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Are you a local artist? creative? graphic designer?

Yes? Well do we have a very exciting opportunity for you.

The City of Ballarat is looking for artists, creatives, graphic designers or school students to play a part in the 2019 Ballarat Winter Festival.

Supporting the Creative City Strategy, the City of Ballarat it looking for several artists to contribute to an augmented reality (AR) art walk which will feature as a major highlight of this year’s festival.

Augmented reality is an interactive experience that sees technology used to superimpose images, text and sometimes sounds on objects that reside in the real world.

This will be the first time the City of Ballarat has explored the use of augmented reality during one of its events.

An Expression of Interest (EOI) is now open, calling for ideas from local artists to be included in the new ‘Hidden Stories’ art walk.

Artists are being encouraged to look at the stories beneath the surface of our city, and of the people that have lived and loved, and continue to make the tales of our town.

There are spaces for several artists to take part, and each artist will be encouraged to produce at least one artwork.

The successful artists will be invited to participate in education and training, assisting them in learning how to animate their works through an augmented reality app.

Interested artists are encouraged to email publicart [at] ballarat.vic.gov.ay for a copy of the EOI.

Quotes attributable to Ballarat Mayor Samantha McIntosh:

“Ballarat is dedicated to creating a creative city, backing the talent we have and creating more opportunities to produce and present great work.

We want our creative city to be a place that helps increase our everyday participation with the arts. Creating an augmented reality art walk is designed to be something that you can enjoy regardless of whether you are 8 or 80 – there will be something innovative and new in it for everyone.

By encouraging people to walk around our city, we’re engaging everyone in cultural and creative endeavours – and letting us see our heritage city in a new light.”