YEAR: 2005-8
ROLE: Artistic Director (Transmute Collective)
FORMAT: Dual Site Interactive Installation With Projections, Sound & Furniture
WITH: The Transmute Collective: Lisa O'Neill (Performance), Guy Webster (Sound), COLLABORATING WITH Zeljko Markov (Furniture/Interface), Stuart Lawson (3D), Marcos Caceres & Cameron Owen (Code), Ben Foley (Design), Pia Ednie-Brown & Inger Mewburn (Haptic design). (Full Credit List Here).

WHAT: Intimate Transactions is a new form of interactive installation that allows two people in geographically separate spaces to interact simultaneously using only their bodies.Each participant uses a physical interface called a ‘Bodyshelf’. By gently moving their bodies on this ‘smart furniture’, they instigate ‘intimate transactions’, which influence an evolving ‘world’ created from digital imagery, multichannel sound and tactile feedback. This shared experience allows each participant to gradually develop a form of sensory intimacy with the other, despite the fact that they are geographically separated and cannot physically see or hear each other.

Participants may choose to act in different ways as they begin to understand how their actions affect everything within the environment AND the other participant. The work focuses participants on understanding influences and relationships within the work's ecologies.

Intimate Transactions has been recognised internationally for its excellence and innovation within the genre of new media art. It was awarded an Honorary Mention in the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica Competition and was shown in 2005 at the Ars Electronic Festival, Austria, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and BIOS, Athens, Greece. Intimate Transactions has been selected to represent Australia at the Olympic Arts Festival in Beijing in 2008, and has most recently been presented at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It was developed over four years with the support of two major research and
development grants.
BUY the 136pp colour book and DVD ' Intimate Transactions: Art, Exhibition and Interaction Within Distributed Networked Environments'.

SHOWING HISTORY:
11: Group Exhibition (Site 1), Media Art China (An Olympics Cultural Festival Event), 10 June- 3 July, 2008. (Site 1) National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), No. 1 Wusi Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100010, P.R. China & (Site 2) The Imperial City Art Museum, Beijing. (+ Site 3 located at CalPoly University, California, USA for two hours per morning).
10: Solo Exhibition (Site 1), 15-22 July, 2006, Brisbane 2006 International Arts Festival, The Block, QUT CI Precinct, Brisbane, Australia & Solo Exhibition (Site 2), On Edge Arts Festival, COCA (Cairns Centre For Contemporary Art), Cairns, Australia.
9: Solo Exhibition (Site 1), 4-6 June, 2007, California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI), University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), Santa Barbara, USA & (Site 2), California Polytechnic State University, Architecture Complex, San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
8: Dual Exhibition Sites at California Polytechnic State University, University Open Days, 18-22 April, 2007, San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
7: Solo Exhibition (Site 1), 15-22 July, 2006, 2006 Brisbane International Arts Festival, The Block, QUT CI Precinct, Brisbane, Australia & Solo Exhibition (Site 2), On Edge Arts Festival, COCA (Cairns Centre For Contemporary Art), Cairns, Australia.
6: Solo Exhibition (Site 1), 19-27 May, 2006, Artspace, Sydney, Australia & Solo Exhibition (Site 2), The Performance Space, Sydney, Australia.
5: Solo Exhibition (Site 1), 12-23 November, 2005, The Institute For Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK & Solo Exhibition (Site 2), BIOS, (New Synthesis of Urban Culture), Athens, Greece.
4: Dual Exhibition Sites at Ars Electronica Festival, 1–19 September 2005, OK Centrum, CyberArts 2005 Exhibition, Linz, Austria. Curated by Genoveva Rueckert.
3: Solo Exhibition (Site 1), 25 April–1 May, 2005 The Australian Centre For the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, Australia & Transfigure/Body Exhibition (Site 2), The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, Australia.
2: Dual Exhibition Sites at B.Tween Festival, Digital Knowledge Exchange, 17–18 February, 2005, High Melton, South Yorkshire, UK.
1: Dual Exhibition Sites at The National Review of Live Art/New Territories Festival, 9–11 March, 2005.

Read Review in Artlink Magazine
Read Review in Realtime Magazine
Tour Ready Documents (Pdf)
Detailed Credits (Here)