Attract::Relate::Sustain
Location | Verge Gallery | University of Sydney, City Road
VIP Vernissage | Tuesday 29 November 2011 @ 4pm
Launch | Thursday 1 December 2011 @ 6pm
Photographs by | Lightpop Photography
Stop Motion Animation by | Scixors
image courtesy of Web Directions South 2011
Corals, 2011. By Phil Gough and Adityo Pratomo, inspired by the work of Dr. Onoclov
image courtesy of Web Directions South 2011
Ambiguous, 2011. By Selhan Haksoz, Nick D'Souza, James Dumasey
image courtesy of Web Directions South 2011
City_, 2011. By Phil Gough and Jon McEwan
Recently the Design Lab students prototyped this exhibition at the Web Directions South conference at the Darling Harbour Exhibition & Convention Centre.
All images are courtesy and copyright of Web Directions 2011.
This prototype exhibition will set the scene for the Verge Gallery exhibition of the End of Year Showcase for the Design Lab at the University of Sydney. Attract::Relate::Sustain will focus on creative technologies. It's exhibition design will encourage the playful and engaging projects that often take on the form of interaction and object design resulting in artworks, physically built devices, and robots.
The preliminary exhibition theme will be interconnectivity, and the programming, coding, model-making and aesthetics that comprises contemporary interaction design. The notion of 'daisy-chains' will be at the forefront on this interconnectivity, both in the form of a large mechanical device made up of independent machines; but also as an installation technique, in terms connecting the machines representative of a research facility's theoretical output and the lecturer's who inspire and guide it (with an emphasis on the links between the students and their mentors). To support this metaphor, along with the larger device, there will be projected films, touch tables, the SmartSlab interactive works from URAP; along with historical and iterative artefacts from previous prototypes
Urban Realities & Augmented Play
Launch | Thursday 9 June 2011 @ 6-8pm | Wilkinson Building (G04), City Road | University of Sydney
Exhibition Dates | 9-16 June 2011 | 9am-6pm daily
Web Presence | Find us on FB (Urban Realities...) and Twitter (#urap)
Press Release | Available here
image courtesy of Stephanie Fynn
image courtesy of UCom Team
The School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and the Design Lab at the University of Sydney (USYD) are collaborating along the themes of augmented reality and urban playgrounds. This collaboration, managed by New Media Curation, is titled Urban Realities & Augmented Play. The project will consist of a joint exhibition, launch, and publication; all of which will serve as a public platform for emerging interaction design students. On launch night, students, industry experts and academics, and the general public converge to create an environment of creativity and experimentation.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The everyday student spaces in the Wilkinson Building will be transformed into a contemporary gallery space featuring an interactive SmartSlab, projected videos and a hall of perspex encased posters. These mixed media platforms will feature the interaction design of augmented reality across the UTS campus. From wayfinding, to interactive research tools, to large-scale broadcasting, these site specific applications were posed by course co-ordinator Ian Gwilt "to enhance the experience of staff, students and visitors to the UTS City Campus and surrounds." At UTS, technical tutor Keir Winesmith involved broadcasting mogul SBS as a community collaborator that provided industry specialists as guest speakers and examiners; where at USYD, independent curator Deborah Turnbull utilised her collaboration with Ausgrid (formerly EnergyAustralia) to inspire students on the theme of urban playgrounds. Site visits to the Grid Gallery at Erskine and Sussex Streets in the CBD, and the Silverwater Learning Centre near the Sydney Olympic Park allowed students to view systems, relationships and platforms for media art commissions, displays, and strategies; in the words of the course co-ordinators Rob Saunders and Martin Tomitsch "both sites provide new media artists with a platform in unique urban contexts."
The design concepts surrounding both of these community collaborations are the subject matter for this engaging and intriguing exhibition.