Overview
Project status: In progress
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Innovation via new combinations of form and experience.
- Grantor
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- Arts Queensland
- State Library Qld + Queensland Artworkers Alliance
- Australia Council Inter Arts
- Australia Council Music
- QUT Creative Industries
- Elektra Festival, Montreal
- Australia Council Visual Arts (in progress)
- Research leader
- Organisational unit
- Lead unit Creative Industries Faculty
- Start date
- 1st January 2009
- End date
- 1st January 2010
- Research area
- Innovation in the performing and digital arts
Dr Keith ArmstrongDetails
This project is the second stage development of a tabletop-interactive artwork for one or more participants that allow them to manipulate real time sound and image in a kinesthetic environment of rich complexity.
Set within the context of Tony Fry's notion of "the Sustainment', the work seeks to expose a profound schism between today's phenomenal increase in human-knowledge databasing and a comparative scarcity of opportunities to fundamentally 'learn' and embody that which we urgently need to 'know' about.
Project description
Following the three-month successful showing of Stage One at State Library of Queensland - Stage Two fine-tunes the design to clarify two conceptual linkages determined as lacking during participant interviews.
This stage includes all preparation for the work's major International premiere. Knowmore consists of a circular, 1.5m diameter that spins on a smooth, central bearing like a lazy susan and is easily hand manipulated. A computer-controlled video down projection falls directly onto it, 'skinning' it in real time in response to sensed rotational speed and modalities, creating an uncanny blend of physical object and virtual media. Touch sensors mapped onto the surface of the table add a further level of responsiveness to the work and a six-speaker array surrounding the table creates a rich spatial environment of aural and bodily-resonant sound.
Partnerships
- Chris Barker (RMIT)
- Elektra Festival, Montreal Canada
