Art Thinking and Ars Electronica bring a creative community catalyst to Brisbane’s new Art & Technology Festival
Shadowgram at Curiocity, Brisbane
Art Thinking (trading as Ars Electronica Australia) partnered with Tourism Events Queensland and State Library of Queensland to bring a world-class public installation to Brisbane as part of the inaugural Curiocity Festival. Shadowgram is a public participatory project that combines aesthetic entertainment; the creating of a physical artefact, a sticker cut out in the shape of your shadow, with the intention of participating in social brainstorming. Due to its location outside the library, the central theme was framed around the future of knowledge. In the 3 weeks the program was running, 1000’s of citizens participated and shared their collaborative vision of the future. Ars Electronica Futurelab developed Shadowgram to create a ‘creative catalyst’, a system that enables the audience to discover, play with, and use their creativity. This extension of the FabLab concept to the next stage of interactive fabrication is an important part of technical and conceptual research, one that has the potential to yield highly entertaining works.
Curiocity Brisbane, Shadowgram at the State Library of QLD. Image: Art Thinking Australia
Image: Ars Electronica
Image: Ars Electronica
Image: Ars Electronica
Image: Ars Electronica
Image: Ars Electronica
Image: Ars Electronica
Image: Ars Electronica
Image: Ars Electronica