Kids' APT7 : In review

36 KIDS’ APT7 AT QAGOMA KIDS’ APT7 ARTWORKS AND PROJECTS DANIEL BOYD HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT 2012 The viewer is put in a position where they don’t have information . . . it’s kind of like an erasure of memory or history in an image or an object. It relates to the processes that governments used . . . disregarding Aboriginal culture and systematically taking their culture away from them. Daniel Boyd Indigenous Australian artist Daniel Boyd uses the dot as a lens through which to view the world. For Kids’ APT7, Daniel presented History is made at night , a multimedia interactive that invited users to reveal information about a concealed image via a screen of dots. Children interacted with the work using touch and motion detection. By giving information to the user in this way, the artist allowed young visitors to engage in the redemptive process of piecing something back together, a virtual representation of an experience shared by many Aboriginal people and their communities. A young visitor interacting with Daniel Boyd’s multimedia touchscreen project History is made at night 2012