a slow evening of poetry and video in the Canberra Museum and Gallery theatrette, including the premier screening of a digital video, Call this moment, by Tim Brook and Owen Bullock that highlights Owen’s contemporary haiku
The video, Call this moment, combines readings of contemporary haiku by Owen Bullock with a slowly evolving digital video by Tim Brook. Spoken words, layered with meaning, interact with layers of images,inviting you to make your own connections. The result is both complex and contemplative.
The evening is all about making connections and allowing your own imagination to fly free.
A group exhibition in the 2019 Design Canberra festival, including Bad Keys, a code art work by Tim Brook and Caren Florance
Subvert and convert the online hurt
Bad Keys builds on Florance’s research into online misogyny and trolling. This work uses systems of communication to explore ways to subvert and convert the hurt that we often carry around with us after encountering insults and verbal attacks online.
Abstraction is the main strategy: words morph into webs of lines that simultaneously disconnect and connect. This is unloading, not downloading.
an exhibition of works by Caren Florance at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre, including Bad Keys, code art works made in collaboration with Tim Brook
Subvert and convert the online hurt
Line Work builds on Florance’s research into online misogyny and trolling. This exhibition uses new and old systems of communication to explore ways to subvert and convert the hurt that we often carry around with us after encountering insults and verbal attacks in person and online.
Abstraction is the main strategy: words morph into webs of lines that simultaneously disconnect and connect. This is unloading, not downloading.
A digital video installation by Tim Brook and Arne Hanna in Gallery 2 at M16 Artspace, Griffith ACT
Quiet, contemplative and immersive, Australian Landscapes is a digital video installation that invites your imagination. It evokes memories of quiet moments in inland Australia, when you become absorbed in the visual richness of surface details. Very slowly, the work reveals a delicacy of detail and a harshness of ground so characteristic of the Australian inland.
A screening at PhotoAccess, including a multimedia work by Tim Brook and Arne Hanna
Fire Station is a multimedia work based on material at the Canberra Fire Museum. It’s presented as a digital video loop but not as a conventional narrative. Instead, the work uses layers of images and sounds to evoke something of the experiences of our firefighters—a few hints of their sporadic dramas; some suggestion of their daily routines and accumulated memories.
An exhibition at the ANU School of Art Gallery, Ellery Crescent, Acton ACT, curated by Ruth Hingston for the centenary of Canberra, including Fire Station, a multimedia work by Tim Brook and Arne Hanna
This exhibition highlights the variety and inventiveness of professional artists who live and work in Canberra. It includes works in a wide range of media, from embroidery to digital animation. Each work in the exhibition draws on material from a local collection of cultural material. Each celebrates an aspect of the lives and experiences of real Canberrans, people who have worked, raised families, played sport, made art and created communities, unaffected by the antics of the fly-in-fly-out politicians whose pronouncements are routinely attributed to a mythical ‘Canberra’.
A screening at PhotoAccess, Manuka ACT, of a digital animation by Tim Brook, Ruth Hingston and Alistair Riddell
Slow, quirky and very Canberra, Untitled Moments is a digital animation based on embroidery.
Untitled Moments is a collaborative project exploring the visual impact of embroidery and photography in a digital animation. We’ve used digital technologies to combine images and sound to create narrative fragments—imagined incidents drawn from our observations of Canberra’s most unremarkable moments.
The resulting work does not attempt to mimic cartoons or conventional animations. It’s a pastiche, an idiosyncratic mixture of embroidery, drawing, watercolour, photography, scanography, digital animation, field recordings and digitally generated sounds. The final effect is sometimes contemplative, sometimes deliberately cheesy.
An exhibition at PhotoAccess, Griffith ACT as part of Vivid, the national photography festival, including an installation by Ruth Hingston and Tim Brook with Lea Collins
An artist’s talk at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, including screenings of Works in Progress, a slide-tape sequence by Tim Brook and Arne Hanna after works by Ruth Hingston
Works in Progress is one result of a Hill End residency—a description of the residency—a description where nothing is spelt out. A slowly evolving sequence of still images, rich and alluring, invites you to make connections and imagine your own stories. It offers hints about some of the things an artist does to arrive at a body of new work.
A concert of visual music in the Canberra Festival, at the National Film and Sound Archive, Acton ACT, including slide-tape works by Tim Brook
This concert is a thoughtful blend of sound and image.
Low tech and alluring, each of the works screened, each little piece, shows how small change can make for greater seeing.
Sounds and images are taken from life and gently reshaped.
Each work is an invitation to make connections; to imagine; to tell stories.
Visual music is for adults whose brains are still alive.
A concert of audio-visual works at the Australian Centre for The Arts and Technology, Acton ACT, including Lines, a slide-tape piece by Tim Brook and Arne Hanna
A concert of electronic and multimedia arts in the Everest Theatre at the Seymour Centre, Sydney NSW, including About Time!, a slide-tape work by Tim Brook and Adrian Keenan
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