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Pseudo
PSEUDO is a new media art collective and non-profit organisation. As an artist collective we make hybrid digital performances grounded in both vanguard new media art as well as digital embodiment. As an organisation, we are dedicated to supporting artists new media artists, with a particular focus on expanded performance. PSEUDO is based on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in a shared Brunswick studio. We work across Australia and the Asia-Pacific, exploring new possibilities in new media art, live performance, expanded cinema, and DIY music. We foster experimentation and knowledge-sharing through workshops, residencies, and collaborative projects
Our contributions to knowledge since 2023 have included conference presentation at ANAT Synapse, workshops with Arts House, SIGNAL, Lucy Guerin inc and the University of Melbourne, as well as local and international residencies through the P2P residency exchange and PSEUDO residency programs.
Our creative works since 2023 have collectively presented work at CTM Festival, Arts House, the Sydney Opera House, ACMI, The Substation, MONA, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Chunky Move, West Kowloon Cultural District, Digital Art Centre Taipei, Asia Culture Centre Korea, Ambispace One Taipei and Basement Theatre Aoteroa.
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Pseudo has led in a number of shared-knowledge workshops and residency programs. These programs provides a platform for curious artists to push the boundaries of their existing practice and create in digital and live experiences. These programs offer new opportunities for collaboration and engagement across diverse creative fields.
P2P 2024 Australia-Taiwan Residency
Lead by: Pseudo and Naxs Future
Participants:
[Taiwan] Zheng Jun-Peng (Ely)
[Melbourne] d duàn
The inaugural P2P residency happened in 2024, and supported Australian-Chinese new media artist D Duan to undertake a residency at NAXS Studio in Taipei. DD created a prototype of gesture-controlled A/V system, deconstructing the rich iconography of hand-sigils and mudras in Taoist and East Asian Buddhist traditions.
PSEUDO hosted two resident artists from Taiwan, Yifan Li and Zheng Jun-Peng. Yifan Li collaborated with PSEUDO artists Harrison Hall and Mat Spisbah to create “If you cant Larp, You'll cry”, which was presented as part of Sydney Opera House’s Shortwave program. Jun-Peng and DD also co-presented an open studio at PSEUDO to which we invited key stakeholders including presenters from Asia Topa, ACMI and Now or Never to extend the impact of the residency for the artists.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
AUS x USA RESIDENCY
Lead by: Pseudo
Participants:
Team Rolfes
Kevin Peter He
In preparation for their Australian Tour, artists from Team Rofles, and Kevin Peter He undertook a mini residency at Pseudo. This opportunity facilitated the artists the space, time and resources to foster new collaborative relationships and develop new live performance works with local artists, Nina Jirachi and LOIF. The residency concluded with a public showing of the newly developed works and an open discussion with the artists.
Pseudo Local RESIDENCY
Lead by: Pseudo
Participants:
Nū
This residency program brought in one selected mixed media artist practicing locally in Naarm/Melbourne. Fetle aka Nu, developed her new live-coding audio visual set whilst in residency at Pseudo. This enhanced creative networks, and fostered the development and exchange of resources and ideas between our community and Fetle’s.
PSEUDO AESTHETICS - SIGNAL WORKSHOP 2023
Lead by: Henry Lai-Pyne & Sam Mcgilp
Participants:
Piper Day, Tamsin Day, Sharleen Cu, Eleni Telemachou, Thien Nguyen, Ravi / Ismail Firaz, Isabelle Piccolo-Cody, Kevin Kim, Charlotte Fleming, Sarah Cusinato
"Join new media artists Sam Mcgilp and Henry Lai-Pyne for this workshop in virtual production with experimental aesthetics. We will design and play with 3D Avatars and Environments in Unreal Engine, before using Motion Capture to perform and inhabit the characters that we’ve designed. "
The Computer Generated 3D world isn’t bound by the logic or physics of our physical world. We will work together using virtual production to create experimental 3D short films that collapse the real and CG into a strange singularity.
LUCY GUERIN INC. HOTBED Workshop: NoCap MoCap
Lead by: Harrison Hall & Sam Mcgilp
Saturday 13 May 2023
Choreographer Harrison Hall and Media Artist Sam Mcgilp present a workshop that shares some of the choreographic processes used in creating their live performance x digital hybrid experiences.
Over the afternoon they will work with participants in sharing their unique methods and approaches to motion capture and digital embodiment.
Participants will have the opportunity to play with motion capture sensors, viewing real-time feedback of their augmented corporeality, experiencing movement led exercises and experiments that have come out of the last three years of the artists’ practices working with technology.
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
MOTION-CAPTURE AND ANIMATION ART HACK
Lead by: MetaObjects & Mat Spisbah
On 27-28 Feb 2020, MetaObjects conducted a 2-day Art Hack exploring motion-capture and 3D animation at the Interaction Design Lab at the University of Melbourne. The workshop took place at the School of Computing and Information Systems together with students from the Victorian College of the Arts. The first day involved capturing data using the OptiTrack system and then moving into the computer lab to apply the data to 3D avatars using Blender. The second day was spent experimenting and developing students' ideas with the technology.