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**Apologies for Cross Postings, please circulate to your lists** Now on at Beta_Space: |GEO|Landscapes 0.1 Artist: Chris Bowman Technologists: Shigeki Amitani and Alastair Weakley Exhibition dates: 27 April – 30 May 2007 Open 10am – 5pm daily Free with entry to the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney |GEO| Landscape.01 is an interactive artwork-in-progress that will transport you to Sydney’s newest architectural attraction. The Brickpit Ring Walk - an elevated circular walkway at Sydney Olympic Park - is a viewing platform set inside the old brickpit at Homebush Bay. Visitors to the ‘Ring’ have recorded their impressions of this historical, ecological and architecturally significant site. Through the mediums of text, sound, photography, video and GPS (Global Positioning System) co-ordinates, |GEO|Landscape.01 explores time and space as trace experiences combined to create a layered virtual environment. This early prototype explores how video sequences, selected narratives and site-specific information can be captured across two or more locations, then reconstructed by groups or individuals to create personal or collective narratives. Utilizing two interfaces designed as virtual programs, |GEO| seeks to enable visitors to control their own virtual journey around the Brickpit Ring Walk. Central to the visitor’s experience is the ability to navigate the Ring, exploring the dialogue between representation and abstraction. --- Beta_Space: Art – technology - experiment - discovery Beta_space is Sydney’s only dedicated venue for interactive art, a unique venue where artists can show the public “first drafts” of interactive artworks. Beta_space is an experimental environment where the public can engage with the latest research in art and new technology A “beta version” is a new piece of software or hardware that needs testing and feedback from its users to help its creators make it better. Beta_space is a public laboratory for beta testing interactive artworks. It is a collaboration between The Powerhouse Museum and Creativity and Cognition Studios (CCS) at the University of Technology, Sydney, a cutting edge research group which is home to many artists creating exciting interactive artwork. CCS thanks the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) for their support. www.betaspace.net.au www.creatitivyandcognition.com http://www.acid.net.au/ The full press pack is available at: http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~deboraht/GEO_Press_Pack/ Accompanying Images are available at: http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~deboraht/GEO_Press_Images/ --- If you would like to receive emails and newsletters on Beta_space activities, please subscribe to our list at www. betaspace.net.au --- Curator, Deborah Turnbull ---