Keith Deverell

Artist

Keith Deverell is a artist and designer whose work spans video art, audio visual installation, performance, interaction design, and computer programming. He has a Masters of Design (Communication) from RMIT University. Until 2008 he was employed at RMIT University as a Research Associate for the Australian Centre for Interaction Design (ACID). Keith is currently focusing on works that explore narrative structures through networked media. In his work he draws on current and previous ideas of database cinema, and the extension of object description through categorisation and displacement. Keith established Greyspace, a Sound and Image Laboratory in 2005.

Greyspace has curated programs of experimental film and video performance for the Melbourne International Film Festival, and in 2009 was awarded a City of Melbourne Laneways Commission, titled Rear Window. Rear Window was a series of video portraits of Chinese Workers taking breaks in and around China Town. These slow motion poetic and gestural images were rear projected through old windows on to the streets of Melbourne, projecting an image of the city back on itself. During the summer of 2009-2010, Keith created a street-based video work using QR Codes during the Copenhagen Climate conference and other cities in Europe and Japan.