Seth uses moving imagery to create environmental portraits. His practice focuses on the themes of social-politics, accessibility and the exploration of an audiovisual language. He is interested in the development of new media technologies as part of exploring hybrid videotexts. Previous projects include drama, documentaries and more recently a focus on media arts as a platform to examine the relationship between art and technology.
viewing video on this blog
studio links: http://dazed.adc.rmit.edu.au/~e62420/blog2/studio/
(includes rhizomes and train trip)
experimental video
‘videodefunct - pedestrian’ (vlog) collective Keith Deverell, Seth Keen, David Wolf, published online in curated selection, JavaMuseum art +blog = blogart, 2007
‘The Hazzard Diaries’, (interactive video) ‘Transformations’ electronic journal, ‘The Making Badlands Exhibition’ online artspace, 2006
‘The Hazzards’, (single-channel DVD) 16 min. triptych. Drift Video Works 5, Sydney Moving Image Coalition, UNSW, Selected Australia Centre for the Moving Image, Memory Grid Collection, Melbourne, 2005
‘sugartown’, (installation) single channel video 50 mins, audio loop, audio interviews, performance, Bundaberg Arts Centre, 2003
‘Nodal Dialectics 1.0’, (single-channel video), 2 min 42 sec, Electrofringe, video screening program, Newcastle, Oz Digital Shorts, curated by Peter Giles (AFTRS), Sydney Film Festival, 2005
‘boomsplatbangwhack’, (installation, single-channel DVD) 2 min. loop, National touring group exhibition (13 venues), WA, NSW, QLD including Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 2004-06
‘Sightless Vision’ (single-channel video), Experimental video, international competition, Screened dLux media arts - d>art01, Sydney Film Festival, 2001
Cinema
2001, ‘Honey’, Director, Co-Producer, (Melbourne, Auckland, Sydney) 12-minutes, 35mm short drama film funded by New Zealand Film Commission. Writer Christine Rogers, Script Advisor Andrew Bovell. Screened: NZ International Film Festival 2002, HOF Hamburg International Film Festival 2002, TV broadcast – TVNZ, TV3, Studio Universal Spain
1997-98, ‘The Love Letter’, Writer, Director, Producer, 16mm film. 5-minutes. Short drama film funded by N.Z. Arts Council. Screened International N.Z. Film Festival 1997, St. Kilda Film Festival
Television documentaries
1995-96, 'Godzone Sheep', Writer, Researcher, Director, Greenstone Pictures. 46 mins. A prime-time documentary on New Zealand art and craft interpretations of sheep. Broadcast TVNZ (Funding NZONAIR, TVNZ). 1994, ‘Live to Work’, Writer, Researcher, Director, Zee Films, 46 mins. A prime-time documentary on the Japanese work ethic in New Zealand. Production completed in Japan and N.Z. Broadcast TVNZ, (Funding NZONAIR, TVNZ). 1991-94, ‘First Hand Productions’, Producer, Documentary unit commissioned by TVNZ and NZONAIR. Responsible for producing primetime and half-hour documentaries for a series on everyday New Zealanders. Writer, Researcher, Camera, Editor, and Director on every production. ‘At Risk’, 46 mins. A 14-year old Polynesian teenager living on the streets. ‘Suzy,’ 46 mins. A prime-time documentary that examines orthodox and alternative cancer treatments. ‘The Two Minute Silence’, Half-hour documentary on the smallest N.Z. daily newspaper. ‘Surviving on the Benefit’, Half-hour documentary on a family totally dependent on welfare housing and benefits. ‘Gumboots and Tutus’, Half-hour documentary on performing arts competitions for children. ‘Out of Work’, Half-hour documentary on a middle class family facing redundancy. ‘Just to Back a Winner’, Half-hour documentary on a group of city TAB punters. Television factual programs 1999-00, SBS Television Researcher, Writer, Director, (Sydney) Fusions, 5-minute programs for a broadcast series on multicultural arts. ‘A Beautiful Life’, The story of an Iranian immigrant. Music video 1997 ‘Elevator’, Director, Producer, 16mm film, 4mins. Funded by N.Z. Arts Council, Pagan Records 
‘Migamarra’, Didgeridoo – Shakuhachi’, bamboo flute duet.
‘Malkosh’, Indian raga based fusion group.
‘Migration Medley’, Richard Vella the composer.
‘Rinne Satsuki’, improvising on the Koto as part of the group Warratah.