Machine Drawing and The Sex Life of Stone
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What does a historic bark painting from Arnhem Land have to do with manganese, the metal that makes lustrous gold and liquid black ceramic glazes? It’s one of the tangents in American interdisciplinary artist Candice Lin's first solo exhibition in Australia, along with cat-led tours, wolf’s urine and the sea cucumber, the aphrodisiac fished for hundreds of years in the waters of northern Australia.
Best known for his digital video, film and photographic output Daniel Crooks explains how he’s engineered robotic drawing machines to produce some of his latest work, and even 3D-mapped his own body to represent motion - a recurrent theme in his mostly screen-based practice.
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