Morgan Barnard Speaks about Sentimental Plastics & Digital Media January 17, 2008

Join us on Thursday, January 17, 2008, 7:30pm at the Habeas Lounge, 18th Street Arts Center Studio #2 as we will be listening to New Zealand based digital/mixed media artist. Morgan Barnard, currently residing in New Zealand, teaches at the Victoria University 
School of Design in the Digital Media Design program.
Barnard, will be discussing the various cross-disciplinary approaches to working 
with digital media in a design context. Other subjects discussed will be in digital cinema, experience design, Gaming, physical computing, and 
computational media will also be discussed.

His final topic will be on the art collective he is also 
apart of, Sentimental Plastics. Sentimental Plastics is a council project that was part of Wellington Urban Design week. The project focused on the plastic bag; how people 
use them, what people think about them, how they make them feel, and 
offered solutions on ways to upcycle bags to be re-used rather than 
thrown in the dump. Sentimental Plastics aim was to raise people’s awareness about this common 
object in the urban environment and hopefully make them think about 
how they use plastic bags.

For more documentation and images about Sentimental Plastics, please visit:
http://sentimentalplastics.org

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