Contact me regarding your needs, desires or wishes in respect to new media installations requiring interaction and/or kinetic elements. I work in the capacity that fits best with you: collaboration, consultation or supply only of complete units, modules or components. I have worked for PhD and Masters Candidates and with exhibiting artists in varying capacities.

Qualifications
Bachelor of Visual Art (Hons) (Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney)
Diploma of Visual Art (Meadowbank TAFE)
Associate Diploma in Engineering (Electrical) (North Sydney TAFE)
Electrical Trades Certificate (North Sydney TAFE)
TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training & Assessment (HKCC, Hornsby)

Specialty
ARDUINO, RASPBERRY PI and other electric/electronic builds as well as sound/music and photographic/camera composer.
An allround manipulator of readymades

I make it happen

Selected electronic builds for various artists

Create musical sounds from NASA derrived solar flare data.  Using python on Linux the numbers in .csv cells became frequencies to be played by software created synthesizer.  The artist took the raw file and used Ableton to end up with the feel they were after.  It became part of a sound and video installation, with the video being images of the solar flares that the data was linked to.  The images and flare information were taken from NASA archives at the moment the artist was born.

Reconstruction of Raspberry Pi for multi unit installation.  Several years prior, units had been configured by someone else but they are no longer available.  I stepping in, decoded previous work and reconfigured for currently available hardware.  Raspberry Pi, 3.5inch touch screen, Adafruit FreqShow and RTL-SDR frequency scanner.  

Unit suspended by cable and rotates.  During rotation the sensor detects other parts of the sculpture and enits a variable synthesized sound.  Raspberry Pi with ultrasonic sensor sound generator.

Audience partipation.  Audience member picks up ceramic sculpture and walks towards main sculpture of installation to generate sounds based on direction and proximity.  Arduino with ultrasonic sensor, electronic compass and custom audio output module.

Arduino with ultrasonic sensor to emulate a geigger counter for art installation.
Raspberry Pi video camera, ultrasonic sensor and 7-inch display mounted behind two-way mirror – think Rene Magritte
MP3 player that auto-runs on a loop with selectable delay between repeats
MP3 player activated when an ashes urn is held with speaker inside the urn
MP3 player activated by proximity sensor with speaker mounted inside a rice cooker.
MP3 player activated when a trumpet is stroked, speaker hidden inside the trumpet case.
MP3 player activated when ceramic sculptures are touched, speakers mounted inside the sculptures.
“Robotic” plaster boots that drive forward and backwards simulating the myth of Sisyphus (A Man Rolled A Stone Up A Hill) Click here for further information 
Contact me for details regarding artists and exhibitions

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Performed for
Tino Seghal in This Is So Contemporary, p/o Making Art Public at Art Gallery of NSW, 2019
Super Critical Mass in 24 Hour Choir, Art and About Rotunda on Observatory Hill 2017
Super Critical Mass in Actions and Games, Art and About Martin Place Sydney 2015
Super Critical Mass in Actions and Games, Art and About State Library Sydney 2015
Marina Abramovic in Artist in Residence, Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay, 2015
Super Critical Mass in Sonic Social, MCA Circular Quay, 2014
Mel O’Callagahan in Parade, BOS19 Cockatoo Is, 2014
Tino Seghal in This Is So Contemporary, Art Gallery of NSW, 2014

My experience also extends to project management of commercial electrical & data projects and computer room builds for large corporate and government

My Diploma major was in printmaking then my Bachelor major was in sculpture and I have over 5 years experience as a picture framer

Paul Cooper, trading as Silent Seven, ABN 50 458 316 949