implementation.You will be able to access it from virtually anywhere from the 8th of July at http://flf.geek.nz

New Zealand

In 2012 I co-wrote the application to develop organisational structures of the Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA) network Charitable trust (www.ada.net.nz) for the members and public engaged around critical discourse and deployment of media arts locally in NZ and overseas. We succeeded in gaining funding support through Creative New Zealand Toi Uru Kahikatea for the ADA Mesh Cities Christchurch projecthttp://www.ada.net.nz/projects/ada-mesh-cities-christchurch/Under the umbrella of ADA mesh Cities I planned and promoted two Symposia attracting national and international artists and researchers to each (Dunedin 2013 and Auckland 2014) http://www.ada.net.nz/category/symposia/ I also developed and ran a national series of workshops each year. http://www.ada.net.nz/category/projects/I have developed the relationships with the ADA organisation particularly adding further opportunities for artists in the Digital Art Live project as part of our Auckland Symposium http://www.ada.net.nz/artbase/dj3d14/As well as managing the funding budget, organising and supporting artists and researchers through the various events associated with the ADA Mesh Cities project I coordinated a further project the ADA Artbase which sees a series of works and writing/reviews being uploaded to the ADA web instances.http://www.ada.net.nz/category/artbase/The most recent project output has been the ADA BookSprint (as a result of another successful funding application) http://www.ada.net.nz/projects/booksprint-space-network-memory/This intensive writing workshop followed an internationally recognised process for collaborative writing and culminated in the book. A Transitional Imaginary; Space, network and Memory in Christchurch.http://www.ada.net.nz/library/a-transitional-imaginary-space-network-and-memory-in-christchurch/You can download a free copy or follow the links to purchase a hard-copy version

New Zealand

Part-time media and communication position for the community of New Zealand's eLearning clusters.Primarily liaising with the elected Council and a national network of leaders of the Communities of Schools running eLearning networks.This role also involves developing media, writing articles, white papers and briefing notes for ministerial meetings.I also have planned and run the inaugural and second Virtual Learning Awards that were presented by the associate Minister of Education the Honourable Nikki Kaye.

New Zealand

2003-2005 Information and Communication Technology Professional Development Facilitator through a Ministry of Education (MoE) contract for a cluster of 8 schools on the West Coast of the South Island. This role entailed designing and delivering professional learning to encourage school staff and students to engage through digital technologies. Developed the Learning Management System that enabled online access to a cluster wide web environment. Wrote the successful application for Video Conferencing (VC) equipment to develop the professional development cluster to engage in the eLearning landscape2006 - 2007 - re-employed by the schools to help develop the use of the VC equipment, to engage in the Virtual Learning Network (VLN) and progress the professional learning networks2008-2009 - wrote the business case to enable WestNet to access the ePrincipal funding for leadership and Virtual Learning Network community development part-funded through Ministry of Education.2009 - Contributed to the development of the successful regional cluster application for the Blended Learning project between eLearning clusters on in Canterbury (Cantatech) and South Canterbury (AorakiNet) in the MoE funded project South Central Divide. 2010 year part-time assistance to establish the incoming project leader

New Zealand

ICARUS is the Collaborative Innovations cluster that used ICT to enable development through shared data and resources. The project provides Professional Development for Principals and Teachers and a range of projects for Students. ICARUS includes Haast, Jacobs River, Fox Glacier, Franz Josef, Whataroa and South Westland Area Schools.I developed creative projects, enabled online student council meetings, and encouraged Principal's online communication through synchronous web tools, audio and video conferencing and online environment to enable school staff and students to connect across 6 remote primary schools in South Westland

Global

A troupe of network performance artists from Aotearoa, Finland and the UK, who formed during the theatre project the[ABC]experiment at Bats Theatre, Wellington (Aotearoa/NZ) and online (February 2002).The Colliders devised and performed together using free and open source web-based environments before proposing the development of the real-time online space UpStage.My contribution included writing, devising, graphics, scenography and avatar development

Adult Education, Certificate

designing courses appropriate to learners beyond the compulsory education sector

Ceramic Sculpture

A year of learning about all aspects of pottery with master potter Chris Weaver

Photography, Certificate Of Proficiency

Activities and Societies: ski club, fencing, seido karate This qualification was gained alongside study in sciences and arts (chemistry.

Education record

Education record