The MCA Good Vibration Caravan is ready to hit the road again. The Good Vibration team will be heading to Wollongong on the 29th May and will be setting up at the Wollongong City Art Gallery.

Come and check it out!

Good Vibration Caravan Tour Wollongong 29th May - 31st May 2008

Justine McLisky, the MCA’s Education Coordinator (Youth and Outreach Programs) is travelling to Wellington to make a presentation about the Good Vibrations project at the generic viagrabuy levitra online2007 ANZAAE Conference.

She’ll be showing snippets from the documentary video produced by Darrin Baker, as well as explaining the process of working towards such a complex art and education project.

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Bruce’s diagram of how the caravan works. (Birds eye view.) Click on the image to see it in LARGE size!

The ears (the spiral shapes in the drawing) are in front of the caravan (to the top of the diagram) - they collect sounds from the environment surrounding the front of the van.

The rectangle at the top of the drawing shows the area within the scope of the caravan’s “eyes”.

The dotted area at the rear of the Caravan shows a schematic idea of how the process of “gathering sights and sounds” will work. The students go on a “wandering workshop” with Bruce and Michael, working as a team to collect interesting sounds from the local school environment.

One student acts as the “soundkeeper” with a mp3 recorder, while the other students listen, suggest sounds to record, and often strike objects to see what kinds of sounds they make when they resonate.

Several students carry digital cameras, documenting the process of recording sounds, but also taking direct photographs of the objects or zones which have been recorded.

Later the sound recordings, together with the images of the sound-sources, will be loaded into the Good Vibrations computers, and will become part of the database of images and sounds which are able to be activated by users who play with the caravan’s interface.

Thus the expedition to collect sights and sounds results in the students actively contributing content to the caravan – they are participants in the making of the work, and are later able to identify their own contributions (the images and audio recordings from their own environments).

News just in…over 1000 people visited Good Vibrations during its display outside the MCA from 4-20 November!!

Special Event: Good Vibrations at MCA for
International Day of People with a Disability

Sunday 3 December

MCA Front Lawn, Circular Quay West, The Rocks

Good Vibrations returns to the MCA for one day only to mark International Day of People with a Disability, this Sunday 3 December from 10am - 5pm. People with disabilities, their families, friends and carers can interact with this multi-sensory installation, housed in a fully accessible caravan outside the MCA.

Admission is free. Enquiries to MCA Education: 9245 2484 or education@mca.com.au

http://www.internationaldayofpeoplewithadisability.com.au

[The following article was written by Andrea Hooper, Year 11 student at Wyndham College. Trish Keller, our fabulous host from Wyndham emailed it through today!]

On Monday, October 30th, Wyndham College had an exciting visit from the Good Vibrations crew. Michael Luck Schneider, a sound artist, and Bruce Odland, an installation artist fresh from New York city, were accompanied by Lucas Ihlein, Education Officer at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Vic McEwan the preparatory artist at the MCA and Darrin Baker who is making a documentary on the ‘art making’ process. The group have been travelling to various schools in Sydney to work directly with special needs and mainstream students to collect sounds and pictures to incorporate into their artwork. All are part of the MCA’s Bella Program for Youth with Specific Needs.

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