"Wind generated aeolian tones from a circular aerial communications mast and multiple wires. Mast and wires appear as a shifting, illusory graphic outline against a background of ice & intermittent snow-drift. Audio consists of a wide frequency band of tones activated by a 50k wind."
Art from Antarctica, Brazil, Germany (2009)
Sur Polar, Buenos Aires (2006)
Tapping the Pulse, Philip Dadson works 1971-2004, New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington (2005).
Various showings throughout NZ as part of Polar Projects.
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Installation view of Aerial Farm (2003-2004) Phil Dadson, in 21st-Century Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the VUW Art Collection, at the Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi. Photo by Robert Cross
An ironic take on the magnetic attraction of the 'ice' for adventurers, explorers, artists and scientists.
Triadic synergy: a world upside down in motion. A canoe prow navigates Antarctic Dry Valley landscapes
My Dinner with Henry, or; Notes on Distributing Artist Film and Video
When is a video an artwork? How does representation on CIRCUIT support the collection of moving image works? A paper originally presented by Mark Williams at the 21st-Century Custodianship: Collecting Media Art panel discussion at the Adam Art Gallery.
