WBMC and ololo productions are working with ABC TV and the Perth International Arts Festival to challenge the way we look at street art.

Reface, a new interactive website [www.abc.net.au/reface], invites all street artists across Australia to upload their work, a selection of which will be projected onto buildings during the Perth International Arts Festival 2009. Street art all around the world remains controversial and divisive. Is it art? Over two weekends of the Perth International Arts Festival (27-28 February & 6-8 March) Reface will utilise large-scale digital projection to paint the nocturnal city streetscape of Perth.

The Reface project will test whether people’s attitudes to street art are different if the images are impermanent. The Perth International Arts Festival events will also feature the latest in public interactivity with the audience at one projection location able to control the images, ‘paint’ on the side of the buildings using lasers and even use a digital spraycan to ‘paint’ artwork.

The project also calls on all Australians to help build a digital street art map of Australia by simply taking a snap of street art from their local area and uploading it to the website.

Reface is one of two projects commissioned as a result of the ‘iArts’ (interactive arts) initiative, developed by ABC TV, ScreenWest and the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts.

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The City of Perth commissioned us to paint the temporary hoarding surrounding the construction site of the soon-to-be Northbridge Piazza. We took our inspiration from photographs of glowstick sculptures.

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Commisioned by the Town of Port Hedland and with the help of the locals we transformed the South Hedland Skatepark into a spattering of colour.

We were commissioned to paint the front wall of Capitol nightclub for the McKenna Bourbon launch. Lets just say that this project was an important lesson learned shall we?

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While contemplating producing some artwork free-of-charge in a nearby alleyway, I thought to ask the proprietors of the building if I could paint their boring tagged-up wall. They said sure and wanted something in the theme of their resturant. I wanted cash. They handed over a portion of the cash and we produced a painting that really had nothing to do with their resturant.

Shensing painted the flying pigs carrying sheep, Paul Ikin did the goldfish-bowl-headed robot on rollerskates, Hurben painted the parrot-beast-god and Creepy added a massive head. Griv did most of the background. Thanks to the guys at the Sign Store in Joondalup for the Scaffolding.

Shown at the International Symposium for Electronic Art in San Jose, we worked with bio-art group PRION in creating a interactive installation where users would ask a question and ‘receive’ a response from a large petri dish of bacteria. The work involved custom built computer hardware and software and was accessible from the exhibition and via the internet.

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The first Semi-Permanent Conference in Perth, for some reason we got to fill up the Breadbox with a bunch of artwork. Yok, Hobo, Creepy, Hurben, Zero, Shensing.. and some others (please remind us)

The highlight was Josh Davis skating the ramp at the end of the night