Digital learning workshop: Deep Field For primary students

What would a new ecosystem built by students from around the world look like? How can digital media allow us to experience and learn about each other’s natural worlds?

Take part in Deep Field, an interactive augmented reality and sonic experience that brings students together from around the world to create an imagined and collaborative ecosystem.

In this hands-on and interactive program, we get up close to artworks in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ collection including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art to draw inspiration for a new digital artwork. Using a custom iPad Pro drawing app, students create fantastical plants inspired by their encounters with art that are added to a global database of flora. Once added, students watch their creations grow in real time among a garden filled with student work from around the world.

Deep Field is created by artist collaborators Tin Nguyen and Edward Cutting (Tin&Ed) as a way to think critically about our role within nature and consider new perspectives about the natural world. It is part of the Art Gallery’s digital learning program, which is designed to promote the intersection between art and technology using the latest digital tools in the Media Lab of the Art Gallery’s new North Building.