Ian Gibbins, Catherine Truman, Angela Chappell
- Medium type
- AV work
- Year
- 2021
- Runtime
- 00:04:49
- Video and audio
- Catherine Truman
- Ophthalmic imaging
- Angela Chappell
- Video and audio editing
- Ian Gibbins
- exhibited as part of Catherine Truman – Shared Reckonings (Santos Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide Botanic Garden for the 2021 Adelaide Festival, 24 February – 2 May 2021)
- official selection, Nahui Ollin Film Festival 2021 (Durango, Mexico, August – September, 2021)
Beyond the physics and biochemistry, we have our networks.
We are enmeshed by interconnections. These are our rootstocks and tendrils; our capillaries and veins;
our nerve fibres and synapses… And now there is light in our eyes and we wonder what it means, we try to determine its source…
Created from an ophthalmic imaging device with ambient sounds from the machine and its surroundings, this is an exploration of ways of seeing and dealing with light, as implemented by visual creatures such as ourselves, and photosynthetic plants, such as bok choy.
Biographies
Ian Gibbins is a widely published poet, video artist and electronic musician. He has four books of poetry while his video art has been shown to acclaim in festivals, galleries and installations around the world. Until he retired in 2014, Ian was an internationally recognised neuroscientist, microscopist and Professor Anatomy at Flinders University.
Catherine Truman is an established artist working in diverse media including object installation, digital imagery and film. Recently, she has had residencies in Anatomy, Microscopy, and Ophthalmology at Flinders University (2010-2020) and the Adelaide Botanic Gardens (2020-2021).
Catherine and Ian have been working together on collaborative projects uniting art and science since 2006. Beginning with cross-media explorations of the human body and its representations (With Body in Mind, 2007; Not Absolute, 2009; Translating the Body – the choreography of representation in anatomy teaching, 2010; The Filtered Body – the uncertainties of embodiment, 2011), they then re-imagined the human aspects of microscope technology in The Microscope Project (2014). Since then they have collaborated on video works including 20/20 Scope (in Catherine Truman: No Surface Holds, Jam Factory, 2017) and Shared Reckonings (Adelaide Festival, 2021).