Upcoming artists-in-residence Pamela Lee Brenner and Johannes Muljana

Sydney based multi-media artists Pamela Lee Brenner and Johannes Muljana have been working on collaborative art projects together since 2005, under the name Frolic & Gambol.

Pamela Lee Brenner & Johannes Muljana (Frolic & Gambol), Traces, 2011,
computer driven animation, custom software, projection

Pamela has a background in architecture and art direction for TV. She is also a contemporary artist with a strong interest in sculptural, object and multimedia installations. Her work has travelled around Australia, being part of various art festivals in Sydney, regional New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia.


Pamela Lee Brenner & Johannes Muljana (Frolic & Gambol), Interference, 2012, 
recycled radios, projector, transmitter, camera, custom software and sound
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Johannes has a background in software and web development and has been working in interactive and electronic multimedia installations. His work has been exhibited in many group exhibitions around Sydney and regional New South Wales, as well as online.


Pamela Lee Brenner & Johannes Muljana (Frolic & Gambol), Let’s Face the Music and Dance, 2012,
200 recycled polystyrene and polycarbonate glasses, monofilament, steel, birdnet and polyester webbing

Pamela and Johannes’ recent collaborations include sculptural installations for Sculpture in the Vineyards in the Hunter Valley; an electronic, radio and sound installation at the ATVP gallery in Newtown for Head-On Festival; a sustainable sculptural installation for Thirroul Seaside Arts Festival; an augmented reality virtual sculpture installation for Sydney Art Month; a sound piece for Deep Wireless radio art festival in Toronto; and a video work in Breathing Space exhibition at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery.


Pamela Lee Brenner & Johannes Muljana (Frolic & Gambol), Chairs of Jakarta - Life Support, 2012,
reconfigured furniture, twigs and electroluminescent wire

During our Gunyah residency we plan to develop three new works for our upcoming exhibition at ATVP (At The Vanishing Point) in Newtown Sydney. The first is composed of sound bytes sampled from found vinyl records remixed with sounds recorded from nature. We will also be developing a free phone/tablet app based on 'Traces', to form a composition of narratives in our memory and how we remember events. The other work will be a series of interactive drawings with animated components revealed through the use of Augmented Reality technology, so that these drawings of landscapes and street-scapes gradually morph into alternative scenes.


Pamela Lee Brenner, Altared Memory, 2011, 
reconfigured furniture, fired and unfired ceramic, polyurethane, pigment

To find out more about Pamela and Johannes’ collaborative practice and see more of their work go to www.a9project.net


Johannes Muljana, Subconscious Agencies, 2010, 
computer driven animation, custom software, projection