3D Context-spacematics with gridded blobs (the absence of an horizon remixed), 03m:21s, Alex Gibson, 2010

The Drawing Machine, 2010

The Drawing Machine, 2010, was written in the Processing programming language using Intel's Computer Vision library. It translates video, still images and realtime webcam into layered line drawings of various qualities; including soft to hard lines, thick or thin, colour, curved or straight, translucent or opaque, fast or slow, etc. The code functions like a conceptual drawing, providing instructions to the machine which then uses data from the visual world to render realistic or abstract images/video.

Rodeo Study

Video, 10 x 3mtrs, 17mins, Alex Gibson 2010

Maybe it’s just a bunch of brazen artists; guns-ready-with-nothing-to-lose wannabe cowboys looking for an escape in the digital age.

You can look at the risks involved in a Rodeo and think that it is an archaic sport of animal cruelty, spurred on by an Australian subculture that exists outside of any capital city. The Rodeo ideal evokes mixed feelings of senseless risks and hyper-masculine archetypes that are well dated and should have possibly died out with the Gladiators. Yet miraculously, the Rodeo culture is alive and bucking. The G&W Rodeo Project’s event Heterodoxia is the investigation of the Rodeo paradox.

Comprising digital, new media and performance technologies, Heterodoxia is a complex group of works exploring the murky ideas of male pageantry in this post-gender world.

Michael Meneghetti, Joel Gailer, Alex Gibson, Ted Mckinlay, Jonathon Hutchinson, Carl Anderson, Ross Cottee and the Timezones, James Kenyon, Al Mac-Innes and Karl Cottee roam wild through medium, idea and rural Victoria to deliver a taste to Melbourne for one night only.

Heterodoxia is a 2010 Next Wave Festival Event

Supporters: The Keir Foundation, 1000 £ Bend, Michael Koro Galleries and MPW