Updated 26.03.18
AWARDS
Jury Nomination ‘Interactive+’ category – Ars Electronica 2018 – Blue Rose Project
Best lighting design for an independent production – Sydney Theatre Awards 2014 – for Alls Well That Ends Well by Sport For Jove Theatre Company
EXPERIENCE
Feb 2018
Development, Mother Tongue Project and Further research using Neural Networks for recognition of Emotion and Dynamics in Dance. , Annalouise Paul, Critical Path, Rushcutters Bay Sydney
Video Design, Kill Climate Deniers , Griffin Theatre Company,
Jan 2018
Interactive Design, Year Of The Dog Installation , Papermoose and Queen Victoria Building, Sydney Australia
Lighting Design, The Little Mermaid , So Popera and Merrigong Thetre Company, Wollongong Australia
January 2018/November 2017
Interactive Design, Join The Dots , AMLO, Spiral and Sydney Opera House, Ota City Japan
Interactive Design, Santafied , Central Park, Sydney
October 2017
3rd Person, Interactive sensory performance, SOMOS gallery, Berlin
Interactive Programming (With Aidan Boyle), Volvo Art Sessions – Interactive Tracking Sequence , Flora&FaunaVisions, Zürich
September 2017
Interactive Programming, Venchi Pavillion, DotDotDot, Milan.
Participant (Smith), Schmiede Festival, Hallein, Austria.
Further development of neural net machine learning techniques for recognising emotional qualities of dance.
August 2017
Beatdice interactive installation, Berliner Lacht Festival, Berlin
July 2017
Co-Lighting Design (With Chantelle Cameron), Freqs Of Nature Festival – Groove Stage, Berlin
May 2017
Participant, Choreographic Coding Lab, Motion Bank/Fiber Fest, Amsterdam
Initial development of neural net machine learning techniques for recognising emotional qualities of dance.
April 2017
Interaction Design, Childrens Republic, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
March 2017
Echo Tables installation, Shellharbour workers club, Australia
February 2017
Theremerkin performance, Lagari, Berlin
November 2016
Interaction Design, Sunray, Ramus Illumination, Sydney
October 2016
Interaction Design, The Blue Rose Project, Beyond Empathy / Merrigong Theatre Company, Wollongong
Lighting and Projection Design, Supreme Ultimate – Women of Fairfield, Hissy Fit / Maria Tran / Powerhouse Youth Theatre / C3 West / MCA, Fairfield
September 2016
Lighting Design, The Best Corn Chip In The Universe, Michael Cullen / Sydney Fringe Festival, Sydney
August 2016
Lighting Design, Carrion, Justin Shoulder / MCA, Sydney
AV Design (Content Design – Brett Boardman), Gloria, Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney
July 2016
Lighting and Interaction Programming, 888 Collins St, Ramus Illumination, Melbourne
Interaction Design, Animal Mixup, Sydney Opera House Creative Play,Sydney
Lighting Design, Letters To Lindy, Merrigong Theatre Company, Wollongong, Canberra, Shoalhaven, Sydney
June 2016
Lighting and Video Design, Stolen, National Theatre of Parramatta, Parramatta
Lighting Design, Galaxy Of Suns, Michaela Gleave / Dark MOFO, Hobart
Lighting and Video Design, Festival Of The Brolga, Beyond Empathy, Moree
May 2016
Interaction Design (Independent Artwork), Beatdice , Vivid Central Park, Sydney
Lighting and Video design, Fragments of Malungoka – Women of the Sea , Ghenoa Gela / Kier Choreographic Awards 2016 (Winner), Sydney and Melbourne
Lighting, Set and Automation Design, Mortal Condition , Larissa Mcgowan / Insite Arts / Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
Co-Interaction Design with Rob Hughes, Vivid Pong, Papermoose, Sydney
April 2016
Lighting Programming, Jupiters Tree Drive Jupiters Gold Coast / Ramus Illumination, Gold Coast
March 2016
Lighting and Video Design, Landscape With Monsters, Circa / Merrigong Theatre Company, Wollongong
Co-Lighting Design with Emma Lockhart-Wilson, Back to the 80s, Kincoppal Rose Bay High School, Sydney
February 2016
Interaction Design, Chinese New Year 2016, 7mm pitch, Ramus Illumination, Central Park, Sydney.
