Nick Fox-Gieg and
Christina McPhee
Microclimate, 2007

TV/DVD, headphones, DVD

Brazil


Microclimate is a sonic and visual translation, or transcoding, of carbon microclimate / carbon absorption and release pattern data on the tall grass prairie in eastern Kansas. 

 

BIO

Nick Fox-Gieg is an animator and video artist based in Toronto. His short films have been shown at the Rotterdam and Ottawa film festivals, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and on Canada's CBC TV. His projections have been featured in the Festival d'Avignon production Boxed In and the Broadway musical Squonk; he's performed his live sound and video works at the Paradiso in Amsterdam and the Redcat Theater in Los Angeles. He was awarded a Fulbright grant to the Netherlands in 2006.

Christina McPhee works in the remote landscape where environmental risk meets human psychogeographies. Her photomontage and film on seismic topologies is selected for the Bucharest Biennial 3, "BEING HERE: MAPPING THE CONTEMPORARY" , curated by Jan-Erik Lundström & Johan Sjöström, and will travel to Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden in October 2008. Her new film, La Conchita Paradise, will premier at the Santa Cruz Film Festival in May 2008. "La Conchita N=amour", a spatial video project, is a new commission for the Threshold Artspace, Horsecross, Perth (Scotland), curated by Iliyana Nedkova (2008). A remote landscape video work, "Latency Structures: Bonneville Salt Flats," premiered at Split Film Festival in 2007. She was a participating editor, Documenta 12 Magazine Project, for -empyre- , Sydney.

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