Project Description: Planning and construction of a public sculpture that builds upon the many established roles for art installation in a public location with the aim of creating a new, sustainable prototype that enhances the theatre of social dialogue surrounding environmental issues. In the demanding testing ground of large scale, unorthodox, electrical, and electronic public artworks, this sculpture will test new, robust technologies towards addressing problems of ecological degradation pertaining to the extravagant use of energy.
This Compass S.H.A.P.E project is under the umbrella of the Environmental Research Initiative for the Arts (ERIA), located at the College of Fine Arts Sculpture Department, at the University of New South Wales. We are in partnership with variuos institutions, such as Broken Hill Inc and the Sydney Olympic Park Authority to research ways that the process of fabricating art can be environmentally sustainable, as well as the role of art in small industry, telecommunications and the interface of physical objects with electronic communications, with applications in remote areas.
In developing this work there is the potential for creating links between the art sector and other community related sectors.
