Born 1966 in London, UK. Lives and works in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia.
David Haines employs photography, sound, video, responsive installations and scent in his far-reaching practice. Haines has a long standing interest in the intersection of hallucination and landscape. He recently completed his Phd on the undercelebrated possibilities of aroma in contemporary art. Selected individual exhibitions include: Cosmic Vapour, BREENSPACE, Sydney (2010), Illume, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown (2009); Tokyo Floating Worlds, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania Australia (2007), Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, Te Tui Centre for the Arts, New Zealand (2007), The irrational, Scott Donovan Gallery Sydney (2005), Contemporary Projects VI, Contemporary Art Centre South Australia (2005), Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (2004); (the world may be) fantastic, Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2002). David’s live solo audio performances include, SCARPA Auckland NZ (2004); Tonic, NYC, USA 2004; Sigmaeditions European Tours (1999 & 2000) including: Gebaude9 Koln, Germany; Klub Dodo Rotterdam, Holland.
David Haines & Joyce Hinterding also collaborate on large-scale art works that explore sensation and immersion across a variety of experimental, traditional and digital media. Their work, The Outlands invites visitors to conduct their own voyage through an immersive digital world of forests and futuristic interiors for which they won the Ann Landa New Media Art Award at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2011). They have exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally. In 2009 their work, Earth Star received an Award of Distinction from Prix Ars Electronica, Linz Austria in the Hybrid Art category. Selected exhibitions include Sonic Spheres: the Tarrawarra Biennial 2012, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria; Light from Light, Sunvalley radio, National Library of China Beijing, China (2011); Turn and Widen, The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Korea (2008); Superlight, The 2nd Biennial 01SJ Art on the edge, San Jose Museum Art, California, USA, (2008); (in)visible sounds, Montevideo, The Dutch Institute for Time-based Art, Netherlands (2007); V2 Zone, Act interact, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan (2007); ReSearch, The Sendai MediaTech in Sendai, Japan (2006), Waves (Electromagnetic Waves as medium for Art), Riga, Latvia (2006), and they were the Australian National representatives at the 26th Biennial de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2004).
SELECTED EXHIBTIONS
2013
Sound Full, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand; Wellington City Gallery, New Zealand, curated by Caleb Kelly and Aaron Kreisler
Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, UTS Gallery, Sydney, curated by Adam Jasper and Holly Williams
Hollow in the Paper, CAST, Hobart, Tasmania, curated by Bec Stevens
A disassembled Jasmine, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Konica Minolta Redlands Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2012
Sonic Spheres: The Tarrawarra Biennial of Art, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria
Principle Matter, Contemporary Art Spaces (CAST), Tasmania
The Blocks, with Joyce Hinterding, Pier 2/3, commissioned by Studio Toogood, UK and Penfolds, Australia
2011
Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Monocline: white cube, BREENSPACE, Sydney
2010
7th Aotera Digital Arts, Symposium, -Ozinol - Sargeants Gallery Whanganui, New Zealand
The Gift, Parramatta artists studio’s Parramatta
Cosmic Vapour, BREENSPACE, Sydney
Light from Light, MAAP, Shanghai Library, China and State Library of Queensland, QLD
Green, Plimsol Gallery, Hobart
TAS
ICAN Covers, ICAN Institue for Contemporary Art, Newtown, Sydney
OCTOPUS 10: How We Know That The Dead Return, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces , Melbourne,
Group Show, Beta Decay, Breenspace Sydney
2009
Illume, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown
Festival Ars Electronica, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
The Dwelling, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
ENERGY. Scientific and artistic, utopian and critical visions of future terrestrial energy, Black Canyon Earth Field ART+COMMUNICATION XI 2009 International festival for new media culture Riga, Latvia.
Electromagnetic Composition for Building Plants and Stars, Adelaide Array, Royal Institute of Australia, Sydney
Prix Ars Electronica, EarthStar receives Award of Distinction in the Hybrid Art category, Exhibited in Cyber Arts 09 -OK Centrum, Linz Austria.
