Anna Madeleine Raupach. Juried Artist
As Above, So Below
QUT Art Museum
23 June – 13 October
Artist Statement
Vivid Frequencies is an augmented reality (AR) artwork that digitally recomposes the audio-visual landscape of the surrounding physical world in response to nearby plant species. It highlights temporal and spatial behaviours of the environment that are usually imperceptible to humans to accentuate how plants affect us – rather than the other way around.
Translating data into a live visual language, Vivid Frequencies dismantles and reforms the image in relation to the species’ geographic origin, while the sonic composition signifies its age, conveying layered temporalities at play in our environment.
Through this audio-visual code, the mobile device acts as a portal through which to tune into divergent, non-human scales of time and space that are interwoven with ours and returns the scientific information of botanic collections into living ecosystems.
Vivid Frequencies forges a connection between digital and plant communication networks to extend the human into relationship with the vegetal world in new ways. It proposes that agency emerges through plant-human co-presence and contributes an expressive apparatus for interdisciplinary research in this field.
About the artists
Anna Madeleine Raupach is a multidisciplinary artist and Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University (ANU) School of Art & Design (SOA&D). Her research engages with science and technology to address socio-political issues enmeshed with climate change. Anna has a PhD in Media Arts from UNSW Art & Design (2014); a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from ANU School of Art & Design (2007); and in 2024 she will undertake a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.
Her recent research has evolved through an ANAT Synapse Residency with ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Mount Stromlo Observatory; a Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Fellowship Program; and an artwork commission for The Tellus Project led by UNSW Art & Design and the National Herbarium NSW.
Anna has had solo exhibitions in New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Bandung and has been awarded international residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, through the Art Gallery of NSW (2018) and Common Room Network Foundation, Indonesia, with Asialink Arts (2017). Her work has been selected for significant national and international exhibitions including the Ramsay Art Prize (2021), Art Gallery of South Australia, FLIGHT, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, and Sun Thinking, with the Solar Protocol Network.
Credits: Dylan Shorten (Developer), Professor Kim Cunio (Musician)