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Time Sketches by Andy Polaine

Article released: Friday, 10 March, 2006

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Andy Polaine Head of COFA's School of Media Arts along with Alexa Wright (Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Art, Research and Technology Education at the University of Westminster in London) will be discussing the relationship between emotion and interaction in their art practice in a seminar to be held on Wednesday the 22nd March at the Powerhouse Museum, in Sydney.

Time Sketches a new work by Andy Polaine, installed in 'beta_space' in the Cyberworlds area of the Powerhouse Museum will be screened from 4:30 – 5:00pm on the 22nd of March and will be followed by the emotion and interaction seminar in the Powerhouse's Education Rooms.

Time Smear and Time Slicer two new works by Polaine from his Time Sketches series are live video works that play with the construct of time that, in Polaine's hands, become chopped up fragments that are then stretched back out across space resulting in a 'digital hall of mirrors.'

Polaine’s practice is focused on creating genuinely interactive works. He explains: "I'm interested in the moment of interaction more than the images that get produced. Time Slicer much like an 80s video mixer freezes frames in a sequence and keeps doing so over and over. I noticed when I was playing with this and showing others, that people really started to have fun and try out different ways of chopping up their bodies and faces with the camera frame."