LUST
FOR LIFE
14 – 23 FEBRUARY
83 High Street, Prahran VIC 3181
Biography
Alison Bennett
Artist Alison Bennett has rendered Australian native flowers as celestial encounters in the form of 3D point-clouds that coalesce and dissolve. Using a gesture-controlled interface, they have installed this innovative interactive screenwork as a room-scale data-projection.The work was created using photogrammetry, a technique for generating 3D models from a large set of photographs taken from all angles of the plant.
Bennett has brought together an innovative combination of processes to create awe-inspiring real-time embodied interaction with the 3D point-clouds of Australian flowers. The use of a gesture-controlled sensor creates the impression that the work literally turns towards the viewer. This mirrors Bennett’s perception that, just as they attuned to plants, the plants were also turning toward us. The interaction design encourages the viewer to slow down and attune to the pulse of plants and computers, inducing an almost meditative state of mind.
Their work has been shown at international venues such as Musée du Louvre, Kunstmuseum Bonn, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and featured on Australian Story, The New York Times, Mashable, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Motherboard, Creators Project, ABC TV News, Artlink and The Guardian.
vegetal/digital (2022), an interactive screenwork, has been shown internationally at Soma Artspace (Berlin), The Photographers Gallery (London), Cube Garges (Paris), MUTEK (Mexico), 36 degrés and Galerie Charlot (Paris); and is touring nationally as part of the Umbrella Arts exhibition POSTWORLD. It has been exhibited at Verge Gallery (Sydney), Wyndham Art Gallery (Melbourne) and MARS (Melbourne). A still from vegetal/digital was a finalist in the 2023 Bowness Photography Prize at the Museum of Australian Photography. An extended discussion of the work was published in the Philosophy of Photography journal special issue: ‘Expanded Visualities: Photography and Emerging Technologies’.
Connect
alisonbennett.net
Works
vegetal/digital (eucalyptus), 2022, still from photogrammetry point-cloud interactive moving image. @bennettalison
Fish #1, 2025, photograph @bennettalison
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