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The Hidden Image Life of Lenses
Optical image system artwork.
Dates
8 - 29 Jun 2024Galleries
Gallery TwoFREE Opening Event
4-6pm, Saturday 8 June, 2024
The Hidden Image Life of Lenses is an optical image system which emerged from an encounter with a series of seventeenth-century telescopic lenses.
Witnessing these historical objects, they seemed to hold an invisible charge- where all that they had seen seemed to be looking back at me.
The image system is a speculative tool for making visible the charge I sensed emanating from the lenses. The installed work creates a dreamscape scenario where we witness the lenses’ dreams, an interaction which enables the charge of the lens be transferred from its material form into the perceptual realm of the viewer.
This exhibition is presented in partnership with ISEA2024.
Optical design assistance: Dr Dale Otten, Laser Physics and Photonics Devices Laboratories, University of South Australia (UniSA). Technical assistance: Mr Mark Cherrill, Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF-SA), Mr Rodney Pratt, Future Industries Institute, UniSA, and Mr Rahul Sathiyamoorthi and Mr Matt Cook, STEM, UniSA.
The artists
Deirdre Feeney
Deirdre Feeney is a cross-disciplinary artist and lecturer of Contemporary Art at The University of South Australia. Her research interests include the materiality of image making, media archaeology and the history of optics. Deirdre’s practice-based research collaborates across disciplines of physics and fabrication and electronic engineering to develop optical image systems. These optical systems serve as perceptual tools for generating awareness of technologically mediated experience.
Her creative works are hybrid systems incorporating old and new technologies and technological ideas, from Renaissance natural magic to nineteenth century optical mechanics. With a background in glass-making and the projected moving image, Deirdre uses materials such as glass and mirror to develop image systems that physically and emotionally engage the viewer. Deirdre’s works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and she has been the recipient of several Australian residencies and artist fellowships.
This project is presented in partnership with ISEA2024.
