A fascinating insight into one of the most innovative creative partnerships in Australasia. An artist talk by Raewyn Turner and Brian Harris.

As partners in life and practice, they have created many innovative, immersive and/or interactive works and engaged in numerous significant international research residencies spanning science art and technology.

Raewyn Turner is an interdisciplinary visual artist concerned with cross-sensory perception and the uncharted territories of the senses. She has worked with olfaction since 1999. Her works have been shown and presented in numerous national, and international exhibitions including Performance Arcade, Spectra, Big Anxiety Festival, What Taste is the Colour Blue LA, ISEA, Synesthesia Art & Science Spain, China, 11th Prague Quadrennial, MOMA LA, Pompidou Centre, Te Papa Museum NZ. She was the conceptual artist for Multisensory Concerts for the Deaf (Four Senses ), and set and lighting designer for eight years with Split Enz, ENZO and theatre productions NZ, Australia.

Brian Harris trained in physics, maths and electronics and has since practised as a design engineer making mechatronic and bespoke equipment for the NZ and international film industry. His inventions for a motion control rig for simultaneously filming miniature and full-sized actors, film camera motion control robotic trajectories and stabilized camera mounts for aerial photography and have been used in local and international commercials and film productions including Lord of the Rings, Utu, Once were Warriors and many others.