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7stories: new locative literature project by Matt Blackwood
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7Stories is my new Locative Literature project set along Melbourne’s Swanston Street and the Bourke St Mall using the beautifully crafted QR code designs by Csilla Csongvay. So if you’re up for listening to the stories of homeless guitarists, wannabe skaters and Romanian refugees in the places where these stories are set, then grab a [...]
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Flying Garden art by Lloyd Godman
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s both! Lloyd Godman and his marvellous flying gardens are going to be suspended across the Northbank skyline of Melbourne for an entire year. Lloyd has been developing artistic uses for gardens that don’t need much rain, any soil, and can withstand extreme climatic conditions – [...]
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Delicate Pin Prick art by miso
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Miso is a Melbourne based artist whose beautifully crafted pieces have an intricate balance of vulnerability with the tactile nature of a Flake chocolate bar. For her series New York Moon, she looks into the futurepast, and maps the New York city grid over the valleys and craters of that great big ball in the sky. [...]
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Green Collect: Amazing Recycled art
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Ever wondered what happened to that bundle of Leisure Suit Larry floppies? In between supplying me with thousands of keyboard keys to make 1Story, Green Collect gives employment opportunities to marginalised members of the community, so that they can make awesome things from the Amstrad PC1512 that’s lying in your garage!
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1Story: a locative literature project by Melbourne’s Matt Blackwood
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I’ve been interested (some would say obsessed) in Locative Literature for a while now. Experiencing a story in the location where the story is set gives audiences that extra layer of immersion. So what could be better than combining this form of literature into a giant QR code made from recycled keyboard keys, and then [...]
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DJ Nu-Mark: Toy Set
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Forget white labelling, this is one DJ who isn’t afraid to break down the breakdown. DJ Numark understands the need for audiences to get behind the music and see how the sounds are constructed. He takes musical risks and they pay off big time. Now show some respect to the Monkey!
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Art made from maps by Matthew Cusick
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This man does things with maps that makes my brain explode. In other words, if you ever get creatively lost, then Matthew Cusick has the kind of maps I need.
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Game Masters: an ACMI exhibition in Melbourne
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Game Masters is an ACMI exhibition where I’ll actually get the chance to corner the developers from Blizzard, to raise my RSI ravaged right hand, and to say: ‘Look what your StarCraft has done to meeeeeeeee!’
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StoryCodes: a locative literature project by Matt Blackwood
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First there were QR codes. Now there’s StoryCodes. Either way, I’m a sucker for Locative Literature. And there are plenty of ways to experience stories in the places where these stories are set. May I present 2Stories, my latest LocLit creation.
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Vertical Forest
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I’m not sure what falling branches from the 90th floor is going to do for pedestrians below, but who needs vertical gardens when you can have a vertical forest!
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GPS drawings
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Human behaviour linked to places is what fascinates me as a writer. Its patterns, impact and influence, all combine to create tangible location-based experiences. And these days, wherever you go, there you and your smartphone are, and thus, the joys of GPS art.
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Melbourne-based producer Galapagoose
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In the life where I can afford to keep my SL1200s instead of selling them to my brother to pay for root canals, this is the kind of music I would make.
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6Stories: locative literature by Matt Blackwood
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You’re sitting opposite the greatest pair of breasts beyond the bevel, another woman of an ex that you’re almost over, and a third woman who wants to name her daughter Younique. It’s speed dating Locative Literature style. It’s 6Stories by Matt Blackwood.
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The Big Issue Street Football Festival
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This short clip really is proof of how big issues can become little issues after kicking a football around for a while.
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Locative Literature: experiencing stories in situ
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Locative Literature (LocLit) is on the boil and Broadcastr is proof of that. LocLit is essentially a story experienced in the place where the story is set. The joy of this storytelling form is the heightened engagement that people have with the space when experiencing the stories in situ. It’s also pretty good experiencing it via [...]
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 is on the boil and Broadcastr is proof of that. LocLit is essentially a story experienced in the place where the story is set. The joy of this storytelling form is the heightened engagement that people have with the space when experiencing the stories in situ. It’s also pretty good experiencing it via [...]){kind=link}