Kingborough Community Hub March Studio
Sometime in the 1990s, the cyber-prophet William Gibson proclaimed, “The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.” Gibson’s pithy maxim is about the uptake of technology and the global disparities created by wealth and location. There is something about Tasmania, and in particular Hobart, that speaks to Gibson’s trope. In Tasmania, an exciting future that has already arrived presses up close with an incontrovertible socioeconomic unevenness.
Tasmania’s radical and optimistic future is broadcast through its world-famous culture and ecology – from the bravado of annual events like Dark Mofo to pristine World Heritage-listed landscapes. In parallel, there is a cautionary tale about a future that is defined by socioeconomic disparity. The average
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