PROJECTS AND EVENTS BY ILLUMINART:
Showcasing current Illuminart projects, designed by Cindi Drennan, incorporating audiovisual art, screen sculpture, performance or other media. Visit the home page for other links to past projects and more information about Illuminart.
Fractured Heart for Gotye performance of "Somebody I used to know": Projection Mapping / Projection Sculpture - ARIA Awards 2011
Port Inhabited: Part of the 2011 Port Festival program, two nights of extraordinary animated projection on the colonial buildings of Lipson Street. October 8 & 9, 2011
Landed: Projection mapped onto Henty House, Launceston during the Junction 2010 National Regional Arts conference.
The Ribbon: Memories and stories by Murray Bridge residents, mapped onto the historic Town Hall. June 2010.
Harts Mill Inhabited:A historic building is a Storyteller, in the language of Architecture and Community Lore. Let us listen well. October 2009.
Yarta Purtli Projections: Opening night of Desert Fringe, March 2009.
Quorn Lights Up: Flinders Ranges Bush Festival 2009 Projection Art Feature, April 2009.
Promise: as beautiful by day as by night.
Jive-in Theatre: get inside your video.
Wish: Building as an illuminated storybook.
The Light Pirates: A luminous voyage.
ADELAIDE STUDIOS GALA LAUNCH - 20 October 2011. Architectural projection celebrating the official opening of the new South Australian Film Corporation studios at Glenside SA.
PORT INHABITED - 8, 9 Oct 2011. A projection art experience highlighting the historic and cultural heart of Port Adelaide SA.
CUTAWAY 2011: Cutaway is a three year project interdisciplinary arts project from 2011 to 2013, about the Waterside Workers Hall, an iconic, heritage listed building in Port Adelaide. Site-specific art works, made within and around Waterside by artists and community makers, will reveal and honour the extraordinary memories that inhabit the hall. Waterside, originally built by the Waterside Workers Federation in 1926 and Vitals’ home since 1992, has been central to Port Adelaide’s cultural life for eighty five years.
SILENT COMICS 2011: support for the Graphics Festival at Sydney Opera House to present print based comics by Jim Woodring, Robert Crumb and Nathan Jurevicius reinterpreted in a filmic format for live synchronous audio performances by Seekae, Plaid and Fourplay.
CONNECTIONS RESIDENCY
A partnership with SANYO Oceania and Mosaic AV to develop new projection innovations. Funded by the Australia Council for the Arts.
WELCOME HOME LIGHTNIN' STONE! - Multimedia performance project currently in development in the Blue Mountains NSW, presented by Illuminart. Preview and Showing of work in progress were held on 17 and 18 March 2011.
LIGHTS OF LOBETHAL - Dec 2010
New lighting and audiovisual enhancements of the annual Christmas Lights festival
FOCALIZE - 9 Dec 2010
A multimedia performance in Mt Gambier in collaboration with Rising Damp Youth Theatre, and JUMP mentee Joel Panther. Dec 2010
LANDED
a five night projection art installation mapped to the architecture of Henty House in Launceston Tasmania, as part of the Artistic program of Junction 2010, the National Regional Arts Conference. 25-29 August 2010.
JUNCTION 2010
Cindi Drennan and the illuminart team contributed to the Junction 2010 artistic program and attended the conference. Projects included: LANDED, GUERILLA PROJECTIONS of the Short Tailed Shearwater (Mutton Bird) from mobile projection cart at the Opening Ceremony, Junc Room and Handover Ceremony; HAVE YOU TRIED SWITCHING IT ON AND OFF AGAIN? Session Six on August 28 at Junction 2010.
Co-presenter at conference session on digital media. HANDOVER CEREMONY VJ design and operation by Cindi Drennan with Mentee Joel Panther.
OPEN MIND
A two week video installation at Bondi Junction Bus Interchange, incorporating films made by young people of Urban Arts Base. Two weeks in July 2010.
THE RIBBON
Architectural Projection Art commission for Country Arts SA and the Rural City of Murray Bridge, for the Burke Urban Sound and Light show. June 4-6 2010
NOSFERATU
Projection support for live music performance to accompany Nosferatu, composed by Matthew Timmis for Local Stages, presented at Desert Fringe Port Augusta, February 2010.
GUERILLA TACTICS
Projection art workshop with Dfaces of Youth Arts Whyalla, and multimedia performance intervention at Desert Fringe Port Augusta, February 2010
POSTCARD VIEWS
Projection Sculpture art installation for Adelaide Fringe, commissioned for Artists Bar. February-March 2010.
GROWING OUT YOUR FRINGE
Audiovisual piece to launch the Fringe Vault and celebrate 50 year anniversary
LIGHTS OF LOBETHAL 2009
Festival residency 2009
developing energy efficient lighting art and image innovations for public spaces Lights of Lobethal Festival.
SACRED EARTH SPECTACULAR
Projection art backdrop for live performance during Footbeats sustainability festival Oct 2009
PORT FESTIVAL ARTIST RESIDENCY 2009
Residency project during September and October 2009 leading to festival during 8-14 October 2009. Featured works:
HARTS MILL INHABITED: Site specific audiovisual projection mapped to the western side of Harts Mill Pt Adelaide. Motion graphics tell the story of the Port and the building, incorporating the building architecture into the imagery. 20 minute looping show held on 14-16 October from 8PM - 10:30PM.
