In the run up to Freeplay, we’ll be doing Fast Five interviews with some of our speakers and our program advisory committee. Here’s Thea Baumann who was part of our committee.
What are you working on right now?
I am really excited about being currently involved in producing EXILE – a co-production between Aphids and Chamber Made Opera. EXILE is the world’s first interactive music video for Ipad integrating an operatic score by Australian composer Helen Gifford. EXILE the Ipad app is being made in collaboration with an amazing talented digital arts studio called Champagne Valentine based in Amsterdam.
What are you playing right now – digital or otherwise?
I love playing with the Brian Eno/ Peter Chilvers’ generative composition iphone apps such as Bloom and Trope, and playing these apps to create ambient relaxation sound scapes in my living room .
What do you wished you’d worked on ? Why ?
Rez for PlayStation 2 for the mind altering potential of creating a game to ellicit a synesthetic mind state. I also admire how the game takes its inspiration from modern art/ contempory artists in its look and feel, and also how it integrates contemporary electronic music.
Also Rez is probably the next closest experience that harks to one of my most revered moments in cinema – the 2001 Space Odyssey space sequence.
Also, I wished I could have been involved in modding the Rez vibrator tool !
What is your favourite ever creative moment ?
This is such a difficult question – as I have had many inspiring creative moments- and I don’t think I can pinpoint a singular moment. I can however trace back one of the most singularly defining creative moments in my life – as a child, I painted a highly detailed cartographic map of an underwater metropolis which I personally handed to Jacques Cousteau.
What are you glad you never worked on ?
The Three Gorges Dam in China.
Thea is a producer, curator and artist. She currently works as Executive Producer for Aphids, an artist-led organisation with a focus on creating collaborations across artforms and borders.
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