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[thewizardsummer]

Reproduction of portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte by Hippolyte Paul Delaroche in Chau Chak Wing Museum at USYD. Taken sometime between 1840-1860 by unknown photographer. This piece was donated to the museum by Sandra Savides in 2014.

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"A message from Gaza to the brothers and students camping on campus grounds in solidarity with the people of 🇵🇸!!!"

Students4Palestine has set up an encampment on the University of Sydney campus in protest of the Genocide in Gaza.

The University of Sydney has ties with Israeli universities and weapons companies, notably Thales Australia, that are implicated in human rights violations in Palestine.

You can help to pressure Australian universities to divest from Israeli companies if you're in Sydney/Australia by emailing University of Sydney Chancellor with this script in the first link and also donating the University of Sydney encampment fund (second link)

Students4Palestine Linktree:

[mytricksyspirit]

ok some doodles from my aussie modern au for now while i try to figure out again how to render

[nando161mando]

Authorities are quick to label demonstrations against the atrocities perpetrated on Palestinians in Gaza as anti-Semitic, but the fact is they’re anti-genocide.

[aangussca]

Rhythms of Nature (2024)

Artist Statement:

I am very passionate about art and biology.

This is why a majority of my artistic practices have included an overarching theme in some capacity: the overlap between art and science, and their interconnectedness within our world.

Rhythms of Nature (2024) expands on the artmaking and conceptual practice of my previous installation Organic Space (2024), which investigated the idea of soundscape ecology.

In the expanded practice for Rhythms of Nature, I wanted to create connections between art, music, and soundscapes of the natural world. Through these connections, I attempted to answer the following questions:

“Where and how do music, art, and the natural world overlap? And can music, fused with art, 'mimic' natural sounds?”

I applied ideas from the soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause, the polymath Wolfgang von Goethe, and the artist Emeka Ogboh to the development process of Rhythms of Nature.

Krause proposed that natural and man-made sounds are not created in the same way. Instead, they each have their unique patterns and frequencies.

Drawing from his experiences in music, he also used musical terminology in his research on natural soundscapes – his practice focusing on the overlap between music and acoustic ecology.

Ogboh’s artistic practice experimented with the ability of sound and art to “transport” people to different places.

For example, his installation Lagos State of Mind III (2017/2020) combined cityscape motifs with hybrid soundscapes made up of field recordings from Berlin and Lagos.

The result was a multisensory experience where you could see and hear “Lagos through Berlin’s eye and vice versa”.

I translated two fundamental aspects of Organic Space into the development of Rhythms of Nature: the soundscapes and the animations.

Both the ‘aquatic’ and ‘terrestrial’ soundscapes are made up of two components:

Multiple biophonic (sounds made by non-human organisms) and geophonic (sounds made by non-biological phenomena such as weather, water and geological processes) sounds, which were field recordings

Two musical tracks per soundscape, with four musical tracks total (created in the program Ableton)

While I retained some tracks from the creation of Organic Space, I created multiple new field recordings and musical tracks, arranging all the audio files into a more multilayered soundscape.

I also created several newer animations alongside one or two of the animations from Organic Space, both being created on the program Procreate.

All the animations were inspired by natural textures, colours, motions, and forms within aquatic and terrestrial environments.

This time, I wanted to experiment with a broader spectrum of textures, colours and frame rate in the animations.

Both components form the projected short film for Rhythms of Nature, a looped narrative sequence shortened from ~4mins to ~2 mins for greater narrative cohesion and impact.

In his book Theory of Colours (1810), Goethe suggested that darkness is just as crucial to the visual experience as light and colour.

He believed that colour resulted from the interplay between darkness and light, therefore, “colour itself is a degree of darkness”.

The third and most challenging aspect was approaching the installation of Rhythms of Nature.

Drawn from Goethe’s theories, darkness and negative space play a significant role in how my projected film interacts with its surroundings.

In one of my initial plans, I explored projection-mapping onto white ceramic sculptures, translating animated forms into a 3D space.

Due to my limited skills in ceramics and wanting to focus on creating a more cohesive installation, I took fabric strips, cut at multiple different lengths, and layered them in rows to resemble ocean waves and a tree canopy.

This arrangement also allows the short film to exist in three spaces:

The first space is formed by the surfaces of the fabric and the wall, where the film exists as ‘light’.

The second space is formed by shadows cast by the fabric, where the film exists as ‘darkness’.

The third space is formed by the translucency of the short film within the shadows, where it exists as ‘colour’.

I would expect members of the audience to experience the installation in ways that are unique to them: some will experience the immersive soundscapes more than the visual aspects, some will be drawn to the visual aspects, and some will experience both equally.

Link to all of the research and process documentation for this project (search under the following tag: #year 3 art studio project 2): www.tumblr.com/aangussca

Installation documentation (full video):

(Please ignore the small periodic clicks as they were not part of the soundscape.)

Soundscape and short film (on its own):

Installation documentation (photos):

Research references

Crary, Johnathan. “Subjective Vision and the Separation of the Senses.” In Techniques of the observer: on vision and modernity in the 19th century, 67–96. Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1990.

Dinneen, James. “Sounds of the forest.” New Scientist, May 18, 2024.

Krause, Bernie., and Roger Payne. “The Language of Soundscapes: New Words for Old Sounds.” In Wild Soundscapes : Discovering the Voice of the Natural World, 55-68. Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2016.

Ogboh. "Ten Minutes with Emeka Ogboh: On Active Listening." In MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), July 14, 2023. Podcast, website, 9:37. https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/923.

[slog-the-book]

australian university students are so cooked. wdym we have to be paying more than 10% internet rate for our HECS 😭 can somebody kill off our fat red politicians already 😭😭

[i-remain-convinced]

[a-suspicious-lack-of-bagel]

The chamber of secrets has been opened

enemies of loud noises beware (it's where i stashed the percussion)

[sodiumstudies]

just received an offer to study a double degree in law and science at the University of Sydney!

however I’m not sure if this is the right choice for me as I know the course will be very academically rigorous and I haven’t done any science-y subjects in 3!! Years!!

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[kavehayati]

THAT EXAM WAS SO GOOD OMGGG

[thewizardsummer]

Statue of Hermes from the Nicholson Collection in Chau Chak Wing Museum at USYD. The statue was donated by the sons of Sir Charles Nicholson to celebrate the centenary of the arrival of their father to Australia in 1834. It is believed to have been found near Smyrna in Turkey. This statue is at the very least two thousand years old!

https://vivavoceyork.co.uk/2023/01/20/the-effect-of-christianity-on-ancient-statues/?amp=1

[waybackwanderer]

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Vallis Alps - Young

In the end Time forever favours the young

[aangussca]

Art Studio 2 Projection/installation test 3 (14.11.24)

Tape markings for hung fabric placement (serves as a practice install)

Installation shots