Hi All. Lachlan from the southern tip of the country checking in…

The Wii experiments that I tipped off a few months ago have come into reality over the last few days in the form of a touring interactive event for Adelaide’s Feast Festival and in collaboration with the lovely illustrator: Jo Kerlogue. The projects basically turned into a non-laser Wii solution to Laser Tag - effectively liberating the restrictions placed on Lasers and thus Laser Tag in our Laser impoverished country.

What’s more - with the Wii you have buttons!!!!! Which brings me to the coolest element of it - the creation of massive digital puppets that crawl across the wall under your control (seen above in Kevin’s territory marking ritual). You can not only move and manipulate them - but also change their appearance in a plethora of different permeations to create weird and wacky characters.

But enough talk! Let’s see it in action! Well I’m still kind of in the heat of it all at the moment - there’s another event tonight in Unley followed by another next Thursday. And I’ll be putting video up asap… but for the moment - here’s a flyer and a couple of images from a under developed version at the FEAST Festival Opening (images thanks to Heath Britton and support thanks to Carclew, Adelaide City Council, Unley City Council and Mt. Barker City Council):

Happy attractive people…

Pamela just got BIGGER!

Jerrem here again reporting from WA,

Ive just returned from a video art residency on Christmas Island, Its a tiny Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. Check out some of the digital graffiti the locals and I got upto….

virtual crabs projected onto the beach… (dont tell me my projector doesnt live a fun and salty life)

Digital Graf on Christmas Island
in this video: writing on the phosphate mines silos, and reanimating the Jetty.

more christmas Island stuff here

I kinda lucked out and had a vacancy for a month in the PINE ST gallery as melb stencil fest dropped out. So i scrambled together my pre-existent branding from 3 years of street art/diy fests in Adelaide (st5k). As we were making events we wanted something a bit edgy and to spread some of the GRL ethos. I have been quiet on this event as i spent 3 weeks moving syd council logos about on our media and the graff word is forbidden on council docs. GRL was my backdoor way around this. Any way besides showing off throwies, videos, and slides in our gallery - i have got Mickie Quick - one of Australia’s finest culture jammers (see his refugee islands). Also an inspiration to his and my own practice will hopefully be some of the guys from B.U.G.A.U.P. (Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions) - our own aussie national culture hackers founded in the late 70s.

We have a month of events also but you can find that elsewhere
Here’s the poster anyhow:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/konsumterra/2858792282/

heres a pic of Mickey Quick’s famous baby:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/konsumterra/1879756073/in/set-72157602945073407

he will possibly appear on a channel 10 guerilla urban re-decoration reality show???!!!

On my more recent flickr posts include opening fest night, recent melbourne trip and Paste Modern - a multi-story building paste up event of whos who in syd street art.

all da best - ct

Good evening comrades. Adelaide’s Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart here bursting his GRL blog cherry.

GRL Australia!!! Where’s the content??? What’s happening???? ___ This drastic situation has pushed me far past the bounds of normality into the field of productivity. So far into this unknown territory that I recently found myself dabbling in some digital distractions in collaboration with the lovely Danica Wells-Heitmann in Adelaide’s city centre…

Check it:

Great stuff Jereme and Curious. Interestingly the tech wonders of the Wiimote is also my next project at hand. Looking to create some massive interactive digital puppets for Adelaide’s Feast Festival that can be both created by the gen public and manipulated to play games etc… Will definitely post it when it happens. Keep up the lovely work all. Let’s see some more…!

Hi All,

Jerrem here reporting from WestAus. Big Cheers to Shakthi and the Sydney crew for getting the site sorted!
great to hear you guys are also onto the enormous potential of the Wiimote! I’ve been working on getting it to work on the largest scale possible. Will post some pics of some of my diy infrared “brushes” soon.

In the meantime check out some of the Vids of our street projection nights in and around Perth. Been using a tablet PC, wii remote - infrared and GRL NY’s LaserTag.

above: Street Projecting (laser, infrared and tablet) - Northbridge, WA

above: Digital Car Respray -Mt Lawely, WA

above: virtual fridge magnets - West Perth, WA

for more info check out www.jerrem.com/notes
more info on here as things they happen

Warning! This video is rather dry - it’s a how-to. It explains how to turn any surface of your environment into an interactive space.

In April this year CuriousWorks spent an intensely productive three weeks as in-residence artists at Casula Powerhouse. This was the setting for our first-ever Kinect lab. Kinect is a place for us to research and develop creative uses of everyday objects and technologies - and the following video explains how to do just that.

Shout out to Johnny Lee for coming up with the brilliant wiimote whiteboard software.

Watch the video in full HD glory on Vimeo.

What’ s up from CuriousWorks HQ - the blog is finally up yo! Feel free to change or modify as you wish, oh many admin users. And invite other like-minded souls!