Just 100 miles off the coast of New York City lies the Hudson Canyon, a vast underwater geological feature on the scale of the Grand Canyon. The Canyon’s biodiversity was first documented during the Arcturus Oceanographic Expedition in 1925. Artists and scientists from the Department of Tropical Research (DTR) of the New York Zoological Society […]
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UNNERVED 2020 – On Going
UNNERVED was developed through the fEEL Lab Fellowship at the University of New South Wales. Drawing on neuroscience research, the work visualizes the body’s stress responses—mapping anxiety as color, motion, and sound. Through moving image and immersive projection, UNNERVED translates invisible states of the nervous system into shared sensory experiences. Audiences were invited to reflect […]
Unnerved – Chapter 14
Chapter 14UnnervedAnita Glesta I’m not wrong am I? To seek the pumping heart in the head, little rose on fire…( – excerpt from the poem, ‘Tongue on Fire’, developed by Abigail Wender in response to AnitaGlesta’s work, Unnerved (2021)). Fig. 14.1. Untitled, oil on canvas, 48 inches x 72 inches. Anita Glesta, 2017. My father […]
Australian works
Lenticular Lens 1998 “Wynyard Park” was commissioned by the city of Sydney in 1998. This work was created as a temporary signage/sculptural work for a city park and was sited at a bus stop at the entrance to the park.The technology is called “lenticular lens” and involves two or three images on a single screen. […]
Watershed animation
HEART (triptych)
Yurong Water Gardens, Sydney Australia, 2000
One of Anita Glesta’s notable public works is located in Cook and Phillip Park, a central urban space in Sydney, Australia. Commissioned in collaboration with landscape architects Spackman & Mossop, Glesta designed a terraced water garden using indigenous sandstone. This public park opened in January 2000 as part of the City of Sydney’s initiative to […]