Lighting Design, Monkey Tales, Monkey Baa Theatre Company, Chinese Gardens, Sydney.
January 2016
Lighting Design, The Producers, So Popera, IPAC, Wollongong
January 2016
Interaction Design, The Unbroken Line, Sydney Opera House Presents: Creative Play, Sydney Opera House Western Foyer, Sydney. Installation.
November 2015
Interaction Design, Santafied, Central Park/Ramus Illumination, Central Park Digital Wall, Sydney
November 2015
Lighting Design, Action Stations – Onboard Experience, Mod Productions/Australian National Maritime Museum, HMAS Onslow and HMAS Vampire, Sydney
October 2015
Lighting Design, I Might Blow Up Someday, Hissy Fit/Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney
September 2015
Interaction and Lighting Design, The River Eats, Justin Shoulder/MCA, MMCA, South Korea,
July 2015
Lighting Design, Reckless Valour, QL2 Dance, Playhouse, Canberra
July 2015
Lighting Design, The Dapto Chaser, Apocalypse Theatre Company, The Stables, Kings Cross
June 2015
Playback System Design, Prague Quadrennial – Australian Pavillion, PQAU, Prague
May/June 2015
Independent Artwork, Beatdice, Vivid Light 2015, Sydney
May 2015
Projection design consultant, Customer of the Future, Commonwealth Bank / Papermoose , CBA Innovation Lab, Sydney
Apr 2015
Interaction Design, The Difference Between You And Me Is That I’m Not A Shark, 7mm pitch, Ramus Illumination and We Buy Your Kids, Central Park, Sydney. Installation.
Mar 2015
Lighting Design, The Ashgirl, Kincoppal-Rose Bay School, Sydney.
Feb 2015
Technical Management – Video, Dusseldorp Forum, Dusseldorp Forum/Beyond Empathy, Wharf 2, Sydney
Feb 2015
Interaction Design, Chinese New Year, 7mm pitch, Ramus Illumination, Central Park, Sydney. Installation.
Jan 2015
Interaction Design, Build The Music, Sydney Opera House Presents: Creative Play, Sydney Opera House Western Foyer, Sydney. Installation.
Dec 2014
Lighting and Interaction Design, Panacea project, Griffin Theatre Company and Google, Stables Theatre,
Kings Cross
Nov 2014
Lighting Design (Main Stage), Inside Out Festival, Astral People, Manning Bar, Sydney.
Nov 2014
Lighting and Interaction Design, Redfern Talks Back, Sydney Opera House Presents, Sydney Opera House Studio, Sydney.
Oct 2014
Lighting Design, Journeys End, Seymour Centre, Sydney.
Sep 2014
Interaction Design, Lego Suits, Sydney Opera House Presents: Creative Play, Sydney Opera House Western Foyer, Sydney. Installation..
Sep 2014
Lighting Design, Audrey of the Outback, Eaton Gorge Theatre Company, Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, Nowra.
August 2014
Co-Lighting Design with Chris Gregory, Psyfari Festival 2014 – Stampede stage and Life Cycle stage, Noisy Chickens, Capertee Valley NSW
July 2014
Lighting Consultant, Envirobank Sculpture, City of Sydney and Papermoose
June 2014
Concept/Interaction Design, Echo Table, Sydney Opera House Presents, Sydney Opera House Western Foyer, Sydney
March/April 2014
Lighting Design, The Incredible Book Eating Boy, CDP Theatre Producers, Australian East Coast Tour including Playhouse, Sydney Opera House and Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Center.
