YEAR: 2009 (v1) - 2010 (v2)
ROLE: Co-Directed With Chris Barker
FORMAT: Interactive Installation With Projections & Furniture
WITH: Darren Pack (Quest 3D programmer) Luke Lickfold (Interactive Sound Design) and Stuart Lawson (Designer). Quotes by Tony Fry, Table design Fred Howie, Howie Engineering.

WHAT: An interactive installation investigating the cultural dimensions of sustainability.

A large circular table spun by hand and a computer-controlled video projection falls on its top, creating an uncanny blend of physical object and virtual media. Participants’ presence around the table and how they touch it is registered, allowing up to five people to collaboratively ‘play’ this deeply immersive audiovisual work.

KEY CONCEPTS: In an age that has come to celebrate cultural difference KnowMore (House of Commons) considers the urgent need for us to celebrate what we have in common - the needs of all that fundamentally sustain us. This requires us each to envision new ways that connect our everyday life choices with a duty of care over that which is shared by all: The Commons. Within this context the work seeks to interrogate our impulses to initiate research and asks what kind of resources and knowledge will then help us learn that which we will need. It does this by considering the journey from information access via embodied learning towards common empowerment and ultimately action.

SHOWING HISTORY:
2: Forthcoming Showing - Mediations Biennial of Modern Art, Poznan, Poland, September 10 - October 30, 2010, curated by Ryszard W. Kluszczynski.

1: Infozone New Media Residency and Exhibition Project, 21 Feb-24th May, 2009, Infozone Artspace, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Curated by Queensland Artworkers Alliance.

PARTNERS: The work was conceived and produced as a  collaboration between artists Dr Chris Barker and Dr Keith Armstrong.  Institutional and industry partners were the State Library of Queensland, Queensland Artworkers Alliance, The Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Queensland, QUT Creative Industries, RMIT Centre for Animation and Interactive Media and E2E Visuals (Suppliers of Quest 3d Software).

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Poster Presentation, Subtle Technologies 2010, Canada.
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