Bitscape was a community art project that was devised to promote new media art-making (computer generated and media based art) as a tool to empower young people from regional areas of Australia.
The project involved a workshop program where Koorie students from the Woolum Bellum Campus made their own blogs and learned digital video skills; and artworks they produced using traditional art-making methods were digitised to make slides for a large-scale, outdoor projection. The site for this projection event was the TRUenergy power station in Yallourn North - the canvas, a 90-meter high cooling tower.
Bitscape in Latrobe achieved its aim of generating pride in the community and generating opportunities to showcase Latrobe as an exciting and interesting place to live. Over 3,800 people attending the free event which was similar to going to the ‘drive in’. Feedback from the community was that the show was amazing and the enormous images unlike anything that they had ever seen before. Many people commented on how professional and creative the production was and many who do not ordinarily attend arts events stated that would attend something similar in the future if the opportunity arose.
The project was a partnership project between Latrobe City, the Next Wave Festival, Woolum Bellum Campus and TRUenergy.
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