One of the challenges of the Atelier Edens Wilderness Lab was to power all the electronic equipment using only the Creative Environment Enterprises solar powered generator for the community filming day from 9.00am until 12.00pm that evening. One laptop was primarily used to set up a WI FI system around the Quarantine station and for [...]
The walking and biking trails of Point Nepean National Park are dotted with stunning vistas, military bunkers, grasslands, beaches, rockly alcoves, and historical curiosities. As part of the Wilderness Lab creative development, the artists sought to map out the ultimate walking trail to encourage visitors’ exploration of the Point Nepean National Park’s unique features and [...]
Easy Rider, BMX Bandits, and Akira. Boys on bikes. Freedom. Epic landscapes, and leatherware in acid hues. Live streaming while in motion across the dusty roads of the Nevada Desert, through Australia’s suburban streets, or at the helm of Kawasaki Ninja through the neon-lit streets of Neo-Tokyo, is becoming a tangible reality. As part of [...]
Introducing the artists and technical team behind the Atelier Edens Wilderness Lab residency at Point Nepean National Park. It’s an all-star cast of artistic prowess and technical freaks. There are: media artists, digital artists, technologists, animateurs, technoturges, streaming technicians, composers and sound artists. Stay tuned to see what happens when so many creative brains combine! [...]
Over the past week, the artists have been absorbing, collecting, testing, storyboarding, collaborating and collating a vast array of media to develop an interactive artwork to be viewed through an iPhone app at the Wilderness Lab at Point Nepean National Park in 2012. The creative juices certainly have been flowing and channelled from this landscape [...]
Josh Gardiner is the Communications Wizard here at the ATELIER EDENS Wilderness Lab at Point Nepean National Park. He’s the go to guy for technical troubleshooting and live broadcasting from the Wilderness Lab residency. Josh spent the first couple of days building a complex Internet system composed of one industrial modem, 1 Wi-Fi router [...]
October 18 was Atelier Edens Wilderness Lab Day in the Park for artists Willoh S. Weiland, Thea Baumann, Matt Gingold, Josh Gardiner and Elizabeth Dunn. This was a first date with the site for some of us. In romantic first-date style some versions of teenage poetic responses flowed forth. Which we love. Dear Josh, Did [...]
LET’S GET PHYSICAL – OBSERVING AND LEARNING THE ART OF MOTION AND MOBILITY FROM GREY NOMADS, BIKE BOYS, AND JAPANESE TOURISTS How do differing community groups engage and explore Point Nepean National Park ? And how can the creation of an app engage and connect divergent inter-generational and multi-cultural community groups in a mixed reality [...]
Making mobility sustainable. Atelier Edens will design and test systems for sustainably engaging in arts research, production and presentation. This process will be informed by a collection of existing mobile models, some of which are listed below, that constitute the social and artistic context the project occurs in. These projects vary in their intended outcomes, [...]
Matthew Gingold is a self-described Technoturge. He applies his technological expertise in creative frameworks addressing conceptual, aesthetic, cultural and tech concerns… Dear Matt, How do you view the term ‘sustainable’ in relation to the networked culture AE is operating within? Dear LED, As a media artist I am constantly working with technology, from the humble [...]