Public Sculpture Commission - UAP & Ausgrid

Photo by A. Dulyan & Leo Burnett Advertising

A previous promotional image for Grid Gallery

The Mother of all Invention, by Chris Fox & Dillon McEwan

Previous public sculpture commission for Ausgrid by NMC

Urban Art Projects, Brisbane, and Ausgrid have contracted New Media Curation to curate a commission for public sculpture at their Erskine and Sussex Streets City North Substation. Previously the home of Grid Gallery, the space is now undergoing development to enliven and enrich this busy city thoroughfare.

There are 3 phases of this process: 1] an invited longlist of interactive artists as selected by NMC; 2] a shortlist chosen by Ausgrid and UAP for ideation; 3] a final artist is chosen to realise their design.

Watch this space for further development on this exciting project!

Tutoring Contracts

Photo by A. Dulyan

Launching the URAP exhibition in July 2011

Deborah has been invited to teach in two different Universities this semester: 1] UTS - Data Visualisation & Sonification with Jon Drummond, George Khut, and Viveka Weiley; 2] Design Lab @ USYD - Cyber Studio with Lian Loke and Rob Saunders.

Stay tuned for exhibition updates!

Attract::Relate::Sustain

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