Jarra Karalinar Steel and Troy Innocent

Can you find your way?

In a rapidly changing world, both place and language have become unstable and unreliable. If you could no longer rely on your phone—how would you navigate your surroundings? Step up to MEMORY CODE and play a game that decodes the sense and spirit of place to give you fresh insights into knowledge, culture, and yourself. Grounded in the past, present, and future of Naarm's waterways, particularly the Birrarung, this installation reveals the complex webs of life it supports.

Rediscover lost memory techniques and restore Kulin languages, essential for regeneration in a world facing climate challenges. In ten years, these life skills may be vital for mental and physical adaptation and survival.

Are you ready to navigate this journey?

BIOGRAPHIES

Jarra Karalinar Steel (AUS) (Boonwurrung, Wemba Wemba and Trawlwoolway) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores her identity, memories, future folklore, Blak Futurism and her lived experiences growing up in Melbourne and living on country surrounded by culture with knowledge passed down through her family and Elders. Her focus in public/community art looks at ways to insert contemporary cultural visual language into the urban and/or digital landscape by reclaiming space and belonging through visual storytelling.

Dr Troy Innocent (AUS) is an artist gamemaker, urban play scholar, and creator. Based at RMIT University, his work connects digital media poetics, creative code, visual language, mixed realities and urban code. Innocent develops augmented reality games that blend physical objects with digital interfaces to reimagine everyday urban environments in playful ways within a diverse range of public spaces from Barcelona to Hong Kong. Working with the city as a material, his 'reworlding' practice explores ways of being that reimagine, reconfigure and reconnect with the world.

Voice recording by N’arweet Professor Carolyn Briggs AM.

Photography credit: Phoebe Powell