Bayi Gardiya (Singing Desert) is an immersive, 360 degree moving image and sound experience.
The environment within Bayi Gardiya situates a visitor in the creek bed of The Sixth Mile, Barcaline, western Queensland. The imagery and sound within transforms from morning to midday and then to twilight and night. These transitions also shift through seasonal change to represent and also comment on the impacts of Global Warming on the fragile, semi-desert Hinterland and country represented in the work.
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Previously on display
23 May 2019
ACMI Future Lab
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ACMI Identifier
Z000126
Languages
Bidjara (Australian language)
English
Subject category
Virtual Reality
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Object Types
Virtual Reality Work
Materials
360 degree video, VR system, headphones, sand and AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia