Experimentation and Research Based Arts Practice

Dr Catherine FargherDr Egg Digital Project

City of Sydney Cultural PrecinctSuite 1/level 2, 66 Oxford St

Darlinghurstwww.dreggdigital.com

Hybrid ArtsNew Media/Hybrid Arts: • Cross-fertilisation of new technologies with

traditional creative art forms…. • Creative partnerships with non-arts sector players

including industry, science and technology. (Embodying the Information Age, 1998 Linda Wallace p 1)

Motherload – 2001 New Media R and D‘Feasible fictions and possible products’

Chromosome Knitting concept from the Motherload project. Illustration: ASCII text knitted body, created by Sarah Waterson Research and Development process exploring new genetic futures with Maude Davey and Heather Grace Jones and Dr Toni Roscioli.

Experimental Research and Development, HDR University of Wollongong

University of Wollongong: Three generations of creative works:

• First generation: original seeds: Bio-ethical fables

• Second generation: cross-fertilisation/hybrids: • Radio play , The Woman Who Knitted Herself a Child.• Puppetry and New Media, Dr Egg and The Man With No

Ear.

• Underpinning theoretical issues Hybrid/New Media Arts and concepts of evolution, mutation, hybridisation, metamorphosis and transformation within the natural and technological realm as they inform current arts practices.

Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear

Inter-species character

Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear – ‘the tank child’

University of Wollongong: Three generations of creative works:

• Third generation: extreme mutation: BioHome, the Chromosome Knitting Project. Performance/installation

Biohomeproject.netIncorporating Wet

biology, cell culturing practices, performance, audio and digital media in a Hybrid Arts project

exploring biotech ethics.

Salmon testes DNA knitting

4th Generation: The Dr Egg Adventures – trans-media storyworld

Trans-media possibilitiesProduct currently in development:• Interactive storybook and laboratory.

Further possibilities:• Animated TV series with Augmented

Reality (AR) tags, • Stand alone games, • Mobile cross-platform Apps, • Published books and graphic novels, • Toys and models.

The Dr Egg Adventures

Design: Chris More

Interactive Laboratory and Games

Design Chris More and Jonathon Oxlade