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    Millie Jacobs, Sarah Natali, Hannah French and Scarlett Munday-Terry.

Comics unlock technology

The second of two comic-creating workshops leading to participants having their work featured in The Weekly Advertiser will continue at Horsham’s Jubilee Hall tonight.

The workshops, part of a Future Surface project for Horsham’s Art is… festival, involves artists creating an augmented reality comic strip based on the 2020 Art Is theme – Unexpected: a surprising disruption to the everyday and an invention of a possible future.

The first workshop, led by film maker and animator Hanna French last night, introduced participants to an Adobe Animate program.

Tonight’s workshop will involve an introduction to EyeJack Augmented Reality Software.



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Comic creations will feature in The Weekly Advertiser throughout April and May.

The second part of the Future Surface project involves the creation of distinctive pieces of street art featuring hidden animation-video-sound content unlocked through augmented reality software.

The artwork will become part of a self-guided tour throughout Horsham, where anyone can activate an animated image on their mobile phones, interacting with the artworks.

The street artworks feature two themed workshops.

A series of 10 Fantastical Futures – Technology and Inventions workshops start on March 10.

These workshop will concentrate on a question about what the future holds.

Does this future involve ‘flying cars, hover boards and immediate pizza delivery robots? Or a Wimmera River that recycles its own water?’

Workshop leaders ask participants to imagine the future, and the inventions they would like to see.

The process involves brainstorming what the future might look like, and what wild ideas and creative technologies will be solutions to everyday problems.

From the invention ideas, the workshops will go one step further and design them for all to see.

These designs will be pasted up in Horsham, to then be activated into moving animations, unlocked through the EyeJack Augmented Reality app. 

Opportunity

A second series of workshops, starting either March 11 or 12, will have the theme Future Landscapes – Creative Responses.

This theme concentrates on what people can look forward to in the future and with the challenges of climate change, what people can look forward to help to become part of  solutions.

The workshops will consider how the Wimmera will change with the effects of climate change, and what is already happening to help mitigate, slow down and adapt to these changes.

Again, after brainstorming, participants will create images and subsequent animations to show these adaptations – ‘from new types of crops to new types of homes’.

These designs will also be pasted up in Horsham and the animations unlocked through the EyeJack Augmented Reality app. 

Art is… festival manager Sarah Natali said the project represented an exciting exploration into a new world of art and animation.

“It shows where art and technology meet and provides a wonderful medium to continue the art tradition of capturing mood, while highlighting issues that confront young people of today,” she said.

Ms Natali said people keen to get involved or who wanted more information about the program could visit website www.artiswimmera.com.

The entire February 26, 2020 edition of The Weekly Advertiser is available online. READ IT HERE!

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