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Birringer, J. (2008) Performance, Technology & Science, PAJ Publications/New York (December 2008) This ground-breaking work of scholarship explores convergences between performance and science through an investigation of new technologies that drive computer-mediated, interactive art. In tracing the evolution of digital performance within a particular history of engineering and theatre that now expands to a wide range of practices in dance, design, architecture, fashion, games, music, robotics, telematic performance, and "post-production"-theatre, the author focuses on interactive performance, installation and Internet art... The work of key artists, theatre/dance companies, and laboratories demonstrates how scientific concepts have influenced digital performance, and how performance relates to neuroscience, biology and the life sciences. Challenging common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, this study addresses how artists use artificial intelligence, machine learning, and sensing technologies not only to enhance the range of expression and visualization, but to bridge the gap between the work and its user.

Patterson, C (2009) Living Outside the Body Constraint A Report from The 59th International Astronautical Congress ,Artillery Magazine, World of Science, May/Jun 2009 Vol 3 Issue 5 ...The ocean is an analog to space. In many ways it is equally inaccessible, especially because in places it is harder to image, with pressures that are technically challenging to cope with at the deeper extremes. Artist and diver Sarah Jane Pell has fashioned what she calls "a studio practice underwater," working with scientists to measure biorhythms in different states of immersion, and becoming accustomed to what most people would consider intensely claustrophobic experiences. Pell has a slight but tall frame that she remarkably compresses into diving bells, and aquarium tanks during land-based performances...The body can become accustomed to the difficulties and poetics of motion in extra-terrestrial environments through training in the ubiquitous watery environment of our home planet...

Polli, A. (2007) AER artists, air and the environment ,GreenMuseum.org ...Australian performance artist Sarah Jane Pell's works highlight the body's transfer of air and our dependence on air as living, breathing beings. They explore the physical and emotional limits of the body. Interdepend creates a closed-circuit life support system between Pell and artist Martyn Coutts, and Undercurrent presents a single performer contained within a sealed transparent dome with a finite amount of breathable air. These works are extremely physically demanding for the performer and have an overwhelming emotional intensity. In Fumifugium, Evelyn refers to the air as the soul or spirit of man. Pell's works seem to give that soul or spirit a physical manifestation, either through human interdependence or through a single womb-like containment that without breathable air could quickly become a tomb. Like Raaf's work, her works also seem to hold a vision of the future. Translator II Grower presents a robot that methodically records the human imprint on air. This rover, which can continue to perform its duties even if the air becomes toxic to humans, seems to quietly question our future on the planet if we continue to poison our air. In Pell's case, this vision is an apocalyptic one in which the very air we breathe is a limited commodity, tied to a time clock we need to robotically feed. In the future, will the earth's fragile atmosphere continue to sustain us, or will we be forced to remain contained in controlled environments while our machines roam freely, reporting to us the world outside?.. Aer - The Vehicle of the Soul feature on Sarah Jane Pell, Interdepend

Clarke, R. (2007) Bits, Bytes and the Rhetoric of Practice: New Media Artist Statements, NMC Media-N, New Media Caucus, US Fall 2007 v.03 (n.01)posted 28 August 2007 The intent of Bits, Bytes and the Rhetoric of Practice: New Media Artist Statements, 2007, was to get a sense of what is happening in New Media from the ground level - from the artists who are creating it. This edition is a snapshot of New Media now, and rather than depicting a streamlined, neatly categorized sample of genres, it magnifies the rich diversity that is New Media practice today. Sarah Jane Pell - aqueous, performance, technologies,

Shih, S., (2007) Taiwan-Australian cooperation creates new species of art, Taiwan Journal Vol. XXIV, No. 25, 29 June 2007; In Walking with Water, Australian artist Sarah Jane Pell combined her hobby of scuba diving with her art to explore the physical and mental strengths of the human body in the ocean, Lin said. Using breathing apparatus, Pell performed in her own work, undergoing a spiritual journey as she adapted to challenging extreme environments.

