Photography by
Nick Ritar

Moving through and drawing from studies concerned with organic motion... the swarming tendencies of various species (including humans)... viral + emergent behaviours... crowd theory... resonant intelligence within a swarm of many parts...

The work is experienced as an installation with four-channel projection and surround sound.
A study of organic motion, swarming behaviours and sound, Mob creates an abstracted environment populated with individual organisms of motion and sound. Within this environment the audience experiences the unfolding of a textural world, which builds up to the point where individuality is neutered and an abstracted crowd organism is formed.

 

Video: Kirsten Bradley + Nick Ritar
Audio: Ben Frost

"A question for Cicada was the point of distinction between the individual and the collective, and the point of disintegration within the group itself. Cicada continues to inhabit the uncomfortable organic space between sound and image as they work towards the formation of, as Ritar explains, “a true synthetic experience.” This is achieved with refreshing subtlety and intelligence."

Review - Realtime (Rhana Devenport)

Exhibitions

• 15 -18 Feb 2006 - Meat Market (preview)

This project is supported by the New Media Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.