NAOMI OLIVER Viridescent

Single-channel video projection (3m x 2.5m), 3 mins (looped) 2021-22 Mountains Style @ McKeown’s Antiques Emporium, Mt Victoria

Viridescent is a looped video collection of short, experimental digital animations, glitches and coded textures. This luminous work fills one large segmented window of Mountains Style Antiques at McKeown’s Emporium with a large-scale rear-projection onto a fabric screen. The pieces included in this short-form video-loop merge silently from abstracted texture to texture. Some animations are conspicuous in their movement, some are incredibly subtle, changing minutely over their duration. The strangeness of this green, glowing imagery may invoke scenes of luminous sea-life, ghost-mushrooms or alien lifeforms. Techniques used to create this green-hued collection include Google Deepdream, Javascript coding and 'databending' (opening and manipulating a visual file format in an audio program, which will alter the visuals once exported back to an image again).

 

Performance @ Rhomboid Studio

Sunday 24 April 5pm TICKETS

Single-channel video projection, recorded sound, vocal performance 10 mins 2022

Image: Viridescent 2

This solo performance is a combination of experimental music, sound and video art with visuals consisting of dream-like, abstracted video synthesis textures, coded animation, and imagery manipulated using glitch-art techniques and over-processing. Gentle Lumen colour gradients overlay low-fidelity, grainy animations inspired by refracted light; during 'Watch the Witch’ the glitched video is taken from a performance to camera, the reversed and multiplied figure of the artist spinning among leaves in a red costume. The sound component is a selection of songs created between 2007 and 2022, incorporating vocals, distorted cassette audio tape recordings, feedback and synthesiser. Presented here as one long-form piece, the audio composition is generally slow-paced and of a peaceful (yet deceivingly frenetic) disposition. 

 

Lumiere Immersive Space for Children

Victoria & Albert Hotel, See EVENTS page for sessions. Gold coin donation. Suitable for 5yrs+ Please note: the immersive space will be managed by Naomi and/or another adult with all required child safety clearances. Parents/Carers, please remain in the venue while your child is in the space.

Naomi will facilitate an immersive, interactive, creative experience for children, specially curated for Lumière, in the Victoria & Albert Hotel. The V& A’s salon will transform into a fun, colourful, light-filled space, encouraging imaginative and sensory play, including RGB lighting for colour and shadow experimentation, and interactive light-table activities. Participants will learn about colour mixing, composition, refraction, and creating art with light projection. Children become collaborative artists and shape the installation's appearance, using prisms, coloured gels, shadow shapes, and more to produce layered projections in the space. They will document their visual experiments via photography and video. These are inclusive, accessible events, providing supported, safe, exploratory spaces for children 5 years and over.

Naomi Oliver's art practice is based around experimental digital video and animation,sound, creative coding, and performance art. A major theme in her work is glitch art, often achieved through the corruption of digital files in order to enable unexpected audio or visual results. Oliver is interested in combining analog and digital mediums/processes when creating experimental pieces, often incorporating older, more physically-fallible technologies in her practice - such as VHS tape and audio cassette tape.  Oliver contributed to Vivid Sydney projects in 2017 and 2018. For the last ten years, she has exhibited work and collaborated with artists in both Australia and internationally, and was an artist-in-residence at Arteles Creative Centre in Hämeenkyrö, Finland (2011) and The Lock-up Gallery art residency in Newcastle, NSW (2011). Completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in 2003 at the University of Western Sydney, she currently lives and works in the Blue Mountains.

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