Nigel Helyer :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online

Nigel Helyer b. 1951

Also known as Dr Sonique

Artist (Sculptor),
Artist (New Media Artist),
Curator

Nigel Helyer is an independent sculptor and sound-artist. He is the director of a small multi-disciplinary team “Sonic Objects; Sonic Architecture” with an international reputation for large scale sound-sculpture installations, museum interactives and new media projects.

Tags: Synapse, Sculpture, Sound artist, BEAP, Installation

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creator of

The Naughty Apartment

Medium: Installation
URL: http://scanlines.net/node/3397
: http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1433

An interactive sound-sculpture inspired by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita” ...

creator of

CrayVox

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Tags: Interactive

CrayVox is a new project under development for the IASKA Space(D) Biennale which will debut at the Fremantle Arts Centre in February of 2012.

creator of

Radiolarians

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RadioLarians new public artwork for the Lake MacQuarie City Gallery.
Radiolarians consists of two interlocked sculptures, laser cut in 6mm Corten steel. The forms, one cylindrical and the other toroidal have a strong morphological relationship to microscopic marine creatures, sharing symmetry with the structure of primitive Radiolaria, countless millions of which form the geological strata of this, the oldest continent.

creator of

The Naughty Apartment

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Medium: installation, audio, architectural models
Tags: Mikhail Bulgakov, Sound, Novel, Interactive

Consists of several miniature models of the apartment of Mikhail Bulgakov, drawn from his novel The Master and Margarita. Each model contains a scene from the novel, and viewers examine them with an augmented magnifying glass that relays to them an audio soundtrack of the particular scene they are observing.

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