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Website: http://georgieroxbysmith.ning.com

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College / University: Victorian College of the Arts

Program / Degree: Master of Visual Arts

Graduation: November 11, 2009

Member type: Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Conceptual, Event, Film, Installation, Performance, Sculpture, Video

I am...: I am interested in challenging the relationship between analogue and digital systems, questioning the notions of materiality and exploring new possibilities of virtual reality media. My practice is engaged with the themes of digital and global systems and the glitches created when these systems meet with the analogue or the everyday.
Drawing on work from my Masters degree, extracted film of my self portrait avatar “Diogenes Wylder” from the virtual reality software Second Life is reinjected into the physical. Questioning materiality and the digital analogue relationship, the work exists on several planes – “in world” where the glitches and performances take place, within a body of physical sculptures and as projections within a real world space which can then recreated by a live performer in real time.

About my artwork: Primarily a sculptor and installation artist, Georgie Roxby Smith’s ongoing exploration of global social and economic systems probes the imagined morph between the concepts of “grid –matrix”. Through envisioning the systems we live under as multidimensional matrices and rebuilding them as analogue machine, mutated, bulging and seemingly infinitely reproducing, the work explores the system in collapse, organically morphed by the people who live within it. Through these works in installation as architectural and social intervention, her practice and conceptual aims have extended to an exploration of what it means to live locally under the systems or space flows in today’s global cities. In cities where the loss of public space, local economies and local practices are being overrun, the seemingly small acts of intervention by artists such as Belgium born Francis Alys, one of Roxby Smith’s main influences, show that these global flows can be interjected with local acts exposing the seemingly impenetrable systems as flawed. It is with this in mind that Roxby Smith began a series of architectural and social interventions and installations in the city of Melbourne aimed to disturb the urban flow of these invisible global systems. These interventions are then re – presented within her sculptural and installation works – literally making these flawed human moments visually part of the “machine” – albeit glitches within it. These inclusions also serve to monumentalise the local amidst the global machine and reinject the personal and poetic into these seemingly anonymous flows. More recently she has begun to incorporate the virtual cities of Second Life into her work – creating interventions and exploring glitches within this digital world using her self portrait avatar. Often incorporating sound, lighting and sensual elements such as fan forced air and animated industrial materials, her installations overrun specific sites and spaces, forcing the viewer to physically explore and navigate these new systems. Computer circuit boards, industrial ducting, electrical piping, foam packaging and other materials line the walls and drip from the ceilings to create all immersive environments, primarily lit by her projections and small LED lights highlighting hidden nooks and corners. Many of these systems are aurally active – droning, beeping and breathing through her use of installation specific soundscapes. Amongst other projects, Georgie has taken part in the Melbourne International Arts Festival for the past three years including ‘Navigators’ 2006 (for which she received the Eldon and Anne Foote Trust Travel Grant), ‘John Cage’s Musicircus’ 2007 and, in 2008, is contributing to ‘Longing Belonging Land’ on opening night and assisting NY artist Chris Doyle with his ‘Ecstatic City’ installation.

Artists I like: Nam June Paik, Vito Acconci, Mikals Dwyer, Stuart Ringholt, Bruce Nauman

Interests: Visual art, virtual worlds, new media art, installation, performance

What exhibitions are good at the moment?: Gertrude Centre for Contemporary Art

Centre of the artworld:: New York

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On Second Nature :An Exploration of Contemporary Art in the Virtual World of Second Life

On Second Nature : An Exploration of Contemporary Art in the Virtual World of Second Life

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“For the first time humanity has not only one but many worlds in which to live”

Since the rise of virtual reality in the 1990’s and the early pioneering work of artists such as Myron Krueger, contemporary artists have been exploring and pushing the boundaries of cyberspace and the virtual worlds that exist within it. Beginning… Continue

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I work as a free artist with the experience of more than 25 years, to develop art and design solutions for real estate, landscape, interieurs. I have many-sided interests. Art, philosophy, literature, religion, music, language, policy, life, nature. I am in search of contacts they positively change my life.