Ecstatic City Melbourne is a reinterpretation of the urban monumental. The project unfolded in two parts. The first was a day-long participatory public videotaping and photography event in Federation Square, Melbourne Australia. For the second part, the moat in front of the National Gallery of Victoria was transformed into an active public space through the construction of a “miniplex marina” consisting of three separate video viewing theaters connected by a walkway. Inside each chamber, a program of videos and animations by local Melbourne artists and filmmakers was screened. At night the miniplexes became projection surfaces for the three animations made with the citizens of Melbourne in Federation Square.