Ian Gwilt
Ian Gwilt is a Digital Artist and program director of Visual Communications at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. He is also the co-director of the Creativity and Cognition Studios in Sydney. He holds an MA in Interactive Multimedia, conferred by the University of Balears (UIB) Spain, and the Royal College of Art (RCA) London, and in the last 10 years has shown interactive art installations and digital print work at numerous international new media events and galleries.
save_as
save_as is a mixed reality mobile installation which combines a physical gallery space with enhanced digitally content, triggered through the use of mobile technologies. In this artwork two upturned Perspex models, which appear as enlarged sculptural representations of the folder icons you would normally encounter on a computer desktop interface can be seen attached to a gallery wall. A PDA with video camera attachment or windows mobile allows the viewer to observe the virtual contents of the folders which comprises of overlaid virtual texts randomly linking common software commands with personal pronouns.