Interactive Entertainment 2014 – Fun and Games
Interactive Entertainment is Australasia’s longest running games and digital entertainment conference. IE2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the conference which is hosted this year by the University...
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PoZi: Sonic Posture Awareness Stephen Barrass 1pm – 2.30pm 17th November 2014 UC-RISE Theatrette University of Canberra Wearable sensors are increasingly used in sports, health, fitness, training and...
View ArticleDesign Interaction Environment @ Make Hack Void
This semester I ran the Digital Masters unit on Design Interaction Environment at the new Make Hack Void Community Space overlooking Lake Ginninderra in Belconnen, which has amazing views to distract...
View ArticleCurrents 2015 New Media Festival
My acoustic 3D printing works have been curated for the Currents International New Media Festival in Santa Fe, June 12 through Sunday, June 28. The annual, citywide CURRENTS New Media Festival offers...
View ArticleMusify + Gamify @ Vivid
Patsy the Playful Pouf-doodle is in the Musify + Gamify exhibition as part of the Vivid Festival in Sydney, opening May 26. Patsy the Designer Pouf-doodle is a musification of a piece of furniture....
View ArticleUbiquitous Music
Sixth Workshop on Ubiquitous Music (VI UbiMus): From Digital Arts to Ubiquitous Music. The Sixth Workshop on Ubiquitous Music will take place for the first time outside South America, more precisely...
View ArticleICAD 2015
ICAD is a highly interdisciplinary conference with relevance to researchers, practitioners, artists, and graduate students working with sound to convey and explore information. The conference is...
View Article17C : Glass of Coolth
17C : Glass of Coolth Medium: Glass (Nadege Desgenetez) and Phase Change Salts (Stephen Barrass) 17C is a glass vessel that stores coolth against the climate change predictions for rising summer...
View ArticleTeaspoon Chandelier
Teaspoon Chandelier by Stephen Barrass @ Mobile Makers – (photo Timothy Fulton) The Teaspoon Chandelier is a collection of souvenir teaspoons from a deceased estate that have been wired together to...
View ArticleScribblygum3D, Mt.Ainslie
Scribblygum, Mt Ainslie The “ghost scribblings” on the Gum Trees on Mount Ainslie are traces left by the larvae of the Scribbly Gum Moth (Ogmograptis Scribula) as it feeds and grows below the bark. The...
View ArticleScribblygum Cabinet
This photo of a scribblygum was traced with a graphics tablet connected to Inkscape, and saved it as a PDF format file. The file was then converted to Numerical Control format used to control an...
View ArticleListening to the Ngunawal – Simon Rose
Simon Rose blends data sonification, soundscape, and documentary interviews, in his Honours Project in the Bachelor of Media Arts and Design at the University of Canberra. Filed under: composition,...
View ArticleBEAN 2015
The Bioscience Education Australia Network (BEAN) is meeting at the Shine Dome in Canberra from 8-10 December, 2015. As an opening for the BEAN meeting on Creating the Future I have put together a...
View ArticlePavillion X
Click to view slideshow. Pavilion X is a site specific temporary design intervention in the centre of Canberra conceived as a catalyst for conversations about urban renewal, public space and...
View ArticleChemo Singing Bowl
The Chemo singing bowl is 3D printed from a year of blood pressure recorded during chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. This version of the acoustic sonification singing bowl introduces 3D...
View ArticleICAD 2016
The International Conference on Auditory Display will be in Canberra in July 2016. The human perception of useful information through listening to data is becoming increasingly important for...
View ArticleHearing a Gene of Hearing
Hearing a Gene of Hearing premiered in the concert programme at the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), in Canberra in July 2016. The piece was performed by the ANU Experimental...
View ArticleData Beanie
The ‘data beanie’ is knitted from possum fur and designed to keep your head warm in the frosty mid winter mornings in Canberra. This beanie is computer knitted from punch-cards that encode data...
View ArticlePhase Change Tiles @ Embracing Innovation 6
Embracing Innovation Volume 6: Technology, research and design thinking in creative practice CraftACT Craft and Design Centre Gallery Opening 6.00pm Thursday 21 July 2016 The sixth in the series,...
View ArticleTeaspoon Chandelier
Teaspoon Chandelier by Stephen Barrass @ Mobile Makers – (photo Timothy Fulton) The Teaspoon Chandelier is a collection of souvenir teaspoons from a deceased estate that have been wired together to...
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