Margaret Seymour

Research

Margaret Seymour’s research is primarily concerned with technologies of vision
and the perceptual and conceptual shifts associated with vision apparatuses. Working across a number of disciplines including sculptural installation, photography, video and sound, Margaret often combines new digital media with older lens and screen-based techniques now considered ‘defunct’. For example, The Mirrored Room is a live 3D stereoscopic projection that mirrors the gallery space and its inhabitants. Invited to don a pair of anaglyph glasses (the type used in 3D movies), the viewer interacts with a live image of themselves that floats in a fluid realm – at times existing in front of the screen, at other times sunk back behind the screen. Like looking through binoculars, each object or person in the projected image exists on a separate image plane and appears strangely isolated from the surroundings. Combining aspects of stereoscopic cinema and CCTV systems the work explores ideas of surveillance and control in a world that today seems both familiar and irrevocably changed.

Exhibitions

Dis/Appear, Banff Art Centre, Alberta, Canada, 2005

The Mirrored Room, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, 2004

The Observation Room, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, University of Sydney, 2003

32nd Alice Art Prize, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, 2002

Vertical Hold, ABC Centre, Sydney, 1995

Visible Stutter, CBD Gallery Sydney, 1993

Alterations to the Plan, Selenium Gallery, Redfern, 1991

Perspecta Fringe, Works Gallery, Paddington, 1991


Awards & Grants

2008 ANAT Professional Development Travel Fund
2008 Australia Council for the Arts: New Media Arts Board International Residency, Banff, Canada
2008 Short-listed for the 32nd Alice Art Prize, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs

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