Double Vision, digital art screen in Double Bay

Double vision

'Double Vision' is a digital public art project run by Woollahra Council. The digital screen, installed under the escalators to the Woollahra Library (Kiaora Place) in Double Bay features a range of varied video or other screen based artworks from different artists. Works displayed on the screen aims to engage and provide a point of difference to the public in this space.

ABSTRACTION

Beauty is an abstraction. Something that exists only as an idea. Abstraction is a concept used by each artist in this cycle to create mesmerising, meditative, gentle works like slow changing paintings.

Double Vision is currently screening works by Si Yi Shen, Justin Harvey, and Spencer Harrison. These works will be on display until end of December 2024.

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Image credit - Infinity : Si Yi Shen

Artist: Si Yi Shen
Title: Infinity
Duration: 08.00 secs

Si Yi Shen is an emerging artist working across digital collage and 2D animation, projections, installations and emerging technologies, including augmented reality (AR). Her current practice explores an immigrant's diaspora experience and placemaking in a digitally-enabled world. Si Yi Shen was a finalist of the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize (2023), Fisher's Ghost Art Prize (2021 and 2019) and Rookwood Hidden Sculpture Walk (2018). Recent commissions include Kinds of Softness (2024) - Bankstown Arts Centre, Imagining Terrains - Broken Hill City Gallery (2023) Sending You Love - Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (2021).

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Image credit - Edge of the Universe : Justin Harvey

Artist: Justin Harvey
Title: Edge of the Universe (2024)
Duration: 05:19 secs

Justin Harvey works across moving image, installation and virtual reality experience. He nurtures an ongoing fascination with the creative potentials of human machine interaction, embracing experimental methods that seek to exploit digital imaging technologies, and the evolving ‘artificial intelligence’ systems that increasingly drive them, in unintended and playful ways. A finalist in the 2023 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Harvey has exhibited in solo and curated exhibitions both locally and internationally.

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Image credit - But Don’t You Wish You Could (Hit) Escape : Spencer Harrison

Artist: Spencer Harrison
Title: But Don’t You Wish You Could (Hit) Escape (1-12)
Duration: 14:00 secs

Spencer Harrison is an Australian visual artist, whose practice explores a dialogue between formal abstraction and the modern world. His visual language draws on the world around us, referencing design, architecture, technology and the built environment. Central to Harrison’s practice is the exploration of colour, including its phenomenology, emotive qualities, symbolism and socio-political meaning. Harrison works across a range of disciplines, including painting, drawing, digital video, sculpture and installation. Harrison has a Masters in Contemporary Art from Victorian Collage of the Arts and his work is in private collections in Australia, UK and the USA including the Justin Art House Museum.

For more information on the public art project, or you would like to be involved, please email cultural@woollahra.nsw.gov.au or call 9391 7102.

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