Presentation to the Emerging and Experimental Arts Board Australia Council for the Arts Seminar.

1. Experimentation and Research
Based Arts Practice
Dr Catherine Fargher
Dr Egg Digital Project
City of Sydney Cultural Precinct
Suite 1/level 2, 66 Oxford St
Darlinghurst
www.dreggdigital.com

2. Hybrid Arts
New Media/Hybrid Arts:
• Cross-fertilisation of new technologies with
traditional creative art forms….
• Creative partnerships with non-arts sector players
including industry, science and technology.
(Embodying the Information Age, 1998 Linda Wallace p 1)

3. D
‘Feasible fictions and possible
products’
Chromosome Knitting concept from the Motherload project. Illustration: ASCII text
knitted body, created by Sarah Waterson Research and Development process exploring
new genetic futures with Maude Davey and Heather Grace Jones and Dr Toni Roscioli.

4. Experimental Research and
Development, HDR University
of Wollongong

5. University of Wollongong:
Three generations of creative
works:
• First generation: original seeds: Bio-ethical fables
• Second generation: cross-fertilisation/hybrids:
• Radio play , The Woman Who Knitted Herself a Child.
• Puppetry and New Media, Dr Egg and The Man With
No Ear.
• Underpinning theoretical issues Hybrid/New Media
Arts and concepts of evolution, mutation,
hybridisation, metamorphosis and transformation
within the natural and technological realm as they
inform current arts practices.

6. Dr Egg and the Man with No
Ear

7. Inter-species character
Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear – ‘the tank child’

9. University of Wollongong:
Three generations of
creative works:
• Third generation: extreme mutation:
BioHome, the Chromosome Knitting Project.
Performance/installation
Biohomeproject.net
Incorporating Wet
biology, cell culturing
practices, performance,
audio and digital media
in a Hybrid Arts project
exploring biotech ethics.

10. Salmon testes DNA knitting

11. 4th Generation: The Dr Egg
Adventures – trans-media storyworld

12. Trans-media possibilities
Product currently in development:
• Interactive storybook and laboratory.
Further possibilities:
• Animated TV series with Augmented
Reality (AR) tags,
• Stand alone games,
• Mobile cross-platform Apps,
• Published books and graphic novels,
• Toys and models.

13. The Dr Egg Adventures
Design: Chris More

14. Interactive Laboratory and Games
Design Chris More and Jonathon Oxlade