Choric Encounters: Performing the City How might listening prosthetically become a politic for connectivity? This panel explores the poetics of respons(ability) through work that performs the city through headphonic-led urban encounters. Becca Wood, Carol Brown and Russell Scoones discuss a series of Auckland based headphonic test-events arising from their individual performance research that explores the […]
Urban landscapes in 3D: spectacular and realist views Stereoscopic (3D) images have long been discussed in terms of whether they offer greater realism or spectacular displays. Their depictions of urban landscapes interact with these overlapping and, at times, contradictory paradigms. For example, nineteenth century stereoscopic photography was sold to consumers as a gateway to the […]
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 […]