http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/01/04/3093947.htm?site=perth&ref=fb-top3-perth-regional-landing Spot a feral animal today and help create a national map; Feral Month is an experiment in ‘citizen science’ where we ask you, the audience, to report any feral animal sightings across the country during the month of January. Whether you have spotted feral camels in Oodnadatta, cane toads in Townsville or feral cats …
Introduced starlings are found in all states of Australia apart from WA (when found here, they are subject to border control). These ones are at Otmoor, near Oxford. I can’t think of any other birds that flock like this in Australia except budgies when they have had a good season. There was another video …
Since February 2009 I have been working as Artist in Residence at the Murdoch University School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences. In the next few months I am having two exhibitions called In vetland. The first is at the Newcastle Art Space from Monday 12 July to 2 August 2009. Later, in August-September, In …
From a small miniature from India
Amateur footage by CFA volunteer David Tree http://player.video.news.com.au/theaustralian/?WbReiP1p5ONg3JLSMRELswy8O9r9Yt5Z
This work by Nina Katchadourian (I have reproduced a screen grab below) invites you to make a scale from cutest to ugliest animal by shifting around these image tiles. You can see that there are opposing parties working here trying to confirm or undermine mainstream notions of cute. Which animal do you most identify …
Over the last few years I have been investigating the boundaries between the human and nonhuman worlds — how people both relate to and represent animals in the wild, in zoos and museums. As a sculptor I am interested in their material and spatial presence in the world, but my work is generally driven initially …
Well here we are at the beginning of the 2009 art meets science residency at the vet school. At this stage I have proposed two parts, or projects in the residency. The first relates to making 5 ‘secret portraits’ exploring the notions of public and private, fact and fantasy, part of my ongoing exploration …
I have been working on a possible exhibition opportunity for a show about the 300th anniversary of Linnaeus. Researching Linnaeus I came across some references to his classing of minerals, fossils and crystals. In this case Linnaeus’s system was never adopted. I am thinking about combining it with the bowerbird’s classification of stones in …