CBF CMVP continues in the legacy of Chatty Bench Project as it emphasizes the participatory creation of place-based digital stories towards community advocacy and social justice activism. It differs in that it moves away from the screen of the smartphone and superimposes these stories onto building facades as visual projections. In projecting these digital stories, it intended to continue in the vision of Chatty Bench Festival where “everyone’s story” is visible in the public space. The project aimed to tackle issues of social isolation experienced in the neighbourhood of Kelvin Grove by building providing the community with opportunity of creative digital making and placemaking to enhance the community spirit of KGUV. The project facilitated by artists Kavita Gonsalves and Kofi Oduro, Montreal-based creative coder, involved workshops where KGUV community members contribute digital media made generated via a smartphone about their experiences of living, working, and studying in Kelvin Grove. They were further invited to learn and contribute creative code where the digital stories were visually patterned and contorted (like those seen in music festivals) with open-source live-coding tool Hydra. CBF CMVP took place on 4thDecember 2021 as the finale event of the Chatty Bench Festival. In the creation of a collective digital immersive experience of KGUV (the place), community members came under the stars to break bread, have conversations, meet an old friend, and laugh over the silly, fun, and sad digital media under the night sky.
WHAT IS BEING MADE
A community media visual projection onto QUT Z2 building in the QUT CI Precinct.
