Footbridge Gallery Launch

Panel discussion: 4.30pm Refectory, Holme Building, USU
Live event: 5.30pm-9pm with performance, artworks, and DJ.

Enjoy light, sound and musical performance at our Footbridge Gallery live launch event.

We’ll have food, drinks and a DJ to help us activate the new outdoor gallery with a range of installations including Woodie the robot. Featured at Vivid Sydney, Woodie draws with luminescent chalk, making the ground come alive with stunning visualisations.

Together with the University of Sydney’s Vice-Principal (External Relations), Tania Rhodes-Taylor we invite you to share in launching this new digital placemaking space. Stay for a drink, a bite to eat, and to enjoy the artworks.

Panel discussion:

Before the official launch we welcome you to our panel discussion. Moderated by City of Sydney Councillor Jess Scully, the interdisciplinary panel will discuss the role of creative disciplines in bringing urban communities together, driving conversations and nurturing a sense of place. With backgrounds ranging from music composition to sculpture, digital design and performance arts, panellists will explore how sharing creative and innovative research in the arts can contribute to learning, civic debate, placemaking and community engagement. The panel will feature:

• Moderator: Jess Scully, City of Sydney Councillor
  
  
• Panel:
• Dr Daniel Blinkhorn, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
• Dr Luke Hespanhol, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
• Associate Professor Ian Maxwell, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies
• Dr Sanne Mestrom, Sydney College of the Arts

Live event:

Phosphene, by Daniel Blinkhorn and Luke Hespanhol

Phosphene is the phantom vision expressed in our eyes just closed, resulting from the nuanced lasting stimuli of nerve cells by elements other than light. Translated as an audio-visual performance, it suggests an atmospheric third-space of fleeting memory, semi-conscious perception and evanescent beauty. On it, Luke Hespanhol's low-resolution light poems, played on the Footbridge Gallery's Dash Wall, suggest a visual expression to Daniel Blinkhorn's delicate audio sculptures from his 'frostbYte cycle', composed from location-based field recordings made during an expedition throughout the Arctic region of Svalbard (Spitsbergeb). The combined effect evokes an afterimage of a vanishing ecosystem, changing audio-visual geometries and fleeting yet renewed strength.

This event has been brought to you by The University of Sydney and sponsored by StrongLED Lighting Systems