14/12/2024
A lot has happened since the middle of this year that we haven’t posted about!
In June we went to ISEA2024 Meanjin and gave a talk, presented a workshop and showed Night Creatures ! We were able to adapt the original AR work as an interactive animation on a massive touchscreen and see all 8 of our characters at once, life size! We also ran our Memory Postcard workshop and presented “Recreating Memory in Miniature” about the creative process we’ve developed for these workshops.
We had our first peer-reviewed article published! Co-written alongside our Frame Documentary Lab contemporaries Ben Joseph Andrews and Emma Roberts, Ana Tiquia and Reanna Browne and led by Katy Morrison, “Describing, knotting, tying: developing emerging media documentary in a creative accelerator context” is published in Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2024.2367249
Finally, we have massive and very exciting news - we have secured funding from Screen Australia and VicScreen to make The World Came Flooding In, an XR creative documentary about floods, memory and what remains after everything has been washed away. The work is produced by our dear collaborator Pip Campey at Filmcamp, EP is Ben Joseph Andrews, developers are Steve Hadley with Julie Zenou, sound design by Mark Mitchell and Byron Scullin at Fuligin Sound, and music by Biddy Connor. We have started production and planning to premiere the work as a VR installation in the second half of 2025.
Thank you to all the people who have worked with us, supported us and attended our workshops this year. We couldn’t have done it without you.
Images
1- 3. Night Creatures installation at The Cube, QUT Garden Point, Meanjin.
4. Sign for out workshop at ISEA2024.
5. Furniture made in an earlier Memory Postcard workshop.
6. Online version of the article published in Continuum.
7-8. Stills from The World Came Flooding In.
