Digital Environments and Public Art Projects with Simon Grant from Verb

Verb Syndicate is a studio of ‘creative engineers’ — unique minds who design live events, websites, branding, video, multimedia and graphic arts on a project-by-project basis.  In 2008, they opened the studio door in Wollongong, a city at that time going through transformation from an industrial port hub. In a bid to re-think how a city infrastructure could collaborate with the creative industries, the Verb Syndicate team spent the next decade collaborating with government, academic institutions, tourism boards, developers and cultural planners over a range of projects to build artistic capability at scale. The result was a flurry of arts and music festivals, a hive of retail and tourism activity and a booming, self-sufficient cultural scene, largely driven and supported by those in the Wollongong wider area. Their Wonder Walls street art exhibition still runs each year in the city.