Pilgrim is the title of my Doctorate of Creative Arts, a creative and academic project exploring spatialised narrative, practices of walking landscape, and how this may resonate with locative media, particularly works revealing location based histories. What do earlier practices involving walking in landscapes of meaning reveal about contemporary mobile and locative media practices. More...
“traces” is an original digital media work for mobiles commissioned by d’Lux Media Arts
traces: stories written upon this town
for the d’Art 05 Mobile Journeys national media arts exhibition at the Sydney Opera House Exhibition Hall. “traces” is a creative work for mobile phones exploring relationships of people, memory, history and place, in which iconic Sydney sites reveal layers of personal and cultural history. An experiment in the fusion of video documentary and emerging social media forms using the internet and mobile phones, “traces” was later exhibited at the Telstra Adelaide Festival Media State program in March 2006. In June 2007, traces was invited into the international program of the Pocket Film Festival at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. In it, a range of iconic Sydney locations reveal intimate secrets and shared moments. http://www.dlux.org.au/mobilejourneys/meganhayward.html
This blog is documentation of a range of creative works developed over the last decade or more. Some funded, exhibited, published. Others in progress or in the process of becoming.
Many of my works engage with memory – memory & place, memory & objects, memories that are traced on skin, or on landscape. The past bleeding through to the present, threading across time. Narrative crafted, and delivered, in fragments. I’m interested in the slowing down of time, finding and contemplating the spaces in between. I primarily work with narrative and digital technologies, and I write in text, image, moving image, sound, and interaction.