John Tonkin :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online

creator of

Prototype for a Universal Ideology

Medium: Installation
URL: http://scanlines.net/node/3275
: http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1297

The spoken theory of each user becomes the raw material for a process analogous to the genetic recombination of DNA ...

creator of

My own Worst Enemy

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Medium: Video
URL: http://scanlines.net/node/4585
: http://www.vimeo.com/15555506

digital video, 10” photo frame, digital file on DVD, 8 minutes.
Artist statement:
This work grew out of my playing around with a 1960’s camera macro bellows attached to an HD camera …

creator of

Nervous System

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Medium: digital artwork
URL: http://scanlines.net/node/4584
: http://www.vimeo.com/7751252

HD documentation
Marine grade stainless steel, LED interactive software, 1360 mm height
An interactive public artwork developed as part of the Southport Broadwater Parklands Redevelopment in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
The work is made up of twenty light and sound emitting poles that respond to their surroundings and each other …

Courtesy of: Scanlines

creator of

time and motion study

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Medium: Installation
URL: http://scanlines.net/node/3384
: http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1419

time and motion study uses contemporary technology to further investigate the time and motion studies of 1800’s scientist/inventors such as Marey and Muybridge and the later technologies of strobe photography and video effects …

creator of

Cardiomorphologies v. 1

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Medium: video installation, sound, installation, computer programming
Tags: Heartrate, Breath, Body, Interactive

Collaborative work. Interactive installation in which devices measured participants’ heart rate and breathing patterns, which generated a changing visual projection and sound scape.

Note: Developed Java-based visualisation system

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