Finding Byaduk

Field Notes

Abstract

The Finding Byaduk creative residency is an exploratory process aimed at producing speculations into the phenomenology of digital data representations of a landscape, and the design of interfaces and expressions to embody said representations. Part of this process is inspired by design ethnography, and the consideration of how its methodologies articulate a picture of the site in question. The creative brief centred around a thought experiment on ‘affective telepresence’, finding means to remotely convey the qualities of a place using environmental sensors, digital connected technologies, and the design of embodied expressions and/or interactions. Finding Byaduk: Field Notes covers the formative and supporting phases of this project, focusing on capturing ethnographic observations of the town, and connecting these to the eventual production of artefacts as a response to the written, visual and audio recordings of Byaduk.

I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land of the Gunditjmara peoples on which this project took place, and pay my respects to the Elders past, present and future.

Read the full article online at: https://drawingon.org/Issue-03-04-Finding-Byaduk