Hidden Persuaders series, 2014
machine drawing, pigment marker on 220gsm Dessin
594 x 420 mm each, edition of 10 + AP
Sex Pheromone: Female Hamster
48,725 objects, path length: 87,437.73 mm
Sex Pheromone: Staphylococcus aureus Mu50 (“Golden Staph”)
47,824 objects, path length: 116,061.93 mm
Insulinotropic Incretin Hormone (2L70)
40,524 objects, path length: 75,742.79 mm
Progesterone
48,172 objects, path length: 65,381.19 mm
Testosterone
48,218 objects, path length: 63,114.92 mm
Estrogen E3 (Estriol)
48,595 objects, path length: 62,118.79 mm
PHOTOGRAPHY
Brenton McGeachie
EXHIBITIONS
Vice-Chancellor’s College Visiting Artist Fellows Scheme (VCCAFS), 2013
Vice Chancellor’s College Visiting Artist Fellows Scheme
Australian National University, Canberra
Working in collaboration with Dr Russell A Barrow, Organic Chemistry of Natural Systems, Research School of Chemistry, and Dr Tim Brook in the School of Computer Science, Kochel’s project researches smell as an aesthetic marker. The
research investigates what potential exists for
the extraction of smells, and the re-experiencing
from the original context, but also the gathering
of scent data through gas chromatographic and
mass spectrographic analysis. The latter forms
of data might be realised through programmed
translations into 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional
forms. Through the use of computer aided design
technology (CAD), objects might be produced
through rapid prototype technologies, and drawings
will be produced through a plotter printer. Considerations of coding and coded
behaviour—at the molecular, biological and affective scales of perception—
influence strategies of representation and translation.
Anthea Callen
Professor of Art (Practice-led Research)
ANU CASS School of Art
March 2014