|
Screen-based Projects
|
| |
| MobiToss- MobiLenin / Jürgen Scheible (Finland) |
Big Screen: Fr. 8.45 – 9.10pm, Sat. 11.45 – 12.45am / 7.30 – 8pm, Mo. 12.15 – 1pm, Tue. 12.30 – 1.30pm, Wed. 1 - 1.30pm
Atrium: Sun. 3.30 – 4.30pm, Wed. 10 – 10.30am |
|
|
Ever want to throw something onto a wall and make it stick? With the phone application MobiToss you can literally toss a photo or video onto a public display for instant viewing and manipulation. Real-time visual effects can be applied to the media clip and controlled via hand gesture. By throwing a private recording into a public creation that bounces back as a saved personal artefact, MobiToss transforms a single recorded moment into a shared visual experience. |
| |
|
|
| SEED - Napoleon Brousseau, Gabe Sawhney, Galen Scorer, Dave Reynolds, Adam Bacsalmasi (CDN) |
Big Screen: Sat. 11.10 – 11.45am, Mon. 4.30 – 5pm, Tue. 1.30 – 2pm, Wed. 9.30 – 10am
Atrium: Sat. 10 – 11am / 5 – 5.30pm, Mon. 2 – 2.30pm, Tue. 10.30 – 11.30am, Wed. 10.30 – 11am |
 |
|
Audience members at USM08 are invited to dial a supplied phone number on their mobile phones to receive a ‘seed’ to grow on the ‘Big Screen’. Using the keypads on their cell phones, participants can grow their seeds with each punch of the keypad, choose the type of trees they want to plant, and change their texture and colour. |
| |
|
|
| Tentatively Untitled - Gabe Sawhney, Carolyn Taylor, Soomi Kwak (Canada) |
Big Screen: Special presentation by Gave Sawhney, Sun. 12:15pm – 12:30pm
Sat. 11.10 – 11.45am / 1.45 – 2.20pm, Mo. 4.30 – 5pm, Tue. 1.30 – 2pm
Atrium: Sat. 10 – 11am / 5 – 5.30pm, Mo. 2 – 2.30pm, Tue. 10.30 – 11.30am, Wed. 1 – 1.30pm
|
| Tentatively Untitled is a collaborative generative video with multichannel audio input developed by the Urban Screens Toronto 2010 Initiative as contribution to USM08. By using their cell phone, participants can call a number and speak, sing or make sounds into their phone, and watch their voice be translated into abstract, colourful visuals on screen. |
| |
|
|
| x-milieu – Monash University (Australia) |
Atrium: Fr. 6.30– 7.30pm / 8.35 – 10pm, Sat. 1 – 2.30pm / 3.30 – 4.15pm, Sun. 12.50 – 2.30pm, Mo. 3.30 – 5pm,
Tue./Wed. 4 – 5.30pm,
|
 |
|
x-milieu is an interactive installation exploring the communities that emerge in the public space of Federation Square’s Atrium via an abstract digital visualisation. The work is a real-time visualisation of an ecosystem made of digital particles. Motion sensors track the flow of people entering and exiting the space, particles are added or removed from the visualised ecosystem accordingly. Artists: Troy Innocent, Mark Guglielmetti and students Indae Hwang, Joel Collins, Vanessa Riley. |
| |
|
|
| Tetrachroma - Michael Glen (Australia) |
| Atrium: Sat. 9:00pm – 10:00pm |
 |
|
For USM08 Michael and co-performers will present an immersive live fluid environment performance piece, combining audio visual elements from multiple sources, output to the Atrium screen and wall projection. Tetrachroma includes a surreal underwater environment where fish-like organisms interact to bring about formal structures, resulting in their own extinction. This 3d animation brings the viewer inside the textures and ambience of the constructed world.
