Richie Cyngler
Resolutions exhibition
Resolutions was an exhibition of new interactive display / video game works, exhibited alongside work by Timothy Hodge at Good Grief, Nipaluna in 2024.
Displays were made by connecting LED panels in series. You may notice glitches depicted in the displays, this is a result of conflicts in refresh rates between my displays and cameras used to capture them. The refresh glitches are not present in real life.
Each interactive piece invited participation through experimentation with game controllers.
future lutruwita
future lutruwita is a graphic anthology, bringing together nineteen Tasmanian artists, all speculating on a future. The book was published in 2023. For more information or to purchase the book click here.
Georgia Morgan, 2021
We hung two exhibitions, a works in progress exhibition at Rosny School House in 2022 and a launch exhibition at Haus of Vovo in 2023.
This project was supported by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council for the Arts.
Noosphere aka Consciousness is a Technology in its Infancy
telepathy & shared consciousness; noospheric exploration
This iteration of the EEG piece examines the premise that consciousness is a technology which can be shared and explored. The system feedsback brainwave frequencies to participant/ performers via strobe lights, audio, and vibration. I think of this performance as an infinite mirror, reflecting back on itself, feeding the participants their own brain signals in real time, delayed only by processing. Reflection may lead to awareness. Awareness may lead to transformation.
EEG piece 1.6
Music for Various Groups of Performers (After Lucier). The basic structure of the piece is a group improvised performance, which has been presented at festivals and conferences around the world at the intersection of music, art, and technology. Each performance meets and engages with local participants or other festival contributors, everyone has brainwaves. The work explores the dynamics of interpersonal interaction and corollaries between brain signals and behaviour through improvised live performance, and sonification & visualisation of live EEG data.
Nipaluna Ambient Monitoring Station II
Nipaluna Ambient Monitoring Station II (NAMS2), was an interactive public sound art exhibition at three sites around Nipaluna-Hobart CBD. There were four participating artists; Richie Cyngler, Julia Drouhin, Elise Romaszko, and Dylan Sheridan
Dylan Sheridan, 2024
This project was supported by Creative Hobart
artists L-R: Dylan Sheridan, Elise Romaszko, Julia Drouhin, Richie Cyngler
listen to some of the sounds from NAMS I on my bandcamp
Airplay
Airplay is a series of spatialised acoustic sound sculptures, designed as temporary public art. The piece works with the wind, playing string instrument objects which are installed around the site. You feel the wind, you hear its force move. Airplay was exhibited at the Domain, and then at Birches Bay Art Farm.
In 2020 Airplay won an acquisition prize at Birches Bay Art Farm. This work was supported by Creative Hobart.
Urban Oracle
Untether the umbilical - Visit the Urban Oracle, for just a moment. Or as long as you like. Be present, no remote access here. Urban Oracle is not your papa's information nodule. Zhe is discrete. The Loardz and Laddeez don't want you to leave [login/cancel]. But why not sojourn... a quiet moment to reflect. Orchard Loardz, Numerous Numeral Laddeez, Counts of Countenances, and all those other Juking Dukes will take you back - (don't) despair they kneeaad you after all.
Take your time... Formulate your questions... and ask. All questions must take the form of a URL, for Universal Resources must be Located. Peh is Urbane and particular. Use your wurdz, string them together, no spaces of course (gaps leave room for daemons, don't break the circle). End it with a magic word. Seeking your fortune? .biz | Community concerns? .org | Casting wide? .net | media mogul? .tv | Everything is permitted? .com...
Now is time to DIVINE
((((oracle-listening)))
# Urban Oracle is a wifi hotspot, a sacred shrine of divination.
# A contemplation application. hacked together via network pranks, config tweaks and sudo shenanigans.
Richie Cyngler is a multidisciplinary artist based in nipaluna, lutruwita (Hobart, Tasmania). He likes to explore subjectivity and consciousness in his work. His current work employs sound, sculpture, interactivity, print, and performance. Richie enjoys collaboration with other artists and makers. He is skilled in a number of creative software frameworks and hardware platforms, and is a proponent and user of open source technologies and ethics. Richie has performed and exhibited locally and internationally. He is grateful for the support of a number of funding bodies, festivals, conferences and exhibitions both nationally and abroad. Richie completed his MFA by research at VCA in 2021.