MY MONSTER
Seminar/Forum
Doug McDonell-503 (Steve Howard Theatre)
Level 5, Doug McDonell Building (Building 168)
Willoh will show examples of her previous work and discuss her new project MY MONSTER. MY MONSTER is a proposal for a participatory artwork to be researched and prototyped in 2020 with an outcome at the Science Gallery in 2021. Combining a performance in the Science Gallery with a take-home wearable, My Monster draws inspiration from the 90’s phenomenon of the Tamagochi handheld virtual pet.The My Monster companion’s virtual identity will be formed by the user’s physical relationship to it. This physical relationship will track a self-determined aspect of the owner’s intimate life. The discussion will centre on approaches to research, user testing and the system design of the overall project with a focus on how art and HCI both differ and intersect.
Presenter
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Willoh Weiland, University of MelbourneWilloh Weiland
University of Melbourne
Willoh S.Weiland is an artist, writer and curator. She works across art forms and is concerned with creating epic impossible ideas and trying to fulfil them, working with non artists, the possibilities of liveness in emergent technology and destroying the patriarchy. From 20102018 she was Artistic Director/ CEO of the artistled experimental arts organisation Aphids, presenting work nationally and internationally. Currently she is a Creative Associate of the MONA FOMA Festival and an Honorary Fellow and artist in residence at the Interaction Design Lab at the University of Melbourne. Recently commissioned works Visions (Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2020) and Lick Lick Blink (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2019) are collaborations with older women exploring their social visibility. Her trilogy of works Forever Now, Void Love and Yelling at Stars (20082015) explored the relationship between art and infinity by sending artworks into outer space. She is a recipient of the International Prize for Live Art (2015) for which she created Artefact, a funeral for obsolete technology (Anti Contemporary Art Festival, 2016) and the recipient of an Australia Council Fellowship for Experimental Practice in 2018.
