YEAR: 2009-10
ROLE: Artistic Director
FORMAT: Interactive installation with full body interface, digital projections, multi-touch sensitive screen surfaces, interactive 3D gaming software & new furniture forms.
WITH: Consultants Dr. Tony Fry (Professor of Design Futures) Dr. Liz Baker (DPI, Australia).

WHAT: A forthcoming interactive installation investigating the cultural dimensions of sustainability through the lens of 'time'. By recasting time as difference rather than as the mechanical abstraction that we primarily know it as, 'Finitude reflects upon the 'plastic' time that now remains for humanity.

By subtly re-imaging time as something able to be taken away or given back to the future the work exposes the dramatic implications of every 'design' choice that we make today and how its impacts must roll through to shorten or lengthen our collective futures. Like Benjamin's 'Angel of History' the storm that we have so far called progress pins us down, quite literally, as we move into the very face of the rapidly gathering storm. And so, what possibilities remain in these times of extremity?

Forthcoming: 2010

PARTNERS: The Australia Council for the Arts (InterArts), Arts Queensland, QUT Creative Industries, Mildura Regional Art Gallery and James Cook University.