Trick i-ey'e: Sound Vision and new Digital Artworks by Rachael Linton
1 February 2012 - 25 March 2012
AV Room
Exhibition Opening 31 January 6pm
Rachael Linton, Sound Vision (2008), Film
In 2008 New Zealand digital artist Rachael Linton produced the short film Sound Vision. Sound Vision explores the physical and psychological affects of colour, light and sound vibration and how they may be used as a means of therapy through film. The concept was realised and honed during Linton’s Master of Design thesis in Digital Media, 2009.
At Massey University in Wellington Linton conducted many design experiments to deduce imagery that may stimulate or soothe the response within the viewer. Cymatics, twirling dancers, flickering lights and writhing colours were united with harmonising vocal choirs and resonant sounds.
Linton believes that through viewers’ interaction with Sound Vision meditative states may be encouraged and people may realise their capacity to heal themselves. She believes that through continuing research and development of her ideas ‘film therapy formulas’ may be revealed which are capable of re-tuning and healing human ailments by balancing the physical, psychological and spiritual systems.
Linton's new works entice people to interact with physical and non-physical space with ease. The three spinning kinetic artworks titled ‘Turning Phenomena’ appear differently as changing vibrational frequencies alter peoples' perception of the work. In this triptych series the viewer is encouraged to view the spinning artworks through their own mobile devices - phones and cameras - and compare what they see through their naked eye to what they see on the screen of their device.
Rachael Linton would like to thank RMP for their technical support towards Trick i-ey'e