As funded by UTS and lead by Matthew Austin, we performed research with a group of first year architecture students investigating the value of VR as a tool for decoding architectural drawings. Conducted during first trimester 2017 in UTS DAB.
Methods to accurately capture 3D space are time intensive and often require bespoke equipment. I've investigated a method of capturing the impression of a place rather than the precise outcomes only laser scanning can provide.
There are certain aspects that art preservation programs seem to entirely miss when making the switch to digital. The question remains what aspects are they missing?
Produced as part of a collaboration with Daniel Connell. They began as pair of marble sculptures, greek era, lifted from their homes in museum collections and conversational archives through their 3D scanned surrogates. Now placed in a foreign land, the arid climates of the Nevada desert, Atlantis was found, but the tangibility of its artifacts was eroded.
Though AIATSIS is not a single 'place', as an organisation it provides a decentralised resource that exposes knowledge may have otherwise been unseen.
The headland redevelopment itself is a significant change to the site; Though it is by no means a reinstatement of what had been their, being mostly a concrete shell concealing the 'cutaway' and a carpark, it is an acknowledgement of the countries character previous to colonialisation.
I did not properly acknowledge the land, and in honesty its beauty and history, until my adulthood. Looking back, the built forms, the spaces between coasts and the remaining national park jammed between quarantine and defunct military instillation are of little importance.
In this review, we look to Lucie Rie, an Austrian-born British potter well known for her glaze treatments and Sgraffito ornamentation. In this issue, we have a simple thrown vessel with hand built grip reminiscent of a Turkish coffee pot.