|
| |
|
|
| Public Playing/RaveSnake - Martin Fleck, Kaspar Trüstedt (Germany) |
Big Screen: Fr. 9.10 – 9.30pm, Sat. 10.50 - 11.10am / 1.15 – 1.45pm / 7 – 7.30pm, Sun. 3 – 3.20pm / 7 – 7.50pm, Mo. 5 – 5.30pm, Tue. 5.30 – 6pm, Wed. 4.30 – 5.30pm
Atrium: Sun. 11 – 11.30pm, Mo. 1 – 2pm, Tue. 1.50 – 2.30pm, Wed. 11 – 11.30am
|
 |
|
Public Playing combines mobile, online and out-of-home media for big screen interactive gaming. Ravesnake is a multiplayer game using mobile phones to navigate ‘snakes’ onscreen. People in proximity of the game area can spontaneously sign in, customise their game character and compete against up to six other players via their Bluetooth-enabled mobile. Up to 7 people can play, with players able to randomly drop in and out at any time. |
| |
|
|
| I used to believe - Sara Cole (Australia) |
Big Screen: Sun. 2.40 – 3pm, Wed. 12.30 – 1pm
Atrium: Sun. 10 – 11am, Mo. 10 – 10.30am
|
|
|
I used to believe enables USM08 visitors to share their childhood beliefs by texting messages to the big screen via Federation Square’s SMS-TV. The outcome is often a funny and bizarre collection of ideas that adults thought were true when they were children. It will remind you what it was like to be a child, fascinated and horrified by the world in equal parts. ‘I used to believe’ was created by UK-based Mat Connelley (www.Iusedtobelieve.com). |
| |
|
|
| Reflections - Morgan Barnard (New Zealand) |
Big Screen: Sat. 6.30 – 7pm, Sun. 6.30 – 7pm, Tue. 5 – 5.30pm, Wed. 1.30 – 2pm
Atrium: Sat. 4.15 – 5pm, Sun. 5.30 – 6pm, Tue. 10 – 10.30am
|
 |
|
A real-time documentary about our emotional connection to water and urban screens experience. Content including documentary-style video interviews will be collected prior to and during the exhibition for use in spontaneous and engaging presentations, that can never be performed the exact same way twice. . Additional content includes information feeds, data-mined from the internet as typography and motion graphics, and HD footage of water in various environments. |
| |
|
|
StalkShow - Karen Lancel & Hermen Maat (Netherlands)
|
Big Screen: Sat. 2.20 – 3.15pm, Sun. 4.30 – 5.30pm, Mon. 9.30 – 10.30pm, Tue. 3 – 4pm, Wed. 10 – 10.50am
Atrium: Sat. 11 – 12pm, Sun. 4.30 – 5.30pm, Mon. 10.30 – 11.30am, Tue. 12.50 – 1.50pm, Wed. 1.30 – 2.30pm
|
 |
|
StalkShow deals with feelings like the threat of insecurity and isolation in public spaces. A performer carries a backpack, containing a laptop with a touch screen. It is a wearable billboard, on which a webcam is attached. Audience members are invited to touch the screen and navigate through an archive of statements about insecurity and isolation. By doing so, they construct a personal montage of social strategies which are displayed on Fed Square’s screens along with the user’s portrait from the backpack webcam.
Stalkshow @ USM08 is supported by: 
|
| |
|
|
|
Fluid Text - Boero Imwinkelried (France)
|
Ticker Screens East Shard every day during daytime
|
|
|
Philosophy was ubiquitous in public spaces in ancient Greece, ut nowadays largely excluded. Fluid Text displays philosophical quotes from French feminist, philosopher, linguist and psychoanalytic Luce Irigaray concerning water and fluids on Federation Square’s LED ticker screens: “For there is no peril greater than the sea. Everything is constantly moving and remains eternally in flux. Hence with a thawing wind, bad fortune arrives. As well as salvation.” |
| |
|
|
Cities Tango: Berlin-Melbourne - Ernest Edmonds (Australia)
|
Main Plaza I-site: Sun - Tue. 3am - 11 am
|
|
|
Two cities, communities in Melbourne and Berlin, will interact with one another across continents and time zones. In each location the work will pick up sound from the screen location and react to it. The analysed image information will form the other cities work’s behaviour. Stripes of 'night and day colours' will be segments of images of the remote location at different times of the day mixed with real time snap shots of people at the remote site.
|
| |
|
|
| Ghost(s) - Vincent Levy |
|
|
| Blue Portrait Screen at the main entrance of the Atrium |
|
|
You see the image of the place behind you, you can slightly discover your own image, like a reflection in a mirror. Step by step, your image becomes clearer. As you move, your image starts to follow. Other people appear at your sides. You then realize that those visitors are some kind of « ghosts» haunting the place where you are standing in, ghosts that are visiting you, a living memory of the place that your presence has awaken. |
| |
|
|
| Louisiana Shakers – Jazz and videoscapes by VJ
Miss Random /
Seniors Festival Partner |
| Big Screen: Sun. 2:00pm – 2:40pm / 3:20pm – 4:00pm |
|
|
VJ Miss Random is the digital video artist, Andrea Werner who will
project her beautiful and original videoscapes onto the screen. All
enhanced by in the moment collaboration with a jazz band.
|
| |
|
|
| Aphrodite's Love TV - Rebecca McIntosh / Senios Festival Partner |
| Big Sreen: Sun. 9:30am – 10:55am / 11:35am – 11:55am |
|
|
Love TV with artist Rebecca McIntosh as Aphrodite, is an interactive talk show
that makes intimate and entertaining conversations very public. Her interviews conducted in her tiny tent will be live broadcasted onto the big screen. Share your thought about love with us!
