Heartland
Heartland 2003, computer animation
Heartland is a 3minute computer-generated animation built with Maya software. Including live video and custom artwork the narrative follows the adventure of a female ‘Superbike racer’ enmeshed with her motorcycle in a process of reconfiguring the physical/psycho space of her world - a world in which the motorcycle eventually dissolves leaving behind a trail of ephemera. Heartland explores the ‘dissolving object’ of the post object age. It converses with the theoretical language of the cultural frame of design and enriches the debate on manufacture and serial production.
Developed for exhibition in Melbourne at Gertrude Contemporary Artist Spaces Heartland was subsequently presented in Milan at Viafarini in 2003 and guests of the 2003 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix.
This project acknowledges the support of the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria, Department of Premier and Cabinet, STORM FX and Alias wavefront.
Production team: Simone LeAmon, Daryl Munton, Dave Morison, Adam White, Shirham Manan, Ross Paterson, James Hollingworth & n+1 equals interdisciplinary studio.