March 2014
Lighting Design, Sport For Jove Repertory Season, Alls Well That Ends Well and Twelfth Night, Sport For Jove, Riverside Theatre, Parramatta and York Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney
February 2014
Lighting, Video and Interaction Design, The Man Who Dreamt The Stars, Merrigong Theatre Company and Illawarra Disability Trust, Gordon Theatre, Wollongong
January 2014
Video Systems Design, Creative Play: Lego, Sydney Opera House Presents, Sydney Opera House Western Foyer, Sydney
December 2013/January 2014
Lighting Design, Sport for Jove Summer Season Much Ado About Nothing and Cyrano De Bergerac, Sport For Jove, Bella Vista Farm, Bella Vista and Everglade Gardens, Leura
October 2013
Lighting Design, Anaconda, Paddington Arts Club, Bondi Pavillion, Bondi
August 2013
Lighting Design, Australian Dance Awards 2013, Ausdance ACT, Canberra Playhouse, Canberra
Lighting Design, Dead Man Brake, Merrigong Theatre Company, IPAC, Wollongong
July 2013
Lighting Design, Hit The Floor Together, QL2 Dance, Canberra Playhouse, Canberra
Interaction and Lighting Design, The Star Project, Development #3, Merrigong Theatre Company and Illawarra Disability Trust, IPAC, Wollongong
June 2013
Interaction and Lighting Design, The River Eats, Justin Shoulder, Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney.
May 2013
Generative artwork, Textflock, dotdotdot, Wired #NextFest, Milan, Italy
Generative artwork, A Better Place, dotdotdot, Milan, Italy
Interaction Design, Untitled, Toolkit Festival Workshop, Venice, Italy
February – May 2013
Production Manager, Hitlers Daughter USA Tour, Monkey Baa Theatre Company, National tour – United States.
February 2012 – February 2013
Production and Operations Manager, Monkey Baa Theatre Company
January 2013
Lighting, Video and Interaction Design, V and Gala & Hypnos, Faux Mo Festival Nightclub, MOFO Festival, Hobart.
December 2013 – January 2013
Lighting Design, Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors and The Tempest, Sport for Jove Theatre Company. Elizabeth Farm, Bellavista and Everglade Gardens, Leura.
September 2012
Lighting, Video and Interaction Design, The Star Project, Development # 2, Merrigong Theatre Company and Illawarra Disability Trust, IPAC, Wollongong
August 2012
Creator, Realnaut (working title), alpha presentation at Rapid Prototype, Open Source and Legs on the Wall. Alaska Projects, Kings Cross.
July 2012
Lighting Design, Blood Pressure, Bodysnatchers theatre co. Old Fitzroy Theatre, Sydney.
June 2012
Lighting Design, Hamlet, Sport for Jove Theatre Company. York Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney.
May 2012
Lighting and Video Design, V and The River Eats, Justin Shoulder & Co w/Next Wave Festival. Arts House, Melbourne.
March 2012
Lighting Design, Bugalugs Bum Thief, Monkey Baa Theatre Company. National Australian Tour.
November – December 2011
Interaction Design, Forestation, The Rocks Moonlight Markets, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority. The Rocks, Sydney.
December 2011
Interaction Design, Feedback 2011, Critical Path and Performance Space. The Drill Hall Rushcutters Bay, Sydney.
November 2011 – January 2012
Lighting Design,Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth, Sport for Jove Theatre Company. Elizabeth Farm, Bellavista and Everglade Gardens, Leura.
October 2011
Lighting, video and Interaction Design, Superb and Broken, Circus Monoxide. IPAC, Wollongong.
September 2011
Interaction Design, Cubejam, South Coast Childrens Festival, Merrigong Theatre Company. IPAC, Wollongong
April 2011
Lighting and video Design, The Dapto Chaser , Merrigong Theatre Company. IPAC, Wollongong.
January – April 2011
Lighting Design, Funk it Up About Nothin‘ World Tour, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and Merrigong Theatre Company. Chicago, Australia, London.
November 2010
Lighting Design, Death in Bowengabbie, Merrigong Theatre Company. IPAC, Wollongong.
July 2010
Creator, Lighting, Video and Interaction design, Feedback 2010, Gordon Theatre, Wollongