Alex Davies
Born: Sydney, NSW
Lives and Works: Sydney, NSW
Artist Statement
The Very Near Future – Part 4, 2025
Sound, light
Actors:
Emcee - Andrew Maher
Eddie - Steve Rodgers
Patsy - Lenka Kripac
Vinnie - Matt Prest
Director - Greg Ferris
Collaborative Screenwriter: Joe Velikovsky
The Very Near Future – Part 4 immerses the audience in a branching time-travel multiverse. The cast and crew of a film production company are trapped in a time rift, endlessly re-shooting Scene 32, Take 7 from the fictional noir film The Hophead Hatchet Man. With each temporal reset, the scene diverges in a new direction—revealing shifting character motivations, evolving events, and dramatically different outcomes across alternate realities.
About the Artist
Dr Alex Davies is an award winning Australian media artist whose practice spans a diverse range of media and experiments with interaction, technology, perception, mixed reality and illusion. He was awarded a PhD in Media Arts at the University of New South Wales’ College of Fine Arts (2013) examining the relationship between the techniques of stage magic and the creation of illusion in media arts. He is a Scientia Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at UNSW Australia Art & Design, and has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally. He is the recipient of Qantas Foundation Contemporary Australian Art Award, UNSW Scientia Fellowship andCreative Australia Fellowship.
