Sports Tech of the Future, TDF + News
New books, films, and a talk to attend
Hello from the grandstand, a locker room, the bench, a paddock watching the peleton zip past or a pub in England watching the goal that sealed the deal.
Skipping the warm-up
Melbourne Conversations: Sports Tech of the Future.
Good Sport will have a stall at this talk this coming Wednesday. We’ll have our latest issues and new book project VISIONS available for purchase.
Wed 17th Jul 2024, 6:00 pm
@ Fed Square
About the talk:
Australia's proud sporting legacy meets cutting-edge home-grown innovation. From AI-driven analytics to immersive VR experiences, explore the ways in which technology is reshaping the sports landscape. How will these advancements enhance athletic performance, improve sports integrity and redefine the spectator experience?
Discover how sports organisations are using tech to revolutionise the field with an expert panel hosted by Russel Howcroft. Hear from Jonathon Bernard, AFL Creative and Innovation Director; Lisa Hasker OAM, CEO of VicSport and ATSN board member; Machar Reid, Head of Innovation at Tennis Australia; and Emma Sherry, RMIT School of Management Dean who specialises in sport development.
Join us as we envision a future where Australian innovation propels human athleticism to new heights, transforming the Olympics and other sporting events of the future.
Ghosts of the Col Du Tourmalet
This year’s Tour De France will feature the Col Du Tourmalet for a 90th time; more than any other mountain pass in the event's history. At the beginning of May, photographer Fergus Coyle set off from Lourdes to ride and photograph the 2115m pass to discover just what its appeal is. Out of season and closed to traffic, it gave a unique view of the climb, laying dormant with the ghosts of cycling past.
Read the full piece via our website:
Visions
Is a limited edition hardcover book and accompanying film about self-discovery, nature, harmony, exploration and rock climbing in Kura Tāwhiti, Castle Hill in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Visions was a project supported by Arc’teryx
Directed and photographed by Ben Clement and Mondo Hays
Designed by Joshua Briones-Yap
Typeface: ABC Dinamo
3D Visuals: Workgroup
196 pages, hardcover, smyth sewn.
Published in 2024.
The book is available and shipping globally at the moment.
Rain On Tartan - An Olympian, architect and filmmakers ode to what a running track feels like.
Rain on Tartan A film by Ben Clement and Catriona Bisset. Tartan — a colloquial term for a polyurethane all-weather track surface. You are invited into what a track feels like: to witness its tides of movement from dawn to dusk, to hear the birds, footsteps, breathing, traffic, spitting, rain. The film features George Knott Reserve, a local public athletics track, home to the Collingwood Harriers. Non- linear, shot over several days, it captures the track’s unique atmosphere, ecology and function as public space. Our collaboration was spurred by Catriona’s architecture master’s thesis, which examined how sport relates to urban space. Athletics tracks are host to diverse yet conflicting activities and interests: the training of recreational & professional athletes, schools & clubs, and private ownership & public access. Catriona explored how to navigate these needs using a variety of methods— interviews, design testing, photography, filmmaking and autoethnography (i.e. her double life as a professional track athlete). Rain on Tartan helped transcend the dominant visual mode of architecture by expressing spatiotemporal concepts of atmosphere and sensory connection to space. Making the film was also an opportunity to talk to the club president, observe track use and consider what elements produce inclusive and valuable public spaces that still meet the needs of athletes. Tracks can seem like intimidating and specialist places, but we hope that our film shows their lively, playful, sometimes disgusting, beautiful personalities, and how publicly accessible tracks can be public squares and gathering places.
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Bye for now.
Team GS