Roosting Interactive Installation
Roosting
Exhibition by Kim Newall
Exhibiting from Tuesday 7th June – Sunday 3rd July 2011
Kim Newall is a multimedia artist living and working in Auckland. He uses traditional and new media. He is interested in building a conversation between these two modes of artistic expression. His process is a flow from the hand drawn or painterly into the digital and back again. Through this process the boundaries of digital and hand drawn become obscured and both media are reinvented.
Creatures have evolved from the processes that exist in different media, including drawing, animation, interactive video and robots. The creatures are a hybrid of real and virtual and they are beginning to develop their own independence and their own identity.
“Roosting” is the evolution of “Urban Life” where two birds perched on the back of the old Odeon Cinema on Lorne Street in 2008. This interactive installation enabled the birds to respond to passers-by and these birds gave birth to baby birds.
In “Roosting” the birds have now come to occupy the real space of the Aotea Centre. They are aware of their physical environment and they respond accordingly. Watch out they could inhabit a space near you.
Kim is a lecturer on the Bachelor of Creative Technologies programme, and the coordinator of CoLab’s Interactive Suite at AUT University.
PARTNERS
CoLab (AUT University’s creative technologies research centre) and THE EDGE (Auckland’s centre for national and international performing arts and entertainment) are working collaboratively to present Digital Art Live, an exciting new initiative to showcase digital and interactive visual art in an interactive space.
Digital Art Live
Owens Foyer, Aotea Centre, THE EDGE
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It supports the development and public dissemination of hybrid ideas, research and creative practices through converging technologies, innovative formats, modes and networks. In so doing, it forms a community of enquiry and a physical meeting-ground for creative expression, new media industries and trans-disciplinary educators.
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