APPROACHING THE AMBIENT:
Creative Practice and the Ambient Mode of Being


CD box set (Tolling)  [not available online]
Book of Images (Spotting, Surfacing, Orientating)  [pdf 2.5MB]
Essay  [pdf 1.7MB]
Visual Appendix to the Essay  [pdf 2.5MB]



Between 2003 and 2007, I completed a doctoral research project (PhD) at the Creative Industries Faculty, QUT, entitled Approaching the Ambient: creative practice and the ambient mode of being. The research involved the creation and presentation of a particular form of visual and sonic installations, accompanied by philosophical, historical and processual analysis. Of central concern was a highly immersive way of relating to our surroundings referred to as the 'ambient mode of being', which, as much as possible, dissolves distinctions between foreground and background leaving us to encounter an ambient ground all-around-us.

The final submission included a multi-venue exhibition, a book of images, a set of audio CDs, and an extended essay with a visual appendix.