Float : an investigation into the new media history of panorama in Australia
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- Thesis
- Issue Date:
- 2008
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NO FULL TEXT AVAILABLE. Access is restricted indefinitely. ----- This document is the written component that accompanies the creative
artwork Float: an on line panoramic play of sustainability, virtual: space and
real place. Together, they compose the assessment material for my Masters
of Creative Arts (MCA) by Research.
This MCA has investigated' Australian land art and panoramic representation
of place in the era of digital communication technology. My research has
focused on how the technique and technology of the moving 360° panorama
has evolved with new media to document places and engage audiences with
virtual reality of inhabited spaces. The methodology used to investigate this
history of panorama was to identify the technological developments used to
capture and present the wide view image over time, and interpret how the
evolution of media technologies have changed the panoramic form of
representation using examples of such visualisations.
The Float creative component reveals sustainability issues of places in the
Australian landscape with moving and suspended panoramic vision. An
interactive artwork has been developed from an investigation into man-made
interventions to river flows so as to illustrate relationships between community
and country forged by water management. All-encompassing 360° images
interpret the balancing act struck between man-made structures and native
bush found at the surface of intercepted waterways in South-Eastern Australia.
This artwork was informed by research into Australian land artists investigating
place and sustainability issues with panoramic artworks. The online element
was also influenced by discursive/rhetorical analyses of realestate website
design and content to comment on value dimensions of real places online.
The following written component of the MCA discusses the panorama as a
prevailing form and focuses on the new media history of moving and
interactive 360° imagery. This research identifies the techniques and methods
used to capture and present a virtual reality experience of place using
panoramas. My research also discusses contemporary artists who use the
panorama within traditional, digital and emergent dynamic mediums in
Australia. This discussion questions how and with what effect artists in the
digital era of virtuality have further evolved the tradition of panorama to
portray real places.
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