Check on a MOBILE JOURNEY by my favourite new media artist
Megan Heyward:: TRACES
http://www.dlux.org.au/mobilejourneys/meganhayward.html
films....[yum] LUNA: tatiana & BRIDGE: gary
"traces is a locative media work delivered on mobile phone, exploring the
relationships of people, memory and place. In it, the environments we move
through – the streets, buildings; the parks and bridges and alleyways of
Sydney’s CBD – reveal themselves as sites rich with meaning, traced over
with both personal and shared narrative."
Strange Cities
www.strangecities.net
TATJANA.........
- Strange Cites
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Tatiana's recent work BLACKBOX http://www.strangecities.net has been exhibited internationally at conferences and film and media festivals in countries including the US, France, Italy, Greece, Australia, Thailand and Japan. Her creative research explores the intersection of digital film, interactive multimedia, digital sound and new forms of story-telling, and she has taught across a range of disciplines at various institutions. Tatiana's recent research has been published in New Talents: Backburning: Journal of Australian Studies and a collaboration with radio producer Eurydice Aroney "A Heart Ripped Open" was commissioned by Radio Eye & represented the ABC in the Prix Italia 2004. She produced the multimedia design for Menorah of Fang Bang Lu:: an online documentary project on Shanghai with Professor Andrew Jakubowicz. She collaborated with filmmaker Geoffrey Weary on Scenes From A Shanghai Hotel (2007) and Strange Cities (2000) which was produced in association with the Australian Film Commission and for which she was the recipient of an AIMIA and ATOM Award.
3 comments:
TRACES is a moving & poetic mobile/web work by Megan...she interviewed me about one of my most poignant childhood memories...visiting LUNA PARK:: Sydney with my mother...in the five part mobile vignette LUNA documents a girl [grace] @ the fun park & my voice recalls the feelings:: smells & emotions of being a little girl experiencing this for the first time. tatjana x
I was also moved by BRIDGE, a story Megan created about Gary's experience of love on the Sydney Harbour Bridge....with his male lover...I love Megan's electronic collages particularly her major interactive book Of Day, Of Night (2000) produced through the interactive media funs @ the AFC. I feel as though Megan created that work for me...it traces the journey of a 35 year old woman Sophie through Rozelle junk market, cafe's, riverside...she has lost the ability to dream...and by collecting objects, writing their fictional histories, we gain access to an archive of dream/memories. A real gem! tatjana
It's very strange that you should have posted this today, as i have just received a wonderful message from Paris about "Traces". It is being shown at the Pocket Film festival this June at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and I have had to provide transciptions of the various voiceovers to be translated into French. i was going to send an email out to all of the people who donated their stories, in the next couple of days, to share this lovely comment from the curator, Yves Gaillard.
The curator said:- "I truly appreciate the link you create, Megan, between the mobile phone, which is itself an object full of memory and rememberings, and memories from people who offer a fragment of their life, like jewels, to an unknown audience. It is beautiful. "
So all those beautiful little stories, including yours, Tati, will be seen in Paris. How bizarre!!
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