CHINA HEART

China Heart is my first outing as a transmedia/ crossplatform producer. It debuted at Chinese New Year in Sydney. What have I learnt from the experience? Well, again I’ve had confirmed that ‘Story Is Everything’. Until I had Annette Shun Wah aboard as writer/director there was no ‘China Heart’. Annette brought passion, empathy and her own deep story to the production.

Digital media are strongly visual media. Tatiana Pentes had the right visual style for this production. She made it throb with beauty.

I worked for d/Lux Media Arts to realize it. Hitherto an organization known for curating media arts d/Lux – and its dynamic Director, Tara Morelos – discovered that ‘curating’ in the on-line world also means ‘producing’.

The architecture and the code came from The Project Factory. It was a move in new directions for this organization, also.

The project was built for The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney’s wonderful museum of technology.

It was always Annette’s and my desire to have this mobile phone experience also spill out into the streets. Thus we organized an art installation of wonderful historical photographs in Albion Place, Sydney. And we envisaged the climax of this tour/game/immersive experience as a live scene from Chinese Opera delivered in Sydney’s beautiful Chinese Garden of Friendship.