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
Projection based Projects (after sunset)
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
MobiSpray - MobiLenin / Jürgen Scheible (Finland)
|
Big Screen: Sat. 11.45 – 12.45am, Mo. 12.15 – 1pm, Tue. 12.30 – 1.30pm, Wed. 1 - 1.30pm
Atrium: Sun. 3.30 – 4.30pm, Wed. 10 – 10.30am
East Shard Projection: every evening, 9.00 - 10.00pm
|
|
|
Ever want to repaint Federatin Square? MobiSpray allows light-based painting by using supplied mobile phones with built-in motion sensors as spray can. With only a phone can paint anywhere on anything. The spray-painting follows your hand gestures in real-time, while spraying intensity and color change via keypad. And, the freedom to intentionally change your surroundings at the scale of your choosing opens doors of creativity and imagination. Turn your reality into something new, unexpected, surprising and unpredictable.
|
| |
|
|
Falling Times - Michael Bielicky, Kamila B. Richter, Dirk Reinbold (Germany)
|
| East Shard Projection: every evening 10.00 - 11.00pm, Fr./Sat. 12.00 - 1.00am |
|
|
An online, participatory, real time, news translation machine. Falling Times are projections of icons that represent headlines and key words appearing in the news most frequently. Online participants can collectively define the meaning associated with each icon. Thus the users decide which icon represents which news and the news that are going to be searched for and displayed. This open platform permanently grows and transforms itself by learning from the collective contributions.
|
| |
|
|
CYCLONE.SOC - Gavin Baily and Tom Corby (UK)
|
| East Shard Projection: every evening 11.00 - 11.30pm, Fr./Sat. 1.00 - 1.30am |
|
|
The work presents polemical debate concerning climate change through meteorologically inspired visualizations – satellite imagery of emerging cyclonic weather conditions act as a visual and animated interface to online debates. Drawing from blogs and forums, textual sources reflect various ideas about the impact of climate change, and postulate visions of the future.
|
| |
|
|
Overflow – Shakthi Sivanathan and Aimee Falzon / Fringe Festival Partner (Aus)
|
East Shard Projection: every evening from 8.00 - 9.00pm
|
|
|
The 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival is contributing ‘Overflow’, an interactive projection and performance installation that examines how our relationship with the urban landscape might change; suggesting that Federation Square has gone underwater due to rising sea levels resulting from global warming. The work puts the audience in the shoes of those who might end up at the bottom, as well as at the top of the heap, should the more disastrous effects of global warming take place.
|
| |
|
|
text, form – Alec Lewis / Next Wave Festival Partner (Aus)
|
| East Shard Projection: every evening 11.30pm - 12.00am, Fr./Sat. 1.30 - 2.00am |
|
|
The project “text, form” explores the internet “junk space”, a term coined by the Dutch Architect Rem Koolhaas, which refers to the urban space being overwhelmed by the leftovers of modernisation. ‘text, form’ gives its public audience a deeply personal and scarily human voyeuristic experience of watching anonymous people’s actions through the Internet. Using Urban Screens, it investigates the ethical and moral issues surrounding web user database techniques employed by international companies such as Google and AOL.
|
| |
|
|
Digital Fringe Projection Walk – Digital Fringe Festival Partner (Aus)
|
| Starting at Federations Square, 8pm on Saturday 4 October |
 |
|
The Digital Fringe Festival invites visitors on a short wander through the urban environment to see some of Melbourne's best pixelists pixel in some unusual places. The Mobile Projection Unit (MPU) will light up at Federation Square at 8pm. An 8 foot striking black Londoner will keep everyone moving and a man wearing a projection screen above his head with live projections on it will wirelessly transmit video of the crowd to a projector that will hit 'helmuthead'. See digitalfringe.com.au. |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
Installation in the Atrium
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
360 Degree Pod – Mediating Architecture Design Studio, RMIT Architecture (Aus)
|
Installation in the Atrium 3-8 October
|
|
|
Delving deep into the fertile ground of discarded technologies, the 360 Degree Pod elaborates the simplicity of the camera obscura into an inhabitable architectural apparatus. Operating simultaneously as camera, projector and screen, the structure mediates the visual relationship between the inhabitant and their surrounds in an evocative textural experience.
Original concept design: Alex Mak and Jo-Han Seah. Project team: Khara Abate, Zeynep Cakir, Aphiphong Chaichavalit, Tamara Cher, Amir Hamzah, Qian Huang, Jack Meagher, Alicia Pichner, Sean Seah, Ben Stafford, Pui Han Sung, Linton Wood, and Xuan Qi Yang. Tutor: Anna Tweeddale.
|
| |
|
|
| Poster Exhibition |
|
|
Special presentations on the Atrium Screen: Sat. 12:00am-12:45am
|
|
|
A Poster Exhibition showing the latest development in the interdisciplinary field of Urban Screens, presenting speculative,ongoing researchprojects, drawing important conclusions from practical experiments. Six submissions will be additionally shown in an experimental Pecha Kucha like event on the LED Screen in the Atrium via a scheduled skype sessions. |
| |
|
|
