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Powerhouse Museum’s unique ‘living’ acquisition- Artefact H10515

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Powerhouse Museum’s unique ‘living’ acquisition that explores the diverse ways we source, shape and present collections.
Artefact H10515 moves and breathes contained within the physical boundaries of the display case it inhabits. Visitors can interact with Artefact H10515 by touching the glass case and uploading their own favourite things from within and beyond the Museum via the Thingalyzer. From one day to the next the form of Artefact H10515 will evolve in random and unexpected ways.

Artefact H10515 prowls around feeding on content from a variety of sources from across the internet including the Museum’s own collection to present a constantly changing organism.
Artefact H10515 explores alternative ways of presenting and experiencing a collection and incorporating the collection interests of the wider Museum community.

Why is it called H10515?
An artefact is defined as any object made or modified by humans. When naming the artefact in this gallery we turned to Museum’s historical method for numbering and cataloguing objects.
From 1889 to 1984 the Museum divided objects into categories such as wool, minerals or vegetable products. Each category was assigned a letter of the alphabet. As an object entered the collection it was given an appropriate letter followed by a number. The last number in the ‘miscellaneous’ group was H10514.

Craig Walsh creates computer manipulated imagery as projections onto, and in response to, existing environments and contexts. In so doing his work encourages people to question their engagement with these sites.

This has led to the production of work in diverse locations including train lines, carparks, shop windows, galleries and historical architecture. He is especially interested in developing cross disciplinary and cultural collaborations.

Craig has been awarded international residencies and has exhibited through Asia working across a range of forms including theatre, architecture, public works, gallery exhibitions and festivals.

In October 2008 the Powerhouse Museum invited him to meet with its staff, explore its boundaries and territories and in the process create a new work. The Museum was looking to reveal something that was vital to it and at the same time offer our audiences a chance to collaborate or perhaps simply to marvel. The theme that surfaced again and again during the extended conversation was the notion of collections and collectors. Even when it came to data about the collection we were hounds.

The result of that residency and collaboration is Artefact H10515. It follows Craig’s previous work in that it opens a passage between the familiar and the strange, the real and the fabricated. It extends his work in that it is constantly responding to data fed to it via the Thingalyzer.com website.
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