Place-Urbanity immerses the visitor in 15 fully panoramic video recordings of Melbourne’s suburbs.
A pioneering and humorous work by new media artist Jeffrey Shaw, Place-Urbanity immerses the visitor in 15 fully panoramic video recordings of Melbourne’s suburbs. Each suburb is the district of a specific immigrant or ethnic community.
A robotic platform allows the visitor to rotate the projected image within a fully surrounding 9m diameter projection screen while they navigate through virtual space.
While exploring each of the panoramic scenes the visitor is entertained by a member of that community telling a joke. Place-Urbanity is a humorous comment on how different cultures establish their identities within the Australian socio-geographic context.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Previously on display
6 April 2003
ACMI Studio Gallery
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1001887
Subject category
Digital Art
Object Types
Installation
Materials
interactive video, software, platform, projection, colour and audio