Upcoming events, workshops, and conferences, as well as archived happenings.
Love Creatures Workshop In the finest of Art/Craft tradition Kim leads us on a messy construction process that will end up in wearable AR appendages so the ADA Symposia Love Creatures can be released to the streets of Auckland. The workshop will provide the markers and some quirky materials to add your outfit, as well […]
Make The Park (2014) http://www.makethepark.info/ In 2012 we began working on an idea for a temporary public artwork that would allow us to question the distinctions of public versus private space. Over the years, the project has shifted and has become concerned with how a public sculpture can move beyond being an illustration of environmental issues – […]
Place ‘Place’ is an ongoing, transdisciplinary engagement utilising geo-reality mobile software in suburban South Auckland. Place brings together tangata-whenua, scientists, local historians, hobbyists and local residents to reveal, collaborate with, support and celebrate the spirit of place in Papakura, Tamaki Makaurau. Beginning in 2013 with a simultaneous Matariki exhibition on-site (using geo-reality tools and the […]
Birgit Bachler shows us creative ways with the Big Data Bastestunde Birgit Bachler, who created the wildly popular Di4l09 network for the 2013 ADA Symposium in Dunedin, brings her code crafting skills to Auckland to share an aspect of her recent exhibition Copy Wildly. Big Data Bastelstunde (“Big Data Craft Hour”) is a one hour workshop exploring […]
Moodbank & Imperial Moods City spaces have often been thought about in terms of the functional flows of people and things: the money that is exchanged, the congestion of rush hour, the accumulation of rubbish and the cold face of professionalism. More recently businesses and governments have come to see the value in finding out […]
Tiki in Architecture Judith Robinson is a conjoint lecturer in design at the University of Newcastle (Australia) and is currently a M Phil (Architecture) research student. Remnant architectural and other features of Tiki made before the 1820 iconoclasm tell of Tikis’ former function: there were six broadly prevailing architectural contexts for Tiki across Pacific Oceania […]