26 Jun The Derwent project

“Watershed” four channel synchronised video installation, “The Derwent” exhibition, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery from The Derwent Project on Vimeo.

This collaborative work, by David Stephenson and Martin Walch, explores the layers of the Derwent River. This work in particular uses large, suspended perspex screen that could be walked around and seen from either side.

from the website: “The aim of the Derwent Project is to produce a new aesthetic of experiencing a multilayered landscape over time, conveying its rich layering of information with clarity and impact. This is being achieved through the development of a highly portable means of image and sound capture that creates a powerful immersive representation of an intimate experience of remote environments; a means of layering additional environmental and historical information within these immersive representations; and a display approach that can cost-effectively present these immersive experiences in a range of different exhibition spaces. The visual outcomes will be new forms of immersive time-based digital imaging that evocatively reveal hidden layers of environmental information to both specialist and general audiences, by creating a comprehensive immersive 360º representation of an entire river system.”