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 embodied 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 also better celebrate and care for that which we share in common: the cultural and biophysical environments that fundamentally sustain all life today. This critical shift in thinking and action requires us each to envision new ways to re-orientate our everyday life choices in ways that better respect that which is shared by all: 'The Commons'. The work therefore asks what kind of resources and knowledge might be necessary to move us past simply knowing what needs to be changed to instead actually embodying that change. It further suggests this idea by focusing on the power of embodied learning implied by the works' strongly physical interface (i.e. the spinning of a full size table) alongside the complex field of layered imagery appearing upon that table top which hints at other deeply relational ways of understanding and knowing the world.

SHOWING HISTORY:
2: 'Beyond Mediations', Mediations Biennial of Modern Art, Zamek Centre For Art and Culture, 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).

Mediations Biennial of Modern Art Website
Download Poznan Biennial 2010 Press Release
Download Copy of 2009 Show catalogue,  (including essay by Pat Hoffie).
Read Review in Realtime 90.
Poster Presentation, Subtle Technologies 2010, Canada.
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