Some Thing - kinetic sculpture

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RESEARCH BACKGROUND: Haig's Some Thing is a fusion of David Cronenberg's New Flesh and the transmuted bodies that populate William S. Burroughs' The Naked Lunch. The work references the teratological body, the body turned inside out, its internal viscera exposed and displaced, like an experiment that has gone horribly wrong. Some Thing was funded by the Inter Arts office of the Australia Council and was selected to receive production funding. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: Some thing establishes a new and inventive way of engaging with an aesthetic that attempts to fuse abject bodily material with technology in new and inventive ways. Through the work, Haig seeks to augment and extend the ways in which we consider the human body and its relationship to the media ladscape and new and emerging technologies. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: Some Thing was shortlised for the National New Media Art Award, at GOMA (Gallery of Modern Art) in 2012, the most significant new media award in the country. The work was included in the 2012 exhibition, showcasing the work of leading Australian new media artists including George Poonkhin Khut, Leah Heiss and Ross Manning. The two month exhibition at GOMA, Queensland's premier visual arts institution, resulted in a published colour catalogue with an essay the artist's work by curator Amanda Slack-Smith.