Isobelle Pover 'The Fish are Running'

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The Fish are Running COFA0991 CROSS DISCIPLINARY ART& DESIGN • PORTFOLIO PART C Project Location Quiberee, Lavender Bay, NSW PAGES 2-5 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 PAGE 8

1 Art installation 3D + Interactive component 2 Dance Workshop + Performance 3 Interactive component for historic reflection: Bridge Acknowledgements and References

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Disciplines: Sculpture and Textiles Project 1 Art installation 3D + Interactive component 2 Dance Workshop + Performance 3 Interactive component for historic reflection: Bridge

1. Design Aims Format: Installation in a parkland environment of Lavender Bay, North Sydney, to be accessible for visitors that give them the experience of the sense of place of Quibaree; ‘Spring of fresh water.’

This artwork recognises many aspects of its sense of place; historical and social experiences, the spiritual significance to the Cameraygyl Aboriginals. This area was the site of their first encounter with the ‘First Fleeters’, today no descendants are living.

Today this offers a place for play, leisure, promenades, jogging, fishing, arrival and departure by boats and ferries. It is a shaded parkland reserve with a thirty meter rock face to one end and the view out to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It is bounded by a narrow roadway and parked cars.

ISOBELLE POVER-LEONG • Z3293619 • 7 OCTOBER 2009 • This component to develop graphic of visual communication.

• Creates a sense of playful fun, promotes physical interaction and participation.

1 Art installation 3D Status of project • Research into many materials and methods of illumination. how can these be applied to my ideas and how to the ideas reform with knowledge of materials.

• Trial and error looking at structural ways to support fish shaped elements.

• Referring to the feedback made on Part B by the elective subject teachers: Sculpture and Textiles.

• Find ways to develop the space and its ambient senses of history • Examine materials that will deliver the idea, bring a sense of wonder and magic • Examine ways to create an interaction and level of participation • Prepare and text materials to envisage idea • Create a sense of Fish Running, through the park land, pass the old convict wall, around the well and out to the drinking fountain down the railway bridge arch • A construction that will act like a fence, a netlike mesh, a substrate for the fish to be displayed.

• Illuminate this structure during dusk, night and dawn • Colours will flux thought the structure by the sound and movement sensors as participants move around the site.

• The exhibit to utilise new technological textiles that have LED capacity

2. Performance Art Workshop Aims Format: Textiles and designs for the fabrics of Female and Male performers • Specification for textiles and designs suitable for dance costumes at workshops and performance by a troupe of urban contemporary dancers. The troupe to collaborate with Australian and Aboriginal Australians, to portray through choreography and music a story of awakening and reverberation in a theme of ‘The Fish are Running’ based on the meaning from the Aboriginal name of Quibaree.

• A ‘corroberee’ performance will mark the site and link it to its long Aboriginal history. This will bring to mind the sense of place and it’s spiritual meaning for Aboriginal people and visitors.

• The idea of this is get people in touch with participating and learning about a ‘corroberee’ what it’s function is how it is a bridge to connect to this space.

3. Audio Visual Flat Screen Aims Format: Source and design an interactive component, graphic sequence of imagery, this cna visually link to the textile designs for the performance costumes. and theme of the installation.

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• Red line shows proposed layout for Fish Run • Orange line is the existing pathway • Map SPACKMAN & MOSSOP,, Paddington, NSW 2007

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1 Art installation 3D continued Substrate • Possibility to develop a mesh fence with Fish as a permanent exhibit.

• Exploring materials • below http://www.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/ extreme_textiles/site/index.htm

IDEA images, shot in electives: Society through the lens and Textiles for senses and spaces

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above Manufactured by Tony Industries Inc. Japan, designed 1996, manufactured 2003, machine-made knotless netting of interconnected twisted polymer threads.

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1 Art installation 3D continued Design 1 “Fish Running” Development • ´Exploring materials to trial a Marquette

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Figure 1. YouTube 1 Art installation 3D continued Design 1 “Fish Running” Development Fish element • Develop a fish shape that can be a module for interaction, limited decoration or offer sizes and shapes. This is level of interaction to be determined.

Figure 3. YouTube Figure 2. Floor, Town Hall Station, The Victoria Arcade, Sydney

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Figure 4. YouTube

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2 Performance Art + Workshop status of project Research

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Dancer Jamiila and AV Artist VJ Pablo,

Format: Textiles and design for fabrics for Female and Male performers • Specification for textiles and design suitable for dance costumes for a performance by a troupe of urban contemporary dancers to refer to a story of awakening and reverberation in a theme of ‘The Fish are Running’ based on the meaning from the Aboriginal name of Quibaree.