Chun-Te, Lin., (2007) Yuan Guang-Ming, the city siege, BOOM! Taiwan-Australia New Media Arts, United Daily News, Taiwan, 2 June 2007, pp. 5; ...It is more difficult to categorize the "other forms" Australian artists such as Dr. Sarah Jane Pell's works and splashing through" (Walking with Water), with professional divers identity in the works of artists to become performers, she sneaked into the water installations, to express their own behavior in the water spiritual journey, exploring the water body's proprioceptive response. This process may be recorded audio-visual device to the scene has to bring the audience a creepy blue strange feeling..." Yuan Guang-Ming

Apfel, D., (2007) The Milky Way Podcast - Exploring Space by Asking People, No. 2: Sarah Jane Pell, Radio Evolutcio, Barcelona Spain. 29 May 2007 See. http://www.elclubdelosastronautas.com archives

Birringer, J. H., (2007) Performance and Science PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art - PAJ 85 (Volume 29, Number 1), MIT Press January 2007, pp. 21-35; Australian diver/performance artist Sarah Jane Pell will test it next year in a performance...

Heinonen, T., (2006) 'Aquabatics - performancsseja sisaavaruudessa', Vappa Kirjoittaja Sukeltaja, Teatteri – Esitystaiteen Aikakauslehti, Porovoo Finland, pp. 36-37, Vol. 7 2006 SciArt? Presentation, science and technology - to digital, and "disneyfication". Science and art of combining the projects open up new horizons and at the same time obscured by the old parish boundaries. Mediatisation and digitalisation affect revolutionarily technology, ruumiillisuuden, aistisuuden and awareness interfaces to new types of performance beings. Researcher Timo Heinonen opens essay presentation, and scientific and technological relations.

Bell, S., (2006) 'Subhumanism', Thinker-in-residence, Edith Cowan University for Performing Rights, PSI12, Royal College, London

Mendez, T., (2006) Sarah dives in to help NASA with Moon home, The West Australian, Dec 13, p. 46

Mwangi, E., (2005-6) Aquabatics Fluid Movement, eucCCI, Issue One, Summer 2005-2006 p. 11

Anthony, D. (2005) ARC Biennale Petrification Pell & English, Vulture, ABC TV, Nov 1

Stephens, T., (2005) Petrification, Sarah Jane Pell & Lawrence English, ARC Biennale Catalogue p.49

Birringer, J. & Danjoux, M., (2005) The Telematic Dress: evolving garments and distributed prior-proception in streaming media & fashion performance, Wearable Technologies Conference, Leeds University, September 14, UK Life system and subculture bodysuit. Finally, a project created in collaboration with Australian diver and performance artist Sarah Jane Pell ("Sub Culture: the Liminal Bio Sphere") for the World Space Organization exhibition (Space Soon, September 2006) involves the design of an underwater suit for a performer immersed in a human-scale aqueous bioreactor. This test is predicated on observational study of clinical and personal emotive responses. Here the observation of living system behavior is complicated by the extreme condition of the submerged performer body undergoing a sustained laboratory-style experiment and needing to adapt to an alien condition (comparable to performance investigations in alien environments, e.g. releasement and disengagement phenomena described in zero gravity,deconstruction and reconstruction phenomena described in micro gravity, cagedness phenomena described in both confined space habitat and open plateaus, and pneumato phenomena described in both subterranean and high altitude)...

Birringer, J. & Danjoux, M., (2005) The Telematic Dress: evolving garments and distributed prior-proception in streaming media & fashion performance, Wearable Technologies Conference, Leeds University, September 14, UK

Mi2 Kontejner, (2005) TOUCH ME festival - intersections of technology, science and art | | ABUSE OF INTELLIGENCE | Zagreb, Croatia | Sept. 8-17, 2005 |Festival Catalogue, Zagreb, Croatia September 1 -11, 2005 pp.5; 20 -25; 47 The international festival _Touch Me_ presents contemporary art production at the intersection of science and technology. Including an exhibition, performances and a symposium, it will tackle the topic of Abuse of Intelligence. This thematic framework arises from the need for artistic and cultural analysis of contemporary forms of violence and systems of control. Starting from the twofold meaning of "intelligence" (implying both information and intellection), the project explores the abuse of information and intelligence, but also the forms of structural abuse brought about by the technological organization of contemporary social processes - abuses relating to information, telecommunications, media, technology, science, the entertainment industry, etc. Alongside the ethical and political problems of the info-sphere, the festival explores the abuse and manipulation of techno-scientific discoveries that disrupt, transform or create the living world and environment. The festival takes places within Operation:City [www.operacijagrad.org].

