Program–

Black Noise

Marcia Jane

16 Nov 2012 - 8 Dec 2012 · West Space · Gallery 3
Opening: Thursday 6-8pm 15 November 2012
Artist Talk: Thursday 5.30-6.30pm 6 December 2012

Video projectors play back images of the full moon as recorded through a video camera, from a moving minibus on a country road in New South Wales, Australia on July 16 2011. The projectors are accompanied by vignettes and speakers: a set of autonomous emitters producing sound, light, interference or reflection. Black Noise takes lead from the work of philosopher Graham Harman. I experience a world of strange objects: a noise of qualities and relations shimmering along their surface, while reality stays hidden in their depths, secret and untouchable.

Marcia Jane is an artist who works with audiovisual spectra. Her primary preoccupations are space and frequency; she is interested in experiences which lap at the edge of hearing and the edge of vision. Marcia graduated with Honours in Fine Art/ Media Arts from RMIT in 2008, with specializations in video installation and audiovisual performance. Her cross-sensory works have appeared in sound exhibitions Parisonic (France), Sonic Body (Melbourne) and Magnetic Traces (Melbourne). Marcia has performed live video at Atelier MTK (France), The NOW Now Festival (Blue Mountains) and Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane). Her single-channel video works have screened at Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne International Film Festival and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.