the quiet things in life...the visions that come from light...what is seen in all realities
Awards
Wild Creations Artist Residency, 2006,
Festivals
Parihaka Piece Festival 2008, Canaan Downs Festival 2007, Dunedin Fringe Festival 2006, Wellington Fringe Festival 2004, 9Dragons head environment symposium South Korea 2004, Kaikora Roots Music Festival 2003-2006, Belladonna short Film Festival 2003, New Zealand International Film Festival 2002,
Professional Affiliations
Currently Tutoring and Lecturing at Victoria University Design School as well as undertaking Master’s research for a new VJ project.
2000-2004 Director of project shown* a collective promoting experimental video art by facilitating screenings and events.
Someone wrote this about me for a gig last year it’s pretty much on the nail.
"This diminutive digital darling, formally Vj D.light, now performs under her own fabulous name.
Vj-ing for over 9 years across New Zealand, she is known for defying the odds and sticking to %100 original content, which is sensationally rare! Like a passionate botanist she travels great distances to remote locations with eyes wide open to gather samples of unique, organic, abstract, timeless and naturalised images, with a dash of urban. These specimens merge and layer in emotive colour, shape and movement.
As a video artist her images have screened internationally and she is remembered for presenting spectacular live video performances at the legendary Gathering, Kaikora Roots festival, Visions down beat cafe, Destinations, Alpine unity’s main zone, and many a Massive productions outdoor seasonal rave.
Gaining a reputation as a southern wanderer, she sails under the radar projecting and reconfiguring her ever-growing collection for your viewing pleasure with technical precision. Watch for the albatross.
Creativity, inspiration, professionalism, a few electric shocks and don’t forget a little bit of bump and grind combine in a tinkering fusion of Naomi Lamb’s many talents."
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Video After Dark on Inertia an experimental video with UK sound artists A Glass Of MilK..."Apparently, as in Lamb’s video, inertia can give us pause for thought, or it can drive us crazy."
New Zealand Wilderness Magazine, November Issue..."In late May Stasi Turnbull and I [Sally Farr Biswell] drove up to meet artist Naomi Lamb in Karamea...Lamb is a new media artist known for her insightful video work and VJ mixes. She chose Karamea and the Heaphy Track for the dramatic scenery, but also for personal reasons. ’My Mum carried me on her back across the Heaphy when I was 18 months old...Its an amazing place, a place I want to capture on film, and there are so many stories here..."
Found in Presto magazine...Tania Boe of the Blue Earth Gallery thought my exhibition"...’A Moment of pause’ achieves in creating a feeling of awe and discovery, a beautiful series of strong yet tranquil imagery unique to our home."
Naomi Lamb's Interests
General
talking, and sharing life stories
Music
Just some music maker’s I’ve done live visuals for…...
The Mad Professor, Infusion, Lee Scratch Perry, Dead Beat, The Black Seeds, Digital, Trinity Roots, Fat Freddie’s Drop (@ Kaikora roots) Salmonella Dub, Ian pooley, Dick Jonson,The Nomad, Adam Shaik, Max Maxwell, Harry Harrison, Katalyst, Organism, Rhian Sheehan, Lotus, Pacific Heights, (destination), the d4, DLT, Alpharhythm, Snippet. Landline, Physoundart, Stickyfingers,
Some of the Vjs I’ve worked with/for or along side.......
VJ Cathode Ray Nipple, Rayzordoll, Disaster Unit (C6), Vj Helm, Lotech, Eithervision/warp TV, Team Optrex, VJ Yettimon, Dnation, Selenious, Vj Diva, VJ Dell, Head of the bay, Mr J, Physoundart, VJ Slasher, VJ D.light (lol), Dan freeform, Safire, VJ Rex, Lupavision
If they were coming up in the world today maybe they would have at least popped their heads in and taken a look into the art of vj-ing.
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Walt Disney, Nam June Paik, Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Len Lye, Brackage, Richard Prossue-Dartt..................................
Movies
The Wanderer is my latest screen installation. Offering the viewer a place to relax and be immersed in the stunning visual delight that lies hidden in the Kahurangi National Park. To have a real world experiance of this you must be up for walking a full 4 days....
In the past you may have seen some of these experimental videos of mine, maybe on a big screen or in an installation, or perhaps they were being recontextualised during a live projection remix one night....just maybe...xxx
Re-creation Recreation, ('99)immersive audio visual photo realist 3d animation and video installation...
some days and private, ('00)meditative experimental shorts that explore an introverted visual exploration of small towns and interiors...
G1('01)This 22 minute experimental Documentary presents an overview of what the legendary Gathering party had to offer in 2000. over 17000 party people converged in Takaka to experiance a three day outdoor New Year festival like no other. ...
Over view ('03)the imagery of a flight over the Canturbury plains edited to fit an installation site in Germany, the meditative movement in a circular frame abstracts the subject and draws the viewer to make his or her own reflections.
Old News ('04)The creation of this multi media installation and video was on location in South Korea during an international environment symposium. the third incarnation of this installation was on tour for two years as part of the New Alchemists (art in reclamed materials) tour...
Forgotten Islands Of the South Pacific ('05)with no real intent other that to gather amazing footage on an amazing experiance I made an experimental visual journal while experiancing some of the Sub-Antartic Islands of New Zealand, this was also edited on location...in this case a ice breaker ship in the middle of the Southern Ocean(vj samples abounded after this trip)
Picturesque ('06)An immersive live screen art performance that explores the relationship we have with nature, the colonial undercurrent to control our environments but sometimes its best to let nature be and be free...
Books
would rather only read if i can write in the margins.......better yet you read something and tell me about it...
Hi, Naomi! how are you doing these days? these days,I took a lot of photo for the next footages. by the way,I uploaded my collaboration movie with my friend Guitarlist SusumuNishikawa. if you like, plz check it! cheers.
Hey you, just bout to go get more tattoos, almost finished my half sleeve. Hope you enjoyed yourself on new years and let your hairs down. Im stoked im getting another keyboard to borrow so ye fricken ha.right you are sunshine best i get on me merry way.xxxxxxxxx
Hiya! Both me and turtle power tom francis have been super busy of late, sorry for not being in touch more. our new tape has finally been sent off to print, it's taken ages to get this all sorted like, i feel rubbish it has taken so long. Tom has joined two bitchin new bands, and i've started a banjo oufit and gamelan side project , so all is busy busy. Will get some stuff to you soon will probably be after chrimbo mind. What's going on with you then? Hope you are swell! Luke Splinter Francis
"There are nights When the wolves are silent And only the moon howls. How like a queen Comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains Of the clouds Walking in beauty To her midnight throne! On Halloween, Witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.... Shadows of a thousand years Rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!" Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight Make me a child again Just for to-night!"
Hi, How are things? I'm living in Brisbane these days. It looks like all is goin well in VJ world. Do you keep in contact with Razordoll? I miss you both heaps. It's been great meeting new people and getting to know a new city, while simultaneously I miss the old places and my mates livin in them.
