Internationally acclaimed artist Craig Walsh will unveil DRIFT, the first stage iteration of a new site-specific digital sculpture responsive to environmental elements affecting the southern Gold Coast’s surf conditions like wave data and wind data – in real time.
This early incarnation of this digital artwork will take the form of an abstract kinetic 3D sculpture which appears as sand particles moving around a defined architectural space as influenced by live data feeds.
In this case? A room in the Coolangatta SLSC.
Each evening of the festival at night-fall, the beachside of Coolangatta SLSC will host a portal into the DRIFT first stage experience.
Shifting and shaping in time to data feeds informed by bouys offshore, DRIFT will reflect the unique environmental factors that contribute to the southern Gold Coast region’s infamous surf to create an evolving artwork that quite literally reflects and responds to place.
As a digital exploration into our coastal environment, DRIFT invites audiences to reexamine their relationship to this city’s seascape and the forces that shape it daily. It provides a new visual language which interprets environmental conditions, a new language to be learnt and shared within the community.
Craig Walsh
Mon, May 1
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
Tue, May 2
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
Wed, May 3
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
Thu, May 4
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
Fri, May 5
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
Sat, May 6
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
Sun, May 7
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
Mon, May 8
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
Tue, May 9
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
Wed, May 10
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
Thu, May 11
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
Fri, May 12
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
Sat, May 13
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
Sun, May 14
6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
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