Words Beacon

Overview
Visitors entering the space at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka in Ballarat encounter a four-screen faceted projection that presents the faces and words behind some of the great political speeches in history. 

Fast-paced kinetic typography and illustrative animation bring the eight speeches alive, while common rhetorical devices and patterns underlying each speech are graphically indicated.

As the speeches progress, words intermittently fall from the screen onto the floor in clusters. 

Through the use of low-level position tracking and floor projection, the words on the ground attach themselves to visitors standing in the space and follow their movements.