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PhD exegesis
Bennett, A 2016, The Shifting Surface in Digital Photography, creative practice PhD exegesis, Deakin University
“This creative practice as research project has investigated the question: given the dematerialisation of the photographic image, to what extent can a photograph be regarded as having a surface? Framed by the contexts of photography, materiality and surface, the creative investigation employed dialogic ‘making as thinking’ methods to generate innovation solutions.”
PhD exegesis
Bennett, A 2016, The Shifting Surface in Digital Photography, creative practice PhD exegesis, Deakin University
“This creative practice as research project has investigated the question: given the dematerialisation of the photographic image, to what extent can a photograph be regarded as having a surface? Framed by the contexts of photography, materiality and surface, the creative investigation employed dialogic ‘making as thinking’ methods to generate innovation solutions.”
Kingston Arts
Kingston Arts 2017, MIDSUMMA ‘muliebrity & other collaborations’ Alison Bennett
Kingston Arts
Kingston Arts 2017, MIDSUMMA ‘muliebrity & other collaborations’ Alison Bennett
Augmented Reality Art
Vincs, Bennett, McCormick, Vincent & Hutchinson, 2014, ‘Skin to Skin: Performing Augmented Reality’, in Augmented Reality Art, Springer Series on Cultural Computing, p.161-174.
Augmented Reality Art
Vincs, Bennett, McCormick, Vincent & Hutchinson, 2014, ‘Skin to Skin: Performing Augmented Reality’, in Augmented Reality Art, Springer Series on Cultural Computing, p.161-174.
Theorizing the Web
Bennett, A 2013, Shifting Skin, giclee prints with augmented reality overlay, exhibited at Theorizing the Web conference exhibition, New York City, 15-16 April 2014
Theorizing the Web
Bennett, A 2013, Shifting Skin, giclee prints with augmented reality overlay, exhibited at Theorizing the Web conference exhibition, New York City, 15-16 April 2014
RealTime
Priest, G 2014, ‘In Profile: Alison Bennett, Shifting Skin’, RealTime
“For the viewer it’s this moment of border crossing that is most exhilarating, but as the technology becomes increasingly utilised for commercial means […], the initial thrill may begin to normalise. Then it will be the content that becomes most important and artists like Bennett will hopefully lead the way, bending reality in ever more conceptually challenging ways.”
RealTime
Priest, G 2014, ‘In Profile: Alison Bennett, Shifting Skin’, RealTime
“For the viewer it’s this moment of border crossing that is most exhilarating, but as the technology becomes increasingly utilised for commercial means […], the initial thrill may begin to normalise. Then it will be the content that becomes most important and artists like Bennett will hopefully lead the way, bending reality in ever more conceptually challenging ways.”
Australia Council Experimental Arts
Experimental Arts 2014, ‘Shifting Skin: the art of augmented reality tattoos’, Australia Council Experimental Arts, Twitter, 27 Feb.
Australia Council Experimental Arts
Experimental Arts 2014, ‘Shifting Skin: the art of augmented reality tattoos’, Australia Council Experimental Arts, Twitter, 27 Feb.
ABC TV News
ABC TV News report, ‘Skin Deep Body Art’, 25 Feb 2014
ABC News online
Collins, A 2014, Tattooed technology exhibit gets under the skin as part of Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras visual arts festival’, ABC News online, 27 Feb
“… Bennett explores ideas around augmented reality and the collapsing boundaries between the physical and digital worlds.”
ABC News online
Collins, A 2014, Tattooed technology exhibit gets under the skin as part of Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras visual arts festival’, ABC News online, 27 Feb
“… Bennett explores ideas around augmented reality and the collapsing boundaries between the physical and digital worlds.”
AR[t]
Bennett, A 2013, ‘Shifting Skin’, AR[t]4, Netherlands, 19 Nov
“Watching visitors to the Shifting Skin exhibition as they contorted and danced in an arc before the exhibition prints highlighted the implications of augmented reality for the embodied viewer.”
Shifting Skin, 2013
Shifting Skin is an elegant statement on the collapsing boundaries between material and virtual via the connecting metaphor of skin. The uncannily flattened images of human surface were captured using a re-purposed flatbed scanner held directly against the subject’s body. When viewed through an app on a mobile screen, a 3D topography appears to project out of the print, a landscape of peaks and valleys describing the tonal scale within the surface of the subject, the terrain of scars, tattoos, skin tone and texture. Shifting Skin generated considerable international attention stemming from a retweet by cyberpunk author William Gibson and a report by Mashable.com that appeared in the Huffington Post. Shifting Skin toured regional Victorian galleries; was shown at the Cork Film Centre, Ireland & Theorizing the Web conference in NYC.
Shifting Skin, 2013
Shifting Skin is an elegant statement on the collapsing boundaries between material and virtual via the connecting metaphor of skin. The uncannily flattened images of human surface were captured using a re-purposed flatbed scanner held directly against the subject’s body. When viewed through an app on a mobile screen, a 3D topography appears to project out of the print, a landscape of peaks and valleys describing the tonal scale within the surface of the subject, the terrain of scars, tattoos, skin tone and texture. Shifting Skin generated considerable international attention stemming from a retweet by cyberpunk author William Gibson and a report by Mashable.com that appeared in the Huffington Post. Shifting Skin toured regional Victorian galleries; was shown at the Cork Film Centre, Ireland & Theorizing the Web conference in NYC.
International viral media coverage of Shifting Skin
Following a retweet by science fiction author William Gibson and a video report on Mashable.com, Shifting Skin received viral media coverage.
International viral media coverage of Shifting Skin
Following a retweet by science fiction author William Gibson and a video report on Mashable.com, Shifting Skin received viral media coverage.
William Gibson
retweet by science fiction author William Gibson, 25 Jul 2013 @GreatDismal photographic prints overlaid with augmented reality inspired by Spook Country http://t.co/iqbrDVOwOx pic.twitter.com/LlWbRBRn0q — Alison Bennett (@bennett_alison) July 25, 2013
William Gibson
retweet by science fiction author William Gibson, 25 Jul 2013 @GreatDismal photographic prints overlaid with augmented reality inspired by Spook Country http://t.co/iqbrDVOwOx pic.twitter.com/LlWbRBRn0q — Alison Bennett (@bennett_alison) July 25, 2013
Alison Bennett 