Royal Institute of Australia, Electromagnetic Composition for Building, Plants and Stars (Adelaide Array) Adelaide SA
The Dwelling, House 2: The Great Artesian Basin Pennsylvania, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
2008
Telepathy, Performance Space, Sydney
The Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award, GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland
Current 08 : Sculpture Projects in the River City, collaborative work from Joyce Hinterding and David Haines, Parramatta City Council, Parramatta
HEADLAND, ICAN Institute for Contemporary Art, Newtown
Electromagnetique Composition for Building Plants and Stars, BREENSPACE, Sydney
Turn and Widen, The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, Korea
Modern Ruin, GOMA Gallery of Modern Art Queensland, Brisbane
IASKA, International Art Space Kellerberrin Australia, Fremantle, WA
Waves – The Art of the Electromagnetic Society, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Germany
Superlight, The 2nd Biennale 01SJ Art on the Edge, San Jose Museum Art, California, USA
2007
The Visitors – Aliens and UFOs in Contemporary Art, Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest, Sydney
Tokyo-Floating Worlds, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
(in)visible sounds, Montevideo, The Dutch Institute for Time-based Art, Netherlands
V2 Zone, Act interact, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, Te Tui Centre for the Arts, New Zealand
2006
Re:search – art collaboration between Australia and Japan, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
Two works for Wilhelm Reich, OrupDesert 1954-55 after field study number 2, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, WA
Waves, 8th International Festival for New Media Culture, Art & Communication, Riga, Latvia
Under the Radar, FACT, Liverpool, England
2005
The Butterfly Effect, The Museum of Sydney
The irrational, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney
Hollow earth theory revived: Field study 1& 2, 24hr Art, Darwin, NT
Day & Night, Contemporary Art Centre South Australia
Vanishing Point, Experimenta, Artspace, Sydney
2004
Image Smugglers in a Free Territory, 6th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide, South Australia
Lets talk about six, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
2003
The Liquid Sea, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Ten Days on the Island Festival, CAST, Hobart
Remembrance + The Moving Image: Persistence of Vision, ACMI Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2002
Deep Space – Sensation & Immersion, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne & MAAP - Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, Bejing
st@rt up: new interactive media, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa
The World (May Be) Fantastic, 13th Sydney Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Problems In Paradise, Scott Donavan Gallery, Sydney & Liquid Architecture, Melbourne
2001
Space Odysseys, Sensation & Immersion, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2000
The Levitation Grounds, Artspace, Sydney
Pivot v: about Photography, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Atomic, The Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
1999
Eccentric Orbit – Australian Video Art of the Nineties, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Haines, Morley, Bugden & Tilly, Rm 3, Auckland, New Zealand
Re-Worked, The Film Centre, Wellington, New Zealand
Oblique, Otira, New Zealand
1998
Avatar, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
Music’s Dead Return, Manning River Regional Art Gallery, NSW & Side On Gallery, Sydney
1997
Medievalism – Musical & Non Musical Kingdoms, Artspace, Sydney
Evil Art, Side On Gallery, Sydney (group exhibition)
Ghostship Low, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
