Daniel von Sturmer

Presented at Collingwood Yards by the Centre for Projection Art, Wurundjeri Country. 28 mins, 4k Red-Raw transferred to HD.

Commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (2019/2020), Melbourne. 60 screen video installation with custom superstructure, 23mins 43secs. Filmed over a 2 year period using an iPhone to capture encounters with events in the world and studio based experiments. The diegetic, natural sound is programmed across the array of screens creating a spatialised sonic score. This work was produced and presented on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung Country. The artist offers his respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Commissioned for Geelong Art Centre and produced by Monash Art Projects in association with Bluebottle and Brolec Electrical. 20mx 10m array of RGB tube lighting mapped with a sequence of 12 custom made 'paintings' filmed in studio. The work transposes paint into video, video into light.

2019 (Anna Schwartz Gallery). In CATARACT, 81 screens presented as a singular object, play short videos of small-scale ‘events’. A combination of impromptu recordings and staged scenarios, the work presents a dynamic array of moments that document everyday physical processes and occurrences: spinning, falling, breaking, burning, growing, slowing, starting, stopping… the world is full of happenings, but it is only through selective attention that meaning is found. /// This project was made with support from Monash Art, Design and Architecture. Photography: Zan Wimberley.

Animated light installation. Moving head profile light custom programming, custom gobos. 6 mins 30 seconds sequence. Electric Light (facts/figures/anna schwartz gallery upstairs) is an animated light installation that illuminates the architectural features of the gallery space using projected light to create an animated sequence of ‘figures’ that interact with the architecture. The work is part of an open series; a drawing in space, dynamically redrawn with each refresh of the sequence.

Dual screen video installation, Starkwhite Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Photographs by Sam Hartnett

Site specific installation featuring a moving head profile light, custom gobos and custom programming. Starkwhite Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Photographs by Sam Hartnett

Commissioned for the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, 2017 (winner). Produced and presented on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung Country. The work uses a high powered intelligent profile light with custom gobos projecting simple geometric drawings (figures) into the urban space. These activate and animate the facts of the site - the forms and attendant structures that inform the space's public use and history.

Animated light installation, 2017, Bus Projects, Melbourne. For video documentation see here and here.    

Documentation of the installation at Anna Schwartz Gallery, June 30 - July 23, 2016 showing excerpts of the animated light sequence. Watch on Vimeo here

Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, June 30 - July 23, 2016. Made with the assistance of the Australia Council for the Arts. Mixed media installation with 4 HD videos (programmable LED lights, moving head profile light, custom cables, backdrops, booms, supports). Images 11-17 by Zan Wimberley. See here for video documentation.

Anna Schwartz Gallery Melbourne, 2014. Five screen video installation, aluminium construction, laser cut MDF, parcan lights.

Young Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, 2014. 9 screen video installation. Made with the assistance of Arts Victoria, the Australia Council for the Arts and MADA.

Originally presented in the Courtenay Place Park Light Box project, Wellington, New Zealand, curated by Rob Garrett. The work presents a series of 16 works using a collection of found objects and recycled materials to form improbable sculptural stacks. Funded by the Wellington City Public Art Fund. (Installation image by Rob Garrett)

Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2013. 32 archival inkjet prints from photographs of object's shadows using a specially constructed set. Download the list of works here:  After Images list of works

Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 2012 - 7 screen video installation (High density polystyrene, custom made screens, pico projectors, LCD screens). Overall length: 15 metres approx

Commissioned by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (NZ) in 2011 for the exhibition 'Old Genes' curated by Tyler Cann. Mixed media installation in plywood and glass 'vitrine'. 3m (w) x 1.8m (h) x 1.2m (d) Motors, LED torches, mirror ball and mirror glass, steel, MDF and pine wood constructions, found LED lighting, glass objects.

Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, 2010 - 7 screen HD video installation, custom made screens (stainless steel, drafting film), scenery flats. Made with the assistance of The Australia Council for the Arts

Site Gallery Sheffield - 2009 - 6 screen video installation with architectural interventions. This project was support by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria.

10 screen video installation, 2008, Anna Schwartz Gallery. Photos: Mark Ashkanasy.

5 screen video installation with sculptural objects, custom built plywood platform, 2007, Australian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale. This project was supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.

The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2006 - 8 Screen video installation
 with objects. 
Originally commissioned by ACCA as 
The Helen Macpherson Smith Commission, 2006. Photo's: Andrew Curtis

5 screen video installation, 2005,  Anna Schwartz Gallery

4 screen video installation (1 synchronised dual channel video, 3 single channel videos) at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2004. Photos: Bill Nichol

5 screen video installation with 6m x 6m tilted plane. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, for NEW03, curated by Juliana Engberg

Selected excerpts from recent videos including: 
small world (chalk drawing), 2012 //
small world (landscape painting), 2012 // 
small world (pen drawing), 2012 // 
The Cinema Complex (Sequence 1), 2010
 // The Cinema Complex (Sequence 4), 2010
 // Painted Video (Sequence 4), 2009 //

// These projects were produced in Kulin Nations Country. I acknowledge and thank the Wurundjeri, Boon Wurrung, Wadda Wurrung, Taungurung and Dja Dja Wurrung Peoples as Traditional Custodians of these lands, and offer my thanks and respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. This always was and always will be, Aboriginal Land. //