Digital Totems

THE OBJECT

A Digital Totem is a freestanding two-metre screen on an architectural truss base, placed in a lobby or concourse. Future Art owns its truss inventory, so a totem can be installed and removed cleanly around a building's schedule.

THE ARTWORK

Each totem shows a curated artwork animated as a short looping work, usually a five-second loop, produced from the artist's original piece with the artist's review and approval at every stage. The animation preserves the original palette, imagery and composition. Copyright stays with the artist.

THE CURATION

Future Art selects the artist for the building and its audience, negotiates the licence directly with the

artist or their art centre, manages the animation production, and handles install and removal. The client receives one curated program, not a catalogue to choose from.

First Nations Digital Totems are commissioned works by First Nations artists, animated and presented

with the artist's approval at every stage. Each work is licensed directly with the artist or their art

centre, cultural review sits inside the production process, and the credit line carries the artist's

Country.

Recent programs include Presten Warren's dual-screen totems at Two Park Street for Reconciliation

Week and NAIDOC, and Amy Allerton's The River of Unity and A Dream Made True at 580 George

Street, both for GPT.

The same program extends beyond the totem format: Presten Warren's lobby

screens at 1 Denison Street for Winten, and Amy Allerton's Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC decals

across World Square for Brookfield.

A First Nations Digital Totem gives a building a cultural moment that is commissioned, credited and

licensed properly, not pulled from a stock library.

Two Park Street, GPT

First Nations Digital Totems, installed May 2026. Artist Presten Warren, two exclusive works, dual-screen concierge installation for Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC. Two-metre totems on owned truss, five second animation loops, sole licence with animation rights.

580 George Street, GPT

First Nations Digital Totems, installed June 2026. Artist Amy Allerton (Gumbaynggirr, Bundjalung and

Gamilaroi), represented by Indigico Creative. Works: The River of Unity and A Dream Made True. Animation rights licensed per building.

George Place, 363 George Street

Digital Totems within Future Visions at George Place, October 2025 to March 2026. New-generation digital artists including Sarah Main.

477 Pitt Street

Digital Totems, March 2026. Artist Stefany Layton, within the Future Visions digital program.

1 Denison Street, Winten

First Nations digital screens for the lobby, May 2026. Artist Presten Warren, direct licence. The screens-in-lobby variant of the totem program, a clean reference for a corporate headquarters tower.

World Square, Brookfield

Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC decals across three buildings, 2026. Artist Amy Allerton via Indigico

Creative. The window-and-door variant of the same First Nations placemaking program, included to

show the totem sits inside a broader curated activation.

THE TOTEM

Two-metre screen on an architectural truss base. Future Art owns its truss inventory, so install and

removal run to the building's schedule rather than a supplier's.

THE ANIMATION

Original artwork animated as a five-second loop, produced from the artist's high-resolution files and

released only after the licence is settled. No advertising, no screensavers, one curated work per totem.

THE LICENCE

Direct with the artist or their art centre. Animation rights are written into the licence with three

standing guard-rails: the original imagery, palette and composition are preserved, the artist retains

review and approval, and copyright stays with the artist.

FIRST NATIONS PROTOCOL

First Nations works are licensed directly with the artist or their art centre, with cultural review and the

artist's approval at each stage, and the credit line carries the artist's Country.

THE REPORTING

Every program comes with a tenant-facing artist story for the building's comms, and on request an

ESG and acquittal pack for DA conditions and placemaking reporting.

Future Art works directly with artists, their representatives and First Nations art centres.

Current collaborations include Injalak Arts (West Arnhem Land), whose national touring exhibition we curate, Indigico Creative, representing Amy Allerton, and First Nations artist Presten Warren.

Our digital roster includes Sarah Main, Stefany Layton, Giant Swan and Mia Forrest. Every work is curated and licensed directly, not drawn from a stock library.