• A ‘corroberee’ performance will mark the site and link it to its long Aboriginal history. This will bring to mind the sense of place and it’s spiritual meaning for Aboriginal people.

• The idea of this is get people in touch with participating and learning about a ‘corroberee’ what it’s function is how it is a bridge to connect to the space.

left to right images Dancer Jamiila and AV Artist VJ Pablo, Engraver - Secret Garden by Tamae Hirokawa, Design Boom.

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3 Interactive component for Bridge touchscreen location

Interaction projection technology • Development of images, these to interact with participants hands and sense of touch, graphics disperse on approach and trail a school of fish and marine creatures and phosphorescence after a departing movement.

Format: Audio Visual, Flat Screen - Multi touch Status of project: Research Source and design an interactive component, graphic sequence of imagery, this will link to the textile designs for the performance costumes.

• This component to develop the graphics • Creates a sense of playful fun, promotes physical interaction and participation

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• People interact in a sympathetic way to this type of activity often playing along with movements, speed and gesture.

• This alters their mood and this one is designed to be playful and gentle.

• Can have audio accompaniment.

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Acknowledgements “Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance,” the first museum exhibition devoted to the subject of technical textiles—highly engineered materials designed for ultimate performance in extreme conditions. http://cooperhewitt.org/COLLECTIONS/textiles.asp http://www.cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS http://www.indigenousaustralia.info/culture/corroborees-a-ceremonies.html www.bangarra.com.au www.dexigner.com Chloë Colchester, Textiles Today: A Global Survey of Trends and Traditions, 2007 Alison lewis and Fang-Yu Lin, Switch Craft: Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sew Syuzi Pakhchyan, Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting, 2008 Drusilla Cole, Textiles Now, 2008 Melaine Bowles, Digital Textile Design: Portfolio Skills (Portfolio Skills: Fashion & Textiles) 2008 Bradley Quin, Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge, 2008 Sabine Seymour, Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology, 2008 Stephen Page - art.afterhours Art GAllery of New South Wales References Figures 1,2,4,5 YouTube retrieved 2 Oct 2009 Figure 2 Floor, Town Hall Station, The Victoria Arcade, Sydney Page 2 and 3 Digital Photography I.Pover-Leong Encircling Fishing Net retrieved http://www.cooperhewitt.org

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Nextwall retrieved http://www.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/extreme_textiles/site/ index.htm Page 5 Dancer Jamiila and AV Artist VJ Pablo retrieved YouTube 2 Oct 2009 Page 5 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.Channel&ChannelID=48477648 retrieved 7 Oct 2009

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Refer Reflection Reconstruct SKETCH BOOK DIAGRAMS + MAPS MATERIALS CONSTRUCTION

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The Fish are Running COFA0991 CROSS DISCIPLINARY ART& DESIGN • PORTFOLIO PART C Project Location Quiberee, Lavender Bay, NSW PAGES 2-5 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 PAGE 8

1 Art installation 3D + Interactive component 2 Dance Workshop + Performance 3 Interactive component for historic reflection: Bridge Acknowledgements and References

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SKETCH BOOK - REFER to Sculpture brief Piece of string and JAzz - and Creative Thinking Refer, Reflect and Reconstruct: • Sculpture • Fish element - Examine ways of ‘Joining’ materials together • Materials: Mesh as a substrate for Fish element • Materials to attach as a personalised element using decoration • Weathering, durability • Method of attachment to Textile Substrate

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3 SKETCH BOOK - REFER to Sculpture brief and Creative Thinking Refer, Reflect and Reconstruct: • Sculpture - Examine ways of “Joining’ materials together • Sculpture - Explore the layout of the Parks using the SPACE • Textiles - Look at possible materials • Textiles - How can these contribute to the sense of space?

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Conductive Fabric and Textiles Composition • textiles plated or woven with metallic elements such as silver, nickel, tin, copper and or aluminium Properties • lightweight, durable, flexible fabrics that have the capacity to conduct electricity with low resistivity • can be sewn like traditional textiles • soft, washable (some) and wearable Applications • can be used to create flexible and soft circuit boards, pressure and positionsensing systems and controls for electronics that can conform to #d shapes.

Conductive Thread and Yarn Compostion • textile yard containing metallic elements, stainless steel or silver, with nylon or polyester as the usual fiber base.

Properties • similar to wired or conducive traces, creates paths for current to flow from one point to another.

• unlike wires it is flexible and can be sewn, woven or embroidered onto textiles allowing for the creation of soft circuits traditional circuits are etched onto copper sheet laminated onto non-conductive substrate, these printed circuit boards (PCBs) are rigid in nature.

