INFLIGHT PRESENTS: Wind Me Up

04 Wind Me Up

limen n. (Psych) = THRESHOLD; hence liminal a.
(L limen liminis = threshold, representing G schwelle)

Created in 2003, Wind My Up is an interactive installation whereby a modified metronome is the user interface and timekeeper. It is a meditation on the liminal and on the observation of the passing of time. The only difference between a digital metronome and a mechanical one is that you have to wind a mechanical metronome. This breaks the experience of continuous, measurable time; the time it takes to wind the mechanism necessitates an interruption of the flow of observed rhythm. Corby has used a range of photographic devices, including: digital camera, traditional SLR film camera, a toy Lomographic camera to explore the theme. She has extended the idea with video and Time Lapse; taking footage every few minutes over a day in "real time," faking time lapse in an editing programme, and with the 4 frame lomograph, 4 frames in sequence over 1 second. The metronome is on a plinth and the user invited to wind it. This triggers various projections whose content explores the emotional threshold of intimate and embodied experience of time passing.

Moira Corby is an artist whose work encompasses philosophical enquiry into being and time. She uses a range of media, and likes to immerse the viewer in a participatory experience.

Corby has recently been described as a pioneer digital artist in Darren Toft's book Interzone: Media Arts in Australia. Along with awards from the Australian Film Commission and Australia Council, she has also received a 1999 Australian Teachers and Media (ATOM) Award for her CD-ROM, Girls Own Girl Zone Interactive (GOGZI). Corby is currently researching the development and deployment of external trigger devices in multimedia art installation and is also a "visual instrument" in improvisational jazz band Viaduct, where she combines drawing and live data projection with music.

Corby's work has toured in Asia with the group show Alternative Realities, in conjunction with Asia Link and Melbourne University (1995-97). In 2001, the interactive work Roost was installed in Unearthed, curated by Experimenta and Bendigo Regional Art Gallery. During this exhibit the audience pulled origami mouths to trigger audio and visual story projection about people and place. In the 2006 light-box installation, Missed, clear vision is thwarted in the act of experiencing the work. Glasses that normally function to focus, when used in this work, further distort and misinterpret the subject, her son Daniel. In Missed, it is the soundscape that reveals to the audience who he is.

INFLIGHT PRESENTS is a new initiative from INFLIGHT A.R.I showcasing the work of established artists whose work continues to be innovative and experimental. As a means of broadening the context for new and emerging artists, INFLIGHT is actively seeking out art practioners who are pioneers in their chosen fields and inviting them to exhibit seminal works for new audiences in the Project Space of our Hobart gallery.

address
InFlight Elizabeth Street
237 Elizabeth St, Hobart TAS 7000
artists
Moira Corby – Artist