Where Whispers Walk is an interactive video installation that responds to the changing landscape of the Brisbane river. Developed through a collaboration between Sarah-Mace Dennis, Svenja Kratz and Archie Moore, the work uses emerging technologies to ‘imagine’ past, present and future visions of Brisbane’s central waterway

A video camera positioned in close proximity to the projection senses viewers’ movements as they walk through the space, allowing animated characters that are hybrids of natural elements, introduced species and industrial machines to attach to, and follow people’s movements. Fragments of text that tell stories of the river also attach to viewers, with different stories and ideas about the river generated depending on where and how they move in the space. The longer viewers stay in front of the projection, the more complex and layered the stories become.