Live in-camera images taken from Eleventh Planet and featuring scenes from Eleventh Planet. Image supplied by Mott and Power

Eleventh Planet Past Event

Date

Thu 30 May 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Tickets

Free, No Booking Required

Venue

Tram stop 22, Tram route #01
11 Eastern Rd, South Melbourne VIC 3205, Australia

Access

Assistance animals welcome, Low sensory / relaxed, Seating available, Wheelchair accessible

The Eleventh Planet is an Augmented Reality (AR) experience overlaying a polished steel sphere sculpture, where viewers access interactive 3D animated artwork via a downloadable app. The sculpture explores ideas of the life of the solar system, and how the building that hosts the sculpture is part of the material inheritance of that life. The work represents the gentle arcing motion of the Sun, planets, and moons across compositions of virtual media. Within this scheme is glimpsed an imagined world – the Eleventh Planet.

Using AR technology, viewers will experience the gentle transformation of elemental and planetary states over vast spans of geological time: from their origins to the present and beyond. With a futuristic interface, users become cosmic travellers; enabling those encountering the sculpture to explore across vast expanses of time and space.

This site-specific AR experience transforms the 3m diameter chrome sphere sculpture into a series of interactive 3D animated artworks. These artworks depict evolving worlds ready to be explored, inspired by the materiality of the cosmos and deep time.

The AR experience is activated in an app by the bluestone tiles that Mott and Power designed for the work’s concrete plinth. To activate the AR artwork experience, users need simply to follow the prompts:

  1. Direct your and smart-device’s camera at the tiled walls under the sphere sculpture
  2. Once the App is downloaded no wi-fi or cellular connectivity is necessary.
  3. Explore the Eleventh Planet

Participants

Joanne Mott & John Power
Joanne Mott makes a broad range of artworks including collage, sculpture, installation, new media and site-responsive. Her works engage themes of ecologies, environment and placemaking. She has exhibited widely, received numerous site-specific public artwork commissions and has been shortlisted and awarded in Australia’s leading sculpture prizes.
John Power is a digital artist working across traditional, digital, and generative media, creating cinematic, live, and public artworks. John has exhibited artworks and films, and performed live generative video works nationally and internationally. John is a senior lecturer and researcher in the School of Design, RMIT, Melbourne, currently working with students to investigate ways that large urban public screens can function as Calm Technology for public placemaking.
John and Joanne have collaborated over the past 10 years for a number of public artworks, including: Plant Creatures Ferntree Gully Creative Placemaking Project City of Knox, Processional C3 Artspace, Pandorama RMIT New Academic Street Commissions and Lunaris Hepburn Shire Pubic art Commissions.