PROMISE: Screen Sculpture with sound and image composition inspired by Port Adelaide - depicting the emotions of the widows walk and unfulfilled promises to return. PROMISE "WIDOWS WALK" installed 9-11 October at Lighthouse Hub, Port Adelaide.
PORT AUGUSTA RE-IMAGINES VIDEO STORIES
Editing videos from the creating the archive project of the 2008 Regional Centre of Culture program, to be available from the Port Augsta Re-imagines archive web site. May - August 2009
IRIS
Theatre performance in tribute to artist Iris Frame during Penola/Coonawarra Arts Festival
SA May 14-17 2009. Presented by Rising Damp Theatre.
QUORN LIGHTS UP
Quorn SA, April 24-26 2009 during the Flinders Ranges Bush Festival. Funded by Festivals Australia.
THROUGH OUR EYES AND IN OUR HEARTS
Belalie Gallery, Jamestown Fri Mar 27and Bundaleer Forest Sat Mar 28
during the Bundaleer Forest Festival
GUERILLA TACTICS
Youth Week at dFaces of Youth Arts, Whyalla SA, April 1-4
CAR-COPHONY & The YARTA PURTLI PROJECTIONS
Desert Fringe, Pt Augusta March 20.
view youtube video
JIVE-IN THEATRE
Desert Fringe Pt Augusta March 21.
GENERATION WHY
Environmental projection during the live recording of Gen whY show at Trackdown Studios, NSW. Starring Hayden Tee, musical director Nigel Ubrihien, directed by Darren Yap. Will tour interstate during 2008.
BECKS BAR
Sydney Festival VJ appearances at Becks Bar on 14 & 27 Jan 2009, to accompany live performances by JAVA, and CAMILLE.
PROMISE
Design and construction of an audiovisual / light sculpture, presented at Sydney Festival First Night 10 Jan 2009, and other festivals in 2009.
PORT AUGUSTA RE-IMAGINES:
INAUGURAL REGIONAL CENTRE OF CULTURE PROGRAM SOUTH AUSTRALIA
During 2007 and 2008 Cindi Drennan worked part time for Country Arts SA, assisting with the year long inaugural Regional Centre of Culture program in my home town. Projects managed included the Port Augusta Film Festival, Young Visions Art Program and Exhibition, Heritage Walk and program, and Artists Night & Day.
JIVE IN THEATRE
Produced an experimental audiovisual event featuring the Light Pirates and DJ Macca, during the Port Augusta Film Festival 2008.
YARNBALLA CULTURAL FESTIVAL OPENING CEREMONY
Projection art installation during the inaugural festival opening ceremony Oct 14 2008
DRILL
Film production and AV design and operation for theatre project in Port Augusta SA, 4-7 September 2008
ARTISTRY ALL AROUND US
AV Production for documentary, and a presentation by The Light Pirates, 1 & 2 August 2008
LAUNCH OF SLINGSBY PROGRAM
Immersive Lighting and Audiovisual environment for Arts event, 15 May 2008.
WHAMMO
Presentation of site specific projection at Varcoe's Foundry Art Space in Mt Gambier. 12-14 April 2008.
THE LIGHT PIRATES
Site Specific Projections during Port Augusta Re-Imagines! including Bridge Pylons and the Barracks during Fringe@Crossroads. Project involved working with local young people and artists to create projections telling stories of Port Augusta, and interweaving projection art into events during the program. Funded by Arts SA and Local Stages Initiative.
WISH
Son et Lumiere for the Launch of the
Sculpture in the Vineyards Festival onto the historic St Michaels Church. October 20 2007
CROSSROADS OF CULTURES
Story Animation about the history of Port Augusta
presented October 13 2007
ADELAIDE FESTIVAL FRINGE POSTER LAUNCH
360? Projection Art: October 5 2007
FUTURE FOSSILS
Multimedia Workshop for Roxby Downs Youth Centre
September 26-28 2007
VOICE OF LIGHT
Projected Light Installation for the
Sculpture in the Vineyards Exhibition
by invitation Wollombi Cultural Centre, Hunter Valley, October 7 2006
THE LIVE CYCLE
Live improvised deconstruction of BMX Bandits
by invitation of the Deerubbin Island Film Society
Dangar Island, August 12th 2006
Mobile Audiovisual Projection in Marrickville,
featuring the work of local artists projected onto buildings, alleyways, architecture
to transform public space and delight passers by...
Marrickville Council Community Arts Grants
SPROCKET 2004 :
Experimental hybrid media theatre project, created in collaboration with Leon Ewing
presented at The Studio, Sydney Opera House as a Scratch Night, and umbrella event of the 52nd Sydney Film Festival.
VIDEO COMBUSTION ALPHA RELEASE 2002 :
Live Audiovisual and Theatre performance, presenting
an immersive sculptural performance space surrounding the audience and performers with combined
scripted and improvised video projection exploring themes of body and transformation of self through technology.
Co-producer, Creative director, Designer
TESSERACT RESEARCH LABORATORIES :
Creative director and co-director of a video art performance collaboration (now ceased), which presented work around Australia from 1997 - 2004, working with new forms of video technology to create multimedia experiences.
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