Home Economix

Denise Thwaites, Anna Madeleine Raupach, Daniel Savage, Kate Matthews, Jessica Herrington, Fanke Peng, Rochelle Whyte

Research output: Non-textual formWeb publication/site

Abstract

Home Economix is an Australian network of media artists, curators, designers, researchers, creative technologists and writers, exploring digital and mixed reality (XR) interventions in domestic and public space.

Since the COVID-19 global pandemic in 2020, membranes separating domestic and public life have become increasingly porous. We now take meetings from bed among cats and babies, while gingerly avoiding one another’s microbial clouds in public space. Creative community-building has been forced to rapidly adapt to new media and methods of connection in order to make and present work. Can we emerge from this period with fairer, more accessible and inclusive ways to work as artists?

In response to these questions, Home Economix embarked on an 18 month long trans-disciplinary experiment in sharing and developing digital skills and projects in physically distanced, domestic contexts. Inspired by open-source and studio-based approaches, this website documents our decentralized methods of learning and developing work online. It tracks our journey, as we explored the possibilities and challenges of creating more accessible and inclusive spaces online. Part video-diary, part resource hub, we share our questions, failures, processes, bugs and glitches, while demystifying the processes of making art in a peri-pandemic era.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherAustralia Council for the Arts
Media of outputOnline
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2021

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