moss.quarry.plaque
a collaborative public artwork for the City of Hobart’s digital twin
Keywords:
digital twin, walking artists, public art, Hobart, nipaluna, What3WordsAbstract
In May 2022 we launched moss.quarry.plaque, a public art commission for the City of Hobart, installed within the City of Hobart’s Digital Twin, a searchable, interactive, three dimensional "map" of Greater Hobart. The Digital Twin is a data-rich environment built from many different government and private data sets, used for planning the city’s infrastructure, traffic, land use and more. As artists and writers we tangle our voices and words to intercept the mesh of geocodes and data sets, woven algorithmically in the city’s digital twin.
We are the first artists to work with the planning team to ‘install’ an artwork in this environment.
moss.quarry,plaque is the trace of our exchanges held during three synchronous walks in our respective cities, nipaluna/Hobart and in Caerdydd/Cardiff, Wales. Through a process of call and response, geo-locating us in our own terrain, we composed a poetic score now inscribed on digital plaques in the digital twin and to be read and heard along the route of our walks.
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