International Conference

Intersection of Art, Technology & Place

Sept/Oct 2020. At CODAsummit Virtual 2020 Gill Gatfield presents 'Native Tongue - A Taonga / Treasure', exploring how creative use of digital technology is redefining and expanding the fields of sculpture and public art. In an alchemy of old and new, the artist carved the totemic 3m/10ft high sculpture Native Tongue from a prehistoric wood recovered from a native forest which was buried at the end of the last Ice Age in Aotearoa New Zealand. Seeking to extend the ideas, form and mana of Native Tongue, she created the sculpture's alter-ego using state-of-the-art extended reality tools to realise Native Tongue XR, a spirit figure that can travel the world.