Nigel Helyer

NIGEL HELYER
UK/Australia
Time of residency 2002
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The residency of Nigel Helyer resulted in "Host" - in which an audience of several hundred live Crickets attend a lecture concerning the sex life of insects. The lecture (by Dr Stuart Bunt – SymbioticA Scientific Director) is manifest as two wall sized DVD images projected through an array of insect cages. One DVD portrays a highly pixilated image of the lecturers face and has a sound track recorded directly from the speaker’s voice. The second soundtrack was recorded via electrodes connected directly to the aural nerve of a Cricket as it listened to the sex lecture. The recorded signal was then processed via an oscilloscope to give both a visual and sonic display of the insects’ nervous activity.

3 month residency funded through New Media Fellowship from the Australia Council.

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