The Art of Prototyping – ABOUT
The Art of Prototyping
a 1-day intensive program on digital art making
Courtesy of Beta_space | The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
500 Harris Street | Ultimo NSW 2007
Contact | Deborah Turnbull | deborah@newmediacuration.com | 0400 920 761
The Australia Council, New Media Curation and the Powerhouse Museum invite you to participate in a day of discussion and workshops examining how artists, organisations and audiences work with prototypes in media arts and digital culture. This program will augment the exhibition currently residing in the Australia Council foyer, genart_sys | a window on digital culture, 29 January - 16 March 2011.
Under the banner of the UTS Research Group, Creativity and Cognition Studios, the Beta_space Gallery has evaluated the audience's role in interactive art making for the last 6 years. This has been done within the Powerhouse, a museum context famous for the celebration of design and the act of making, within an exhibition that celebrates digital artefacts. Some 30 case studies and 20 publications remain as evidence of model of practice-based research. With this event, we aim to draw out some of the innovation, practices, challenges and collaboration involved in the prototyping process that are relevant to all digital art-makers. How do we capture what a knowing/unknowing audience can provide for us in terms of feedback? How can we harness this dialogue and participation as a force for change and growth within our work?
What we would like to accomplish over the course of this day, is to show that there is an art to prototyping, that it's not just a process.
Some of the more artistic themes involved in prototyping these include developing technological platforms for ideas such as embodiment, immersion, elegance, invisibility, nuance, dramaturgy, engagement, learning, and there are many more. There are also more practical queries of how can I plan and market a successful prototype? How do I learn coding and work across platforms myself? How could we align ourselves for what may be in store for digital culture in the future, across Australia and internationally?includes a tricky nuance to capture, a deft skill to adapt and offers extraordinary potential.
RSVP for Presentation and Workshop Attendance HERE.
Program Available for Download HERE.