The (old) CuriousWorks Blog

Last night CuriousWorks premiered a projection work at Federation Square called Overflow. Put on by Melbourne Fringe Festival and Federation Square, Overflow is an animated work that imagines Melbourne’s city centre underwater and the different kind of life its citizens would have in that world. » Read the rest of this entry «

Last Saturday saw CuriousWorks hosting its first workshop at Randle st, a workshop clearly focused on really defining and explaining the basic building blocks of web design by writing html code. Slammed into an intense four hours, participants with no prior experience of HTML found themselves creating web pages from scratch, hand-coding everything. » Read the rest of this entry «

Tired of kids having all the fun? Got a video recording device? Got a tennis ball? Then lets make a video!! This month, CuriousWorks wants you to participate in our Ballgame Video exercise. Simply film yourself/friends/pets/garden gnomes catching a ball and then throwing it off-screen. Upload the video to your favourite video hosting platform (Vimeo, Youtube etc) and then paste the URL of your submission in the Comments section below. » Read the rest of this entry «

CuriousWorks spends a lot of time in high-schools doing workshops that are an eclectic mix of art, theatre and multimedia exercises. These workshops are constantly evolving and changing and many are influenced by websites and artists who inspire us. We thought we’d share some of the websites that are the shoulders we stand on and inspire our work. » Read the rest of this entry «

Greetings from Melbourne, Curious folk. Shakthi and Aimee reporting here. We’re in Melbourne developing an animated projection of Federation Square as if it is underwater, to be projected onto the city icon itself during the Melbourne Fringe and Urban Screens Festivals. It’s called ‘Overflow’. » Read the rest of this entry «