Angela Main is an artist and curator who works with natural and mediated spaces. Her work questions where we look to understand ourselves: What is natural and how do we know? Angela’s work sits between the art, technology and business worlds, and is an exploration of interactivity and identity, cognition, animism and technocultural ecology. Her multidisciplinary approach includes performance, installation, experimental video, sound, digital image and events. She develops technologically mediated ecological systems through the play of sensory systems and immersive spaces, resulting in a fusion of the cognitive and performative.

Angela has an extensive history of creating theatrical and multimedia events and installations, for exhibition, and both small and large-scale community and corporate events. Angela is currently living in Auckland, New Zealand and working as an artist/curator and Feldenkrais practitioner.

The work Animalia, 2005 is a result of a five-year project to develop a means to augment social interaction and cognitive awareness utilising networked and tracking technologies. Utilising a game structure, participants perform identities within large-scale sonic and projected environments, resulting in a play of ephemeral and real time bodily reflection. A further development Animaliaremix, 2006 was recently presented at an exhibition STILLMOVING: from Photography to Interactive Art in Auckland, New Zealand.

URLs

www.animaliaremix.com
www.stillmoving.org.nz