Reference Syuzi Pakhchyan, Fashioning Technology, O’Reilly Media Inc. 2008,

‘Weldmesh’: galvanised or a powdercoated finish ‘Chain Wire’ All Hills Fencing Installation: ‘weldmesh’ fencing around schools, hospitals, along roadways, council parks & gardens, residential yards and multiple other sites where public access controls are required.

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LOCATION: WATT PARK ROUTE: FISH RUNWAY ROCK FACE

WATT PARK

RAILWAY LINE RESERVE

RAILWAY LINE RESERVE

QUIBAREE PARK

Orange Safety Fencing Detailed Product Description The material of this orange safety fence is PP,it is used to cordon off danger areas at construction and excavation sites.

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2) Width: 90 - 120cm 3) Weight: not less than 120g/sqm Applications • • • • • •

Construction Sites Traffic Control Sporting Events Industrial Facilities Road Work Home and Garden

SUBSTRATE: SECTIONS OF MATERIAL

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Anti-bird netting is made of extruded plastic mesh knitted in 15x15mm, 20x20mm or 30x30mm meshes Technical Info: Anti bird net is available in black, white or other custom colors.

Mesh size: 15mm, 20mm or 30mm or other sizes.

Net width: 1m to 25m Length: 5 to 1000m or as your choice.

We supply typically three types of bird netting: 15x15mesh plastic mesh; Diamond opening bird netting with opening of 20mm or 30mm; Square mesh bird netting with opening of 12mm or 19mm Features and Uses: Plastic mesh bird netting is economical and reliable in plant protection against birds. It is solid and durable for several growing seasons and it can also be easily removed and re-rolled for next use.

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CableProtect™ Rubber Cable Covers Rubber extrusion for protecting cables across roads and in offices. Helps prevent accidents caused by trailing cables and leads. Loose cables can easlily be contained. The rubber profile offers a safe ramp which eliminates trip hazards. All CableProtect profiles are black in colour, with the exception of the 'Hazard' profile which is black and also incorporates three yellow stripes along the top surface.

Power X05B0003G 26mm 145mm x 34mm x 3mtrs

http://www.boddingtons.com.au/construction/ barrier-fencing-mesh.htm

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Auschain™ Plastic Chain High strength UV Stabilised plastic safety barrier chain for cordoning off areas. Highly durable material and bright colours mean Auschain™ can be used for both indoor and outdoor applications. Supplied on spools and available in a wide range of colours.

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Part Number: ON 2870 Mesh Size: 1” x 2" Weight (lbs/1000 ft2): 2.7 Feet/Roll: 20,000' Master Roll Width: 96" Roll Weight (lbs): 252 Resin: PP Color: Natural

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THE FISH ARE RUNNING

PROJECT LOCATION: WATT’S PARK, QUIBAREE BAY - LAVENDER BAY, SYDNEY, NSW

Photographs Isobelle Pover-Leong

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THIS PROJECT PAYS RESPECT TO THE SACRED LANDS OF THE CAMMERAYGAL PEOPLES

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TODAY The unique location of this project’s scenario lends itself to historic references with a back drop of one of Australia’s lasting iconic engineering feats, the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Directly facing the span to the North, is Lavender Bay basking in historic content and hive modern leisure activities and urbanisation.

• Red line shows proposed layout for Fish Run • Orange line is the existing pathway

Quibaree Bay Lavender Bay

Photograph Isobelle Pover-Leong

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ISOBELLE POVER-LEONG z3293619 25 OCTOBER 2009 It is a temporary structure, erected at ground level with a protective surface for the turf. It is an interactive light installation that echoes the line of the park driving the ‘run’ around some key historical points;

History and significance This is a hot spot for bayside activities, bright colours, blue skies and harbourside walking.

There are many hidden locations that tell stories of invasion and development of the first Western culture and displacement of its indigenous people.

This project takes its cue from there to find discover the original Spring water of Quibaree, that sustained the ‘First Fleeters’ of 1788, when drought hit their community early on.

This public space is sheltered behind by a sandstone rock surface, mature trees and is grass turfed, partially shaded and cool. It exits to the bay via a Victorian, brick railway arch with a rail line overhead used by Steam Train enthusiasts. A Convict built sandstone wall arcs around part of the park, a natural sweep is across the park and out through the arched into Lavender Bay. The Aboriginal Quibaree inhabitants; Cammeraygal people inhabited this area before the ‘First Fleeters’ invaded in 1788. Quibaree is the Aboriginal name meaning ‘fresh spring water’ little evidence exists of this today save for a local plaque. The spring now dribbles down the rock face and behind a parking area.

