There seems to be different speeds of time, moving concurrently. Things seem to happen at different periods and yet simultaneously.
Ryk: "Goodness! Is that the time?"
Mike: "Time is an abstract concept, that's a wristwatch"
There is something Important to be said...

So when things are happening to you, for you, by you and with you, that are positive in some way, the speed in which you perceive them to be happening can be quite fast. A blink of an eye. If life has bought with it unfortunate or negative circumstances, 2 months in a funk may feel like 2 years. Yet these coexist in a real duration. We feel them differently. Sometimes the sense of an impending deadline will feel like an increasing portent minute to minute.

I began my current degree in February 2006. Just prior to that I spent a slow sometimes difficult month on a residency. Whilst on that residency I began work on a daily ritual of 'blind drawing' a self portrait. At the end of 2006 I ended up with 365 drawings. Yet when I animated them frame by frame the duration was about 14 seconds. During the past three years many good and bad things have happened, sometimes at the same time. So that in itself confuses your own sense, your own perception of when things have happened, or rather, how long they took to happen.

Through the whole three years I was undertaking research for my degree. Of course it's hard to ascertain when research ends and life begins, it's too intertwined with what I do. But certainly out of the portents of the last month, the main one that's been like an ever brightening beacon has been the conclusion of the PhD. I start setting up the works and hand in the paper on February 10 for about a week and then there is the examination period. Then it's open to the public for 2 and half days.







Suspension of Disbelief - the representation of poetic faith through time-based media
A PhD submission by Matt Warren

"In this idea originated the plan of the 'Lyrical Ballads'; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biographia Literaria. Vol 2. Chapter XIV. 1847.

The outcome of this research project is a submission made up of a body of work and supporting exegesis in which I have investigated how one may best represent the concept of "poetic faith" using time-based media. Open to the public from: 5:30pm - Friday Feb 20, 2009 Open - 12:00-5:00pm Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 February, 2009 Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts. Hunter Street, Hobart. Tasmania.

Works:










'Cantus 35' - surround sound installation (re-interpretation of work from 'Port Arthur Project' 2007)















'In Haunted Attics' - surround and video installation (2007/2008)













'Portal Lux Aeterna (after Ligeti)' - surround and video installation (2007/2008)








'Run Out Groove (communiqu