Friday Day 34

An early start again and Claire drives me to Melbourne with luggage. I meet Darren Tofts outside ACMI and we exchange mutual knowledge of friends and projects-he generously gives me a copy of his last book and I promise the same when published, Luckily Alessio the chief curator at ACMI passes and I am able to pitch the idea of putting the Mobile Audience on as a show in 2009. He is keen on the idea and shows me around the extensive facilities, which include a showcase of local school and college talent , professional broadcast studio and an extensive games area. We have lunch with Linda Williams and Simon Perry –who has made some impressive public installations and is definitely on the same wavelength. Linda is happy to include the new installation in the show she is curating for the RMIT gallery in autumn 2008. Claire then drives us to see a rapid-prototyping facility in Hawthorn with a sculpture exchange project in mind. It is impressive and has the latest tools from Israel which are even more accurate and economic than stereo-lithography. Everything seems to be do-able today!

I grab a cab to Jon’s and we have another farewell Malay takeaway.