Whyalla Project: Spatial Cinematics and Digital Film Artefact
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The
Whyalla Project was a digital film artefact created by undergraduate students
from the School of Art, Architecture and Design and School of Communication
in collaboration with film and digital media industry
partners, including the United Film Group
and South Australian Film Corporation.
The project was led by Stephen Loo with Linda Marie
Walker, Denise Wood and Ian Hutchinson and funded by a Divisional
teaching
and learning grant. It identified
appropriate integrations and synergies between disciplinary and divisional
strands such as Architecture and Design, Multimedia, Media Production, and
Creative Communications. The site of the project was the surface of an underused piece of
land at the Whyalla campus of
UniSA.
This
artefact was inventive and experimental,
aiming to produce a new genre of film that transgressed the boundaries
of screen and projection. The artefact may be interactive, web-based,
amenable to installation practices, and/or forge new spatialities that
connect the actual-physical and virtual-electronic realms, while still
possessing a sense of the cinematic.
This digital artefact intimately belongs to the public realm. Like cinema, it inhabits the practices of everyday life, whether as equipment facilitating certain daily tasks, collating and disseminating information, or amusement that challenges the habitual constraints of public practices.
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