Education at the Arts Centre presents Indoor Laneway – an online collaborative arts project between Victorian regional and metropolitan secondary school students.

It is so wonderful to see these young students bouncing ideas around. They are so creative and innovative and I am loving the vitality that surrounds the project. There is a lot of dialogue going on about the actual exhibition space and how we might use it to display the very large, diverse and amazing art mountain that has developed from the Indoor Laneway Project.  

Marie Salinger, Art Teacher at Whitefriars College, Indoor Laneway Participant 2009

View the slideshow from the 2009 Indoor Laneway Exhibition below

All exhibition photos by Damian Vincenzi

This year’s Indoor Laneway begins in August 2010

We have three participanting schools this year and they are

• Mooroopna Secondary College
• Hillcrest Christian College
• Rushworth P-12 College

To register your school’s media/art class, contact dan.west@theartscentre.com.au

Browse through the Indoor Laneway archives to view work from the 2009 project. Simply go to the dropdown menu in the above title bar.

2010 Project Outline

Major / Minor
Them is Us is Them

This year’s Indoor Laneway project will explore themes of empathy and equality through creative exchange and collaboration between young people. Born into our biology, birth country, family and history, our particular human attributes either divide or unite us with others. Depending on context, we can be the majority or the minority.

This year’s theme Major / Minor: Them is Us is Them will seek to engage its participants in an online creative project and community exploring equality, empathy, connectedness and exchange between people of varied experiences and backgrounds.

Under the guidance of media artist Eugenia Lim and sound artist and producer Dan West, young people separated by geography and physical distance will engage with each other through the Indoor Laneway blog over the course of Term 3, culminating in a public exhibition on the Arts Centre Forecourt in late September 2010.

The Process

Each Friday morning (depending on how this fits into school timetables) so that students can consider it over the weekend, Eugenia will post a ‘creative task’ on the Indoor Laneway blog for students to complete by Thursday the following week. Each of the four schools will be asked to respond visually OR sonically to the posted task – Eugenia will allocate this and it will change weekly so that each group of students creates an equal amount of visual and sonic work.

Teachers will act as content moderators – all uploading of work should happen during class time. Students can post comments but should always bear in mind that the blog is a gathering place of creative thoughts and ideas – always be respectful and thoughtful with how and what you write.

All students will have access to their school’s existing media facilities and can use a mixture of mediums and formats. Towards the end of the project, the creative tasks will become more ‘remix’ focused as the artworks generated are refined into digital video and audio that will be projected for the public exhibition. Only original work created by students will be showcased however there will be a Creative Commons element to the process where students will learn about CC licensing, sharing and attribution.

For more information, contact dan.west@theartscentre.com.au