Tara Pattenden.
Griffith University Art Museum
Grey Street Gallery
Artist Statement
As Phantom Chips, Tara Pattenden will be performing with electronic costume-based instruments that shriek and wail as they are squished and stretched. Pattenden invites participation and you may be invited to wear an instrument and experience the synaesthetic joy of touching sound. By combining wearable technologies and participatory practice, this work explores audience agency and engagement through play and craft based (soft) technologies.
About the artists
Tara Pattenden is an artist and creative technologist working with tactile electronic instruments, programming, time based media and performance. She is the founder of Cyber Palace, a studio for creative technology workshops and Cyber Bunker, a project space for experimental practice in Meanjin. Tara is a PhD candidate at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, her project combines wearables with participatory practices to discover how costume-based, audience-worn instruments – with visually impactful and intuitive electronic interfaces – can enhance engagement and expression for coauthored audience engagement during participatory sound works. She has delivered workshops internationally including: Norberg Festival (SE); Onassis Stegi Cultural Centre (GR); and Victoria & Albert Museum (UK). Performance highlights include: Milhoes de Festa (PT); Cafe Oto (UK); Pohoda Festival(SK); Tectonics (UK); CTM (DE); and Le Guess Who Festival(NL).
Credits: Tara Pattenden