Exhibited at: Burning Seed 2018 festival

Collaborators: Cass & Lachlan

Description:

A 4x4x2m box is decorated inside and out to look like it is something you would find in a simple 3D graphic.

Participants enter one at a time, where they are given a VR headset. When the headset is worn, the visible virtual room matches the one the person was just in – and 3D depth mapping cameras are used to represent the person’s body in the room too. Once the person has adapted to this, they lie down on a cloud, and then the viewpoint is drawn out so that the person is now looking down from the ceiling at their own body. Then their body is dissolved (in VR, not in real life) and blows away like dust. The VR experience then does a bit of flying through space before returning to the room, where they now watch their body reform. The viewpoint then descends until it is inside the body again, looking out.

Participants found this experience to be intense, and there was a line outside of people waiting to enter at all hours we were running it. The main issue we faced was that only 4 four people per hour could get through the experience. (A ten minute experience plus a few minutes of setup)

Exhibited at: Burning Seed 2019 festival

Collaborators: Solo project

Description:

A billboard-like trapezoid-shaped panel approximately six square meters in area, plus a separate short column with a control panel on top. A number of 40x40x40cm cubes are on the ground, for seating. They glow with light.

The control panel contains four knobs and a couple of switches. Their purpose is not labelled, but participants are encouraged to experiment.

The billboard displays uniform, intensely saturated light, which pulses and changes colour, according to the settings on the control panel. There is also a predetermined automatic sequence that can be enabled when participants are not actively engaging with the controls.

The control panel and its column have some animated LED lighting, to highlight that the panel is there, and the direction of the animated lighting hints that the controls are related to the main billboard.

Participants are intended to stare into the billboard, so it takes up all of their vision. The pulsing and changing colours are intended to (safely) overload the retina, resulting in the brain finding abstract patterns and movements from nothing.

Exhibited at: Esoteric 2023 festival

Collaborators: Glenn, Axel, Aidan

Description:

Four trees are wrapped with reclaimed materials, lighting, and water/bubble systems to present an alien appearance – biomechanical trees glowing under UV light. People are free to wander amongst them, with seating present.

Exhibited at: Underland 2024 & Underland 2025 festivals

Collaborators: Leigh, Dale, Beth, Nikki

My roles: Metal fabrication, 3D printing, laser cutting, animated lighting, power system.

Description:

A six-sided column of hieroglyphs is topped with a bowl of pouring water (recirculated from a hidden pond base), while fire also burns from on top of the water. The light behind the hieroglyphs is animated. The pillar is surrounded by a garden of UV-reactive fake flowers. The hieroglyphs and top symbol are inspired by two sources: The Fifth Element film, and the symbols representing the principles of Burning Man.

The following year a different version was brought to the festival, modified to be lower maintenance by removing the fire and water elements, and converting to a battery system. Some parts were replaced with improved UV reactivity, and the animated lighting was improved, since it was now the main effect.

Exhibited at: Underland 2025 festival

Collaborators: Glenn Todd

My roles: Power & animated lighting

Description:

A kinetic interactive structure, featuring a six-way see-saw arrangement, and animated lighting.