Artists use the medium of digital art to open up real and imagined spaces where the social, political and the personal can be explored. 11 poets will exhibit their wears along King Street, Newtown. People with smartphones will be able to download a free app that will allow them to point their phone cameras at images and hear the poems.
How Does It Work?
The 11 images of poets you see above were all extracted from videos of them performing their pieces in locations around King St. These have been printed on postcards and loaded into an image recogniton phone app called junaio which will play an audio recording of the performance when it “recognises” the poet’s image.
To make this happen, you need to:
1. Download the junaio app on to your phone. It’s currently only available on iPhones or Androids smartphones. (For those without one of these phones, a collection of mp3s with directions is available on our Audiowalk page.)
2. Go to one of the locations where postcards of the performances can be found. A full list of these can be found on our Map page. There is also a PDF of the map and location details that you can download and print out to guide you on your explorations.
3. Follow the instructions on the back of the postcard and listen…
If you can’t find a postcard, don’t worry. In the very near future, we will be posting downloadable PDFs of all 11 on The Cards page.
Credits
This project was the brainchild of Angela Stretch; techy phone stuff, website and tracking image design were done by Warren Armstrong; the performances were recorded by Ken Simpson; the videos were edited by Madeleine Allen; and the printing of the magic postcards was coordinated by Evan Shapiro.
City Wears 11 is being presented as part of the Sydney Fringe and has been made possible by the financial support of Marrickville Council.
