24 – 31 October:
Artists in residence working with children with disabilities at schools across Sydney.

4 -14 November 2006:
“Good Vibrations” open 10.00am – 5.00pm, Museum of Contemporary Art forecourt.
Free admission. Groups must book in advance.

About the Project
The MCA has invited two internationally respected US artists, composer and sound artist Bruce Odland and New York-based interactive designer and new media artist Michael Luck Schneider to come to Australia in October 2006 (Sydney’s spring), to work with students with disabilities (comprising physical, sensory, intellectual, behavioral and emotional disabilities) from schools in the Sydney basin to develop and present a unique, multi-media, sensory art installation environment.

The Caravan
The caravan is fitted out with highly advanced technical receptors and equipment, panels of speakers and sensory computers, so children who have sensory disabilities, including vision and hearing impairment, can have a fully engaging experience of the environment. The sounds and vibrations and light patterns are collected from various sites around Sydney, including near the Blue Mountains and at Manly. The gathering of the sounds and light patterns will be done in small groups around the selected site, and the resulting information will be edited by the children in the caravan in an assisted process with the artists.

The artists have said:

“When you enter the caravan you experience the environment through your perceptions, quite differently through colour, vibration, and sound, and patterns of the elements that the caravan has collected in its journey. The level of mediation, resolution and clarity will all be controlled through interacting with a simple vibro-tactile interface inside the trailer. Our previous work together went well beyond accessibility requirements into communication with populations previously thought unreachable, and we are very interested in keeping this wide accessibility at the centre of our new work, including wheelchair access.”