Concept The project was inspired by the name of Quibaree meaning ‘fresh spring water’ and the interpretation is a metaphoric awakening from the origins of the park. The significance of the sea as a source of food for the indigenous inhabitants is the theme of the installation and a reference to the force of life, nature’s food chain and our reliance on water. This has been visualised as interactive installation in a parkland area of Watt’s Park. The name of the project The Fish are Running refers to the Fisher’s’ expression denotes that schools and shoals of fish are running across a feeding ground, in nature’s food chain this means everyone is ‘chasing and being chased’.

This is presented to the community of locals workers and visitors as an art installation it’s theme referring to the indigenous people of the Cammeraygal.

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• ancient fi shing ground of the indigenous Aborigines of Quibaree, the peoples of the Cammeraygal • hand-hewn sandstone wall, built in 1800‘s by convicts • the stone Well made in the early 18th Century, the 1920‘s Drinking Fountain and out towards the bay facing the Harbour Bridge, Quibaree Bay

Design Aims Location Parkland environment of Watt’s Park, Lavender Bay, North Sydney, to be accessible for visitors that give them the experience of the sense of place of Quibaree; ‘Spring of fresh water.’

Format: Installation This artwork recognises many aspects of its sense of place; historical and social experiences, the spiritual significance to the Cammeraygal Aboriginals. This area was the site of their first encounter with the ‘First Fleeters’, no descendants are living in this area.

Today this offers a place for play, leisure, promenades, jogging, fishing, arrival and departure by boats and ferries. It is a shaded parkland reserve with a thirty metre rock face to one end and the view out to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It is bounded by a narrow roadway and parked cars.

• The ‘sense of play’ is extended from Luna Park, further around the bay to Watt’s Park with the installation The Fish are Running. This is a temporary public installation with an interaction component.

• It functions at peak visual performance with darkness falling, playing on the innate human comfort of pleasure and delight from illumination.

• It illuminates from a variety trigger points on sensing movement, this makes active the fish forma with luminescent light and the sea grass illuminates using optical plastic fibres.

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Disciplines: Sculpture and Textiles 1 Art installation 3D Process • Research materials and methods of illumination for developing the idea and defining the visuals.

• ideas search for knowledge of materials • Visualise structural ways to support fish shaped elements.

• Refer to the feedback made on Part B by the elective subject teachers: Sculpture and Textiles.

• Develop the space and its ambient sense of history • Examine materials that will deliver the idea, bring a sense of wonder and magic • Create interactive ways for participation with the place, the installation and other visitors interpretive play • Diagrams specify to materials, scale, construction and components • Create a sense of Fish Running, through the park a construction that will act like a fence, a substrate for the fish to be displayed.

2 How it works • Illumination of this structure is during dusk, night and dawn, this opens it for different parkland users • Colours will flux thought the structure by the sound and movement sensors, optically transfered from infrared red LEDs, as participants move around the site.

• The exhibit to utilise new technological textiles that have LED capacity, and a tri-color phase LED with “electroluminescence effects” to cycle through a programmed series of nine hues, grouped in threes, these being in palettes of • red/pink/orange • blue/tuquoise/plum • lemon/lime/banana • sounds made in the park will be measured and converted into brightness values (luminescence flux) and information can be wirelessly transfered to LEDs. • LED light is passive ad optoelectronic, low energy consumption. have high(fast0 switching rates. these can be wireless routers. These have fifty times longer operational time than incandescent bulbs. Low Carbon footprint - 29kg of CO-2 for 10 hours equivalent 40W:12W LED. 3 The Ambiance The site is transformed into a magical place full of atmosphere and the wonder of fantasy and excitement. It gives a sensory experience of space and scale. There is a fundamental

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ISOBELLE POVER-LEONG z3293619 25 OCTOBER 2009 instinct in humans to collect near a light source in the dark, this is where the innate attraction in light installations lies. The other aspect is the element of play, with the

way the lights behave in an unexpected way, this is thrilling as it surprises, and then the interaction of ‘trying’ out touching to see what happens; human exploration and experimentation, anthropomorphizing with the light.

