Computational Geophysics (2013)
My current research, as a Poster. It’s provisional, but here’s the idea: Things are, of course, evolving and changing over time. A moving target. Honing in.
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Phillip Law Interview (2004/2013)
Philip Law Interview – The Antarctic Landscape – 2004 from Peter Morse on Vimeo. This is part of an interview – the rest is to be restored to stereoscopic 3D. I had the great privilege of talking to Philip Law – one of the pioneers of Antarctic Science – in...
Conversations about Paintings
My father is a painter – a landscape painter – and he has done this for most of his life (and all my life) – and, naturally, he’s had a strong impact upon the way I think about things visually. We’ve had many interesting discussions over many decades. Anyway, over...
Sense of Place:: Cape Denison, Antarctica (2011)
Sense of Place:: Cape Denison, Antarctica from Peter Morse on Vimeo. Centrepiece: Cape Denison Triptych The centrepiece of a triptych video installation I made with Chris Henderson in 2011. WARNING: it is 33 minutes long and very slow – for a reason : it’s about looking and place and time...
The Super 8 Epics (1977/2013)
In the late 1970’s, when I was still a kid, I really got into making Super 8 movies – and learning all about stop-motion animation and special-effects (well, in-camera ones!) My Dad borrowed various cameras for me from Mount Lawley Teachers College (now Edith Cowan University), where he was Head...
Dawn Walk, Hinsby Beach
It was a kind of sulphurous dawn, with bush fires on the peninsular. Remarkable.
SYN[A]: CLAVIER À LUMIÈRES (2012)
CLAVIER À LUMIÈRES was a project undertaken with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in 2012. A performance event was held at MONA on 3-4 November 2010 – details and documentation below. Clavier à lumières – keyboard with lights, invented by Russian synaesthetic composer Alexander Scriabin. Syn[a] is a group of artist-technologists...
Shipping Container Architecture inspired by Antarctic Bases
One of my great passions, having been involved in building a base in Antarctica – at Cape Dension, Commonwealth Bay – is sustainable environmentally-friendly architecture. The great lesson I learnt in this process is that it could be relatively inexpensive to construct interesting, aesthetic modular buildings using industrial and recycled...
DARK – The Fulldome Movie
Dark has a dedicated Information Page here: https://www.petermorse.com.au/2019/06/dark-the-fulldome-movie/
Dark Matter Aesthetics
Support materials for an Australia Council application ‘Dark Matter Aesthetics.’ Regrettably, it didn’t ‘get up’ – but it’s beautiful anyway. Music Lux Aeterna by Gyorgy Ligeti.