‘Bystander’ – a responsive, immersive
‘spirit world’ environment for multiple users
Kate Richards, with input from Ross Gibson and Lian Loke
Sparke Media
http://www.lifeafterwartime.com/
Summary
Bystander is a multi-channel interactive video installation
by artists Kate Richards and Ross Gibson. Funded by the Australian Research
Council, it is an immersive feedback environment for exhibiting and
dramatically interacting with semiotic, emotional and aesthetic patterns
in archived environments. In this presentation artist Kate Richards
describes the background to the project and its context in the Life
After Wartime (LAW) suite. Richards will explain the creative development
and production processes, with specific focus on the protocols and pragmatics
of interdisciplinary engagement and how these evolved synergistically
across the art science collaboration. She will explain the application
of a metadesign approach to the creative development and production
of Bystander, covering the metadesign tools and techniques
used, including a software property manager; personas and scenarios,
Laban movement theory and user interaction scripts to explore audience
affect and useability; iterative single and multi-channel (distributed
rendering) prototypes, and agile programming. Richards will talk about
the creative and design development of the generative Bystander
‘world’ behaviours, rules and states, and the overall interactivity
design. The presentation will be illustrated with excerpts from Bystander
and project documentation.
Biography
Kate Richards is a Sydney-based media artist and producer working across
multimedia, interactivity, visualisation software and time-based media.
Recent multimedia art projects include the
Life After Wartime
suite with Ross Gibson (CDROMS, live performance, installation and exhibition);
sub_scape with Sarah Waterson and
Crying Man 4 with
Lyndal Jones. She has worked with multimedia in a live performance context
with
Red Iris live (with Stevie Wishart and
Life After
Wartime live with The Necks. Kate also works as a multimedia designer
and producer in the cultural sectors, creating and overseeing projects
for other artists, museums, cultural centres and architectural firms.
