Collide - Saturation

Saturation is a digital water projection piece developed and produced by digital artist Joel Zika and Collide Public Arts Initiative with Voices of Frankston choir (VOF). The work uses a unique system of projection onto water mist which creates a real-world augmented reality, images you can touch and walk amongst.

In Saturation, performer’s faces appear on the cascading wall of water, creating a transparent three-dimensional interpretation of the choirs work to accompany their audio. Zika and Collide have worked with the VOF over many months to capture images and audio of the choir which will be presented on key nights over the duration of South Side Festival in Frankston. Saturation evolves to give the faces and voices of this particular Frankston community a prominence which they are not normally afforded.

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Artist and Producer bios

Collide is a public art initiative working across Australia and New Zealand on both temporary and permanent arts commissions. Collide has experience collaborating with artists and producing large-scale works for a wide range of clients. Recent projects include work with Tommeginner artist Jody Haines on a large-scale public artwork for Hickory in North Melbourne, with Wurundjeri Artist Aunty Kim Wandin on a major public commission for Lendlease in the Northern Beaches and with Artist Dennis Golding on two legacy public artworks in New South Wales with Billbergia.

Joel Zika is a Melbourne based media artist specialising in immersive media and it’s history. Joel utilises extensive research in location-based entertainment to build technologicaly innovative and visceral interaction through broadly engaging projects. Joel has been commissioned for Dark Mofo in Hobart and presented at conferences including Austin’s SXSW. His work features in the books ‘Darkness and Light in Australia Art’ and ‘Digital Light’. In 2020 he was a mentor for the Australian Centre for Projection Art, an artist in residence for Nillumbik Shire and Test Sites Online.

Collide - Saturation

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