1996
Palimpsest, Artspace Sydney; RMIT, Melbourne & Canberra Contemporary Artspace, Canberra
Silver Forest Cemetery & Words become stars, Z.A Moca Shinjuku, Tokyo
1995
Sound In Space: Australian Sound Art, Screen Sound Program, MCA, Sydney
1994
Universal Lever - SOUNDWATCH94, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
1993
VIDEOPOSITIVE93, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
The Black Art of the Family, Selenium Gallery, Sydney
1992
Museum of Fire - A Video Trilogy by David Haines, Chris Caines and John Conomos
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; Institute Of Modern Art, Brisbane; 6th Australian Video Festival, Sydney; Experimenta92, Melbourne; University Of Newcastle, Australia; New Visions – Glasgow; Videofest92 Berlin, selected for touring to Argentina and Italy by Videofest92 committee; SCANNERS OF MEMORY, Videopositive93, Liverpool, England
LIVE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC PERFORMANCES & TOURS
2013 Niteworks, Bundanon Siteworks, 12 October 2013
2010 Monocline, with Joyce Hinterding, Super Deluxe at Artspace, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
2008 American Modern Variations, La Campana, Dual Plover, Sydney
Untitled, Gift Project, Blacktown Arts Centre, Blacktown, NSW
2007 American Modern, The Winecellar, Auckland, New Zealand
2006 Impermanent Audio, solo performance, Pelt Gallery, Sydney
2005 Don’t look now, solo performance, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Terminus Projects launch, Sunvalley performance of untitled composition from dammed revolutions
2004 Tonic, solo performance, NYC, USA
SCARPA, solo performance, Auckland New Zealand
None Gallery, solo performance, Dunedin, New Zealand
2001 Live performance by Sun Valley, Waveform Computer Music Conference, UWS, Sydney
Voices of the Living Dead, sound in association with the exhibition Faces of the Living Dead by Martyn Jolly, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney
2000 What is Music Festival Melbourne 2000, solo performance from Sigma 009 Emo
What is Music Festival Sydney 2000, opening night solo performance, Imperial Slacks, Sydney
Impermanent Audio, solo performance from Sigma 009 Emo, Sigma Editions, European Tour, October – November 2000
Live performances at the following venues – Galerie Schniederei Koln,Germany; Gebaude9, Koln, Germany; Klub Dodo Rotterdam, Holland; VHS: Zentrum am Schloss, Saarbrucken, Germany; Batofar, Paris, France; Cave12, Geneva, Switzerland; Brancaleone, Rome, Italy; Cox 18, Milan, Italy
1999 Sigma editions, European tour, June – July 1999
Live performances at the following venues – Gloria, Helsinki, Finland; Realkool gymnasium, Tallin, Estonia; Ost club, Frankfurt, Germany; Unter-Saarbrucken, Germany; Extrapool-Imejden, Holland; Club Zwei- Munich, Rhiz, Vienna, Austria; Geubadu 9, Koln, Germany; WMF, Berlin, Germany
ARTIST PUBLICATIONS & RECORDINGS
2008 Joyce Hinterding & David Haines, The Immaterial’s – molecules, language, vibration, Current 08 : Sculpture Projects in the River City, Parramatta City Council and Parramatta Artists Studio, Sydney, 2008,
2001 David Haines, Emo – d.haines, Sigma 009, Sigma Editions, New York & London, 2001, audio CD
2000 Maatsuyker, Neuss Rec, audio CD
1999 Blither, d.haines Sigma 004, Sigma Editions, New York & London, 1999, audio CD
1997 Experiments for feedback and multiple pianos, Helmholtz/Magnetic Media, audio CD
1996 Eternal Return, Helmholtz/Magnetic Media, audio CD
Medium/Slow/Fast, Helmholtz/Magnetic Media, audio CD
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 Interview with David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, 'Orgasm', Das Platforms, Das Cinema, 20 June 2012, <http://www.dasplatforms.com/das_cinema/haynes-hinterding-orgasm/>
Robert Nelson, 'Sonic Music to our Ears', The Age, 10 October 2012
