Evolution of Space
Skills and Interests
Film & Video, Interactive Media, Music & Audio, Visual Arts & Photography,
Location
Melbourne
A bit about me…
A polaroid, a dangling shoe & a bear's head
Have you ever been to a haunted house? How did you know it was haunted? Was it something someone said? Did the floorboards really creak? Or was it just your imagination?
Certain places inspire certain stories which are seemingly unrelated to the space but which still feel intrinsically linked to that time and space. As people, we are linked to spaces not by logic but by the unconscious indicators within such spaces. We are unable to separate the signifier from the signified and as a result our tendency is to create our own stories based on our individual perceptions.
‘A Polaroid, a dangling shoe & a bear’s head’ is an experimental media object designed to explore the evolution and mutation of our relationships to a space, which in this case is the soon-to-be developed former Carlton Brewery (Corner of Bouverie St and Victoria St, Melbourne). By using objects found in the space to inspire fictional narratives the media object aims to transport the user to the space and emphasize the imaginary world which exists around spaces and which is created solely by the human perspective.
The Polaroid photo, the shoe caught in a barbed wire fence and the severed head of a teddy bear were all genuinely found in the space and have inspired the fictional narratives through the relationships between them and the space, which have been conceived by the production team.
Credits
Created by;
Z. J. Wong
Andy D. Smith
Emma Jo Davies
Personal website
[ http://raws.adc.rmit.edu.au/~s3162172/ezediaproj/proj.mov ]Groups
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