Echoes
Joe Dixon and Storybox
Property Partner:
106a Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011
5 - 28 February 2021
www.citytheatre.co.nz/artists/Echoes
Photography: Markuza Maric
Echoes is a giant digital mirror which is a photo-visualisation interactive installation designed to handle large amounts of visual data. It represents large collections of images as an impressive and cohesive whole – a giant mosaic constructed from thousands of smaller images. The image collection for City as a Theatre will be themed on ‘performance in Wellington’.
First created as part of an Urban Dream Brokerage commission in Dunedin 2015. We’re very pleased to see this work return and share with our Wellington whanau as part of the fantastic ‘What if the City as a Theatre?’ programme.
The Echoes installation is a space for contemplation, reflection, and a sense of grounding within time and place. The installation features an interactive digital mirror - thousands of images from decades' worth of photographic archives all swirl and shuffle to form a reflection of participants. The image of the present is constructed from the echoes of the past.
The installation is very much a living piece. By uploading images to Instagram and Facebook using the hashtag #citytheatrenz, people could feed back into the pool of archives and have their own images appear within the installation. Joe Dixon the artist behind the work is looking forward to see how Echoes evolves “Our hope is that as time passes the balance of the old and new images begins to mingle, creating a bunch of new Echoes connecting us to our past.”
Echoes has been created by creative coder Joe Dixon and Wellington creative studio Storybox.