Marshall, J., (2005) The Art of Life Support, Real Time & On Screen Vol 68, Aug/ Sep 2005, p.48 Walking With Water offered a retrospective of work by performance and installation artist Sarah-Jane Pell, in what she calls “aquabatics.” Although she draws on the poetic and performative potential suggested by aquatic environments, her body of work is best described as an aestheticisation of life support systems. The body in water is dialectical, at once in communion with and conflict with water. Aquatic performance offers the possibility of an ecstatic release into the enveloping weightlessness of an azure world, yet nevertheless the body gags in the face of this fantasy, as the need for oxygen reasserts itself...

Britton, S., (2005) Artist Pages: New Work Aquabatics Sarah Jane Pell, Artlink Australia, Vol 25 No 3, pp.58 -59.

Ed. (2005) Walking with Water, Intersector WA Public Sector Magazine, Vol 11, No. 6, 1 July 2005 p.26

English, A. (2005) Artnotes WA: Sarah Jane Pell, Art Monthly Australia, No. 180 June 2005 p.51

McDonald Crowley, A., (2005) New Media Art investment in Australia, ARSIS 3-04 New Media Art and Multi-Media, University Helsinki Press, pp.26-28

Pierce, J., (2005) Beyond the Borders of Turing-Land , Experimenta- MESH 17: New Media Art in Australia and Asia, Jan 9 The strongest presence of Australian practitioners at ISEA was to be found on the ferry itself, with several new works by artists including ... Symbiotica (with Sarah Jane Pell and Nigel Helyer)... All of these artists are significant practitioners within the Australian new media arts community, and placed within the context of the party ferry, many of the works became a sort of colourful backdrop to the carnival...5

Roudavski, S., (2005) ISEA2004 Layers of Performance, NY Arts Magazine, (US) Jan/ Feb, pp.2-4

Roudavski, S., (2005) International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) 2004, Art Fairs International

Bell, S., (2005) Heidegger & BioTech Art, Paper given at SymbioticA, the art & science laboratory, School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia, December 17

Birringer, J., (2005) The Gargarin System: Reflections on Synnesthesia and Multimedia a workshop at Enfuit University, December 2004. Live Art Research Unit, Nottingham Trent University UK.

Norro, N., (2004) Lifeboat, Cultivating Living Cells and Critical Biological Art, M-Cult (Finland) ISEA04 Magazine, p.7

Gjerstad, I., (2004) Biologisk kunst, Aftenposten, Idag, Norway, 26, July pp.1; 6-7.

Fitzgerald, M (2004) Giving (Real) Life to Art, TIME Magazine, August 18 An article on the ground-breaking work by Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr (Tissue Culture & Arts). The article contextualises their research and ambitions for Lifeboat: the collaborative engagement with Nigel Helyer & Sarah Jane Pell.

Hoggarth, J., (2004) Underwater Love, Perth Womans Magazine, Autumn 2004, pp.128- 129

Helyer, N., (2004) Sonic Objects; Artist Profile, AFWA Newsletter, Autumn 2004, Vol 13, Ed. 1, p.3

Mateer, J., (2004) Arts Alive in the West: The National Review of Live Art, Midland, Perth, Art Monthly Australia, No. 166 December 2003 – February 2004, p.42

Miller, S., (2003) In Repertoire; a guide to Australian new media art, Australia Council, Nov 2003, p.10

Jansen, A., (2003) New Wave Artist, The West Magazine, Nov 28, p.27-28, pp.2, 27, 28

King, T., (2003) OCH 15, From Country, AFWA Newsletter, Summer 2003, Vol 12, Ed. 4, pp.6

McGrath, J. (2003) OCH #15, Exhibition Review, Art Seen in WA, Nov

Keegan, T., (2003) Our own little Mermaid, Busselton Herald, Oct 16, p.1, pp.1

Keegan, T., (2003) Art under the water pushes boundaries, Busselton-Margaret Times, Oct 16, pp.10

Brennan, M., (2003) A Meeting of Minds in Midland, National Review of Live Art Midland Cat. pp.4-6

Norton, S., (2003) October Focus: Sarah Jane Pell, RADO Newsletter, p.40

Moose, (2003) Balls n All, Sports & Leisure, Channel 31TV (Perth), Aug 30, Sep 2

Flindell, S., (2003) Cultural Exchange and the National Review of Live Art, Midland, Swap + Meet, AFWA Newsletter, Spring 2003, Vol 12, Ed. #3, pp.1, 32,10

Margetson, R., (2003) Underwater Opera, English Bites, ABC ASIAPACIFIC Magazine June