Benjamin Read is an interdisciplinary artist and designer who is currently based in Sydney, NSW, Australia. Read's artistic practice employs 3D modeling and large format multi-screen projection to explore the boundaries between the real, the hyper-real, and the exploration of the space-time implied behind and beyond the frame.

In one of his works titled The Waves (2015), he explored the relational play between the real and the simulated, the virtual and actual by employing noise algorithms to simulate a virtual seascape. Projected against multiple hanging screens the above-mentioned work provides a visceral challenge to assumed boundaries between natural and technical, virtual and actual, informatic and material.

Read is a skilled visual effects artist and designer, enthused by the potential of contemporary digital effects in film and animation and with a keen interest in exploring and extending expressive possibilities of that field beyond that of today’s standard. He has extensive knowledge of all major platforms pertaining to the craft of 3D Character Effects and relishes the challenges and opportunities of a field that is constantly in flux. He is currently employed as a Character Effects Artist at Flying Bark Productions in Sydney, Australia.

Exhibitions

2018 Exhibitor at the DigiTart Festival at Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong, NSW

2018 Participant of the CGTrader Digital Art Competition

2015 'The Waves' in Dlux Media Arts IS THIS ART? No. 6 | November 2015 Screening at the Artereal Gallery, Rozelle, Sydney. Documentation on the Exhibition can be found here.

2015 'The Waves' for 'Finding Ground' Graduation Show at the Innovation Campus Fairy Meadow.

Teachings and Workshops

2015 Media Arts Tutor, MEDA302, University of Wollongong
2015 Media Arts Tutor, MEDA301, University of Wollongong
2014 Media Arts Tutor, MEDA202, University of Wollongong