Update: Our Live Feeding 2008 page is archived here…

Performers

Philip Samartzis + Marcia Jane
Marcia Jane: Trace is a backtrack through my personal video history; fragments from recordings I’ve made in the past. No effects, just mixed to produce a vibratory, pulsating painterly image. Phil’s abstracted sounds are the trigger,
I am ‘tuning in’ on them and the process becomes one of feedback and synergy. [microphonics.org] [permutations.net]

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Rosalind Hall + Marco Cher-Gibard
Gritty and grainy audiovisual structures via saxophone and computer. [myspace.com/marcochergibard]

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Helmet Head (Anthony Magen + Rod Cooper)
Anthony Magen: I make messes, charge forward till the edge is reached, then work out which way to jump next… this is an endless source of joy, tribulation and stimulation. Rod Cooper: I find comfort in dissonance & abstraction, Helmet Head is my way of combining these while collaborating with others. Comfort in dissonance, solace in abstraction. Art has nothing to do with understanding it’s about appreciation. It fits in a suitcase, it can be carried in one hand onto a plane, it’s worn as a head dress and you can watch films on it.

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XeNoSiNe AV
XeNoSiNe Audio Visual is a project created by Vijay Thillaimuthu in which sonic and visual analogue debris is generated and combined through a series of processes involving signal feedback. The result is voltage that can be experienced visually and aurally simultaneously, each sense affecting the other in a synaesthetic relationship. The severe sensory stimulation of merged audio and vision, when combined with elements of ‘death’ free-jazz improvisation, is the desired vehicle for the goal of total immersion. Trance-inducing matter is thusly forged from the mythic soul soup… (from which all creativity emerges…). [http://www.myspace.com/xenosine]

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Installation Artists

Christina Tester
Bird Speak: A sense of mutual understanding.

Above the earth, below the sky
From the mouth of an endless breeze
The chattering of birds filters down
Through the canopy of trees
into the ears of earthly beings
such a peculiar species!

A 6 channel site-specific sound installation.

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Ceri Hann
The provision of overhead projectors for a low tech real time shadow puppet show. Choreographed by those inspired enough to choose their own adventure in navigating the light and shadow with other willing participants. White board markers, bent wire line drawing and some mirrors supplied, B.Y.O. crazy shapes….

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Melody Henderson
Arganic specimens: 80 slides assembled using a combination of organic and artificial found materials, and materialised using an analogue slide projector. The specimens create visual metaphors for the blending of nature as it exists with the artificial products of industry, technology and science. Melody Henderson is an AV artist and photographer currently studying at RMIT’s School of Art.

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Idora Alhabshi
Access granted II: stageplay
Loop projections of live action using video projector and CCTV camera.

Idora Alhabshi is a media artist and director. Her work includes single-channel video art, multi-channel video installations, art-house short films, and photography.

Her debut work in 2002 was an installation art piece The Lost Prayer, which was selected by the Balai Seni Lukis Negara (the National Art Gallery, Malaysia) for the Sonneratia II exhibition. She went onto pursuing 2 more group shows at the Gallery, including one of the finalist for the Young Contemporary Artist Awards 2004. She describes the highlight of her work so far as an experimental video, entitled Free, which premiered at the Asian-American International Film Festival in New York and was subsequently selected for screened at Berlinale 2005. The film was chosen for screening at the first Malaysian Film Festival in Singapore. Idora is currently attaining her Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Media Arts at RMIT University in Melbourne.

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Lisa Shingles
Lisa Shingles is an installation and performance artist currently traversing the globe but usually studying at RMIT’s School of Art.

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Marden
Fjorn Butler is a sound, installation and performance artist currently studying at RMIT’s School of Art.

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Musical Interludes

Your dinner soundtrack by Dinesh de Silva

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Volunteers

Harry Aletras
Jung Moon
Hava Nuhija
Michael Pulsford
Layla Vardo

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Food + Drink

Organic eats by Organarchy.
All natural, chemical-free, sustainable beers by The Good Brew.

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Thankyou

RMIT Orientation Committee
RMIT Union Arts
RMIT Media Arts (School of Art)
RMIT Sound Art (School of Art)
Cherie Green
Ceri Hann
Melody Henderson
Rob Harding

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Stream Collective

Marco Cher-Gibard [myspace.com/marcochergibard]
Lewis Gittus
Rosalind Hall
Marcia Jane [permutations.net]
Christina Tester

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