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Railway Arch inside, you can see the Harbour Bridge structure in the background Railway Arch on approach from Watt’s Park

ROCK FACE

WATT PARK

RAILWAY LINE RESERVE

RAILWAY LINE RESERVE

QUIBAREE PARK

Sandstone rock face arcing Watt’s Park left Initial Sketch visualisation of an idea

Hand Hewn Convict sandstone, quarried form the area. early 1800’s

Watt’s Park, the path walking towards the Railway Arch

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Watt’s Park, Water Dribbler, originally located in the 1920’s Photograph Isobelle Pover-Leong

Watt’s Park,first entrance the path walking towards the Railway Arch

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Visuals

National Gallery of Australia Ellen Trevorrow Njgarrinindjeri people South Australia Fish Scoop 1999 Woven 20x30x62cm

Torres Strait Islander Art Artisit Uknown Jirrbai People (?)

Queensland 48x30x30cm

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THE FISH ARE RUNNING SPECIFICATIONS 1

Support frame Shaped sprung wire to open shape of fish

Wind Sock: Smart textile: electronicknitting.

Conductive fibers, coated in conductive oxide, combined into a componant yarn;Stretch Polyester, Yarn is knitted into a textile analog of a wire, creating a Smart textile.s

Fish Sock 56 long cm x 20 deep cm

Cross section of Fish attached to Tube Affected by wind direction Outer tube circulates fish tail around inground Master pole

Tubes x 2 Outer moves with the wind Inner tube Master Pole is stationery inground, fixed.

Tubular knitted smart textile, pulled over a frame

Fish Wind Sock

cut angle of Master Pole (tube) to secure into ground slit vertically for EL Wire to stay above ground and be connnected to Master wireline

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COMPONENTS 1) 2 clear acrylic tubes 120 cm long x 4 cm diameter 2) + 23 cm x 4 cm diameter 3) Polyester substrate 56 cm x 20 cm 4) length of sprung wire 22 cm approx.

5) length of copper sheet 3cm x 20 cm 6) copper disc 2 cm diameter 7) flat Plastic for clip 8mm x 20mm 8) fibre optic plastic lengths

Wind sock Wind Powered in horizontal circular movement

Scale 1:7 Poles 100cm to140cm

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THE FISH ARE RUNNING SPECIFICATION 2 SCALE 1:7 Plastic clip, heat sealed, to sandwich fish tail and make rigid, this creates a ‘slide’ and secures the fish tail between outer and Master tube

Outer tube with fish tail Polyester substrate

vertical cutout cut in outtube

Master Tube Clear Acrylic 40 mm diameter 100cm length

Length of copper wire soldered to copper disc and EL

Master tube

Polyester substrate

Electroluminescent (EL)Wire A thin flexible wire coated in phosphor that emits a bright light when electricity is applied using very little current.

Can be used to illuminate curved and 3D surfaces, the wire is extremely flexible.

Fish: Polyester substrate

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This end pushed into the ground

Scale 1:7 Poles 100cm to140cm

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THE FISH ARE RUNNING SPECIFICATION 3 SCALE 1:7

Collar

Collar: Fibre optics sewn, glued or knotted into a flat strip to encircle the vertical master tube.

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1 MASTER POLES are erected by ‘staking’ these into the ground, the Fibre Optic Collar sits at the base, the LED receives current from a low voltage battery source, this connects to small sections of runway.

2 SECTIONS of Runway are placed around the park.

As visitors to the site move towards these objects the illumination begins, from any movement, bird, bat, dog, or persons, flying, walking or running.

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3 MOVEMENT sensors located around the park will acitive the LEDs, this in turn sends a current up the wire inside the Master Poles to activate the electronic fabric of the Fish Wind sock.

4 The Fish Wind Socks will move to turn with the wind.

Composed of two tubes one grounded and the other to swivel freely, mimicking the way fish move collectively in the water in currents to feed in shoals.

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5 The tips of each Fibre Optic strand give out tiny white illuminations that mimic the marine bed sea grasses and lumnescent life in the ocean.

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Acknowledgements “Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance,” the first museum exhibition devoted to the subject of technical textiles—highly engineered materials designed for ultimate performance in extreme conditions. http://cooperhewitt.org/COLLECTIONS/textiles.asp http://www.cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS http://www.indigenousaustralia.info/culture/corroborees-a-ceremonies.html www.bangarra.com.au www.dexigner.com Light-emitting diode, Wikipedia Chloë Colchester, Textiles Today: A Global Survey of Trends and Traditions, 2007 Alison Lewis and Fang-Yu Lin, Switch Craft: Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sew Syuzi Pakhchyan, Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting, 2008 Drusilla Cole, Textiles Now, 2008 Melaine Bowles, Digital Textile Design: Portfolio Skills (Portfolio Skills: Fashion & Textiles) 2008 Bradley Quin, Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge, 2008 Sabine Seymour, Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology, 2008 I.Hoskins, Aboriginal North Sydney, An outline of indigenous history, North Sydney Council, 2007

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