Tarrawarra Biennial 2012: Sonic Spheres, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria 2012
The Press, produced for The Blocks by Studio Toogood, London and Penfolds, 2012
2008 Nicholas Chambers, ‘Earth Star’, The Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award, GOMA, Brisbane, QLD, 2008
Andrew Murphie, Escaping Influence Ritual, Telepathy, Performance Space, Sydney, 2008
2004 Ann Finnegan, Day and Night, CACSA, 2005
Nicolas Tsoutas, ‘Purple Rain’, The 26th Bienal de Sao Paulo, National Representations, Brazil, 004, pp84–87
‘Born to be Wild, Silver Hill’, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 2004
2003
Israel, Glenis, Senior Artwise 2: Visual Arts 11-12, John Wiley and Sons, Milton, 2003
Conversations with Australian Artists Volume 1: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, featuring interviews with John Olsen, Joyce Hinterding, David Haines, Ginger Riley Munduwalawala & Fiona Hall
, 2003 (video)
Ross Gibson, 'Undertow1999’, Remembrance + the moving image, ACMI, 2003
2002 Ann Finnegan, ‘17 Century’, 13th Sydney Biennale, 2002
2000 Victoria Lynn, Space Odysseys, AGNSW & ACMI, 2001
Ann Finnegan, The Levitation Grounds, Artspace, 2000
1999 Margaret Marsh, Michelle Watts and Craig Malyon, ‘Chapter 17: Tableau Vivant: Video Art’, A.R.T. 2: Practice, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1999, p.252
1997 Mark Jackson, ‘Nemein’, Medievalism...Musical/Non Musical Kingdoms, Artspace, 1997
SELECTED JOURNALS & ARTICLES
2012 Peter Entwisle, 'Modern Art has come so far', Otago Daily Times, 17 September 2012
2010 Rosemary Sorensen, Let there be light, in the shade of a library, The Australian, October 18, 2010
2009 Lizzie Muller, ‘Smelling the sun, breathing a river, new works by Joyce Hinterding & David Haines, RealTime, Issue 89, Feb–March 2009, p27
2007 Wendy Haslem, ‘Side by side: Australian & Japanese media art’, RealTime, Issue 77 Feb–March 2007
Eve Sullivan, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 91, 2007
2006 Ashley Rawlings, ‘Artists go global in Sendai’, The Japan Times, 14 December 2006
Linda Carroli, ‘Joyce Hinterding and David Haines and The New Media Artists Camp, Oenpelli, Arnhem Land, 12.20S Latitude, 133.04E Longitude’, Photofile, No. 76, Summer 2006, p46
2005 Phillip Auslander, ‘David Haines and Joyce Hinterding’, ArtForum International, October 2005
Adam Geczy, ‘Natural Disasters in Sao Paulo’, ArtMonthly, No. 177, March 2005, p.43
Ashley Crawford, ‘Worlds apart in an ancient land’, The Age, 20 August 2005
Victoria Lynn, ‘The art of the screen in Australia’, Art & Australia, Vol. 40, No. 4, Winter, pp.584–89
2001 Benjamin Genocchio, ‘Mind altering multimedia mix’, The Australian, 24 August 2001
Bruce James, ‘Take a walk on the quiet side of techno-art’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 2001, p16
Adam Geczy, ‘Space odyssey: light visions’, RealTime, Issue 45, October – November
Jim Haynes, D.Haines: Emo, Adventures in Modern Music, Wire Magazine, Issue 211, September 2001, United Kingdom
2000 Douglas Kahn and Fran Dyson, ‘The Levitation Grounds’, Eyeline, Issue 43, Spring 2000
Charles Green, ‘Review of The Levitation Grounds’, Art and Text, No. 70, August – October 2000
1999 Peter Hill, ‘Vision Shines in Lighthouse’, The Australian, Friday April 30 1999
Sean Kelly, ‘art.business@the Lighthouse’, Art Monthly, No. 119, May 1999, p.20
Ed Pinset, The Sound Projector, No. 6, 1999, United Kingdom
Nicholas Gebhardt, ‘A Minimal Turn’, Broadsheet, Vol. 28, Winter 1999
Diana Klaosen, ‘A Meta World of Watchfulness’, RealTime, June – July 1999
1998 Ann Finnegan, ‘Mortuar – James Joyce, Lacan and the work of David Haines’, Abaddon, January 1998
8 June – 7 July 2012
13 May – 25 June 2011
29 January – 19 February 2011
12 November – 23 December 2010
4 February – 6 March 2010
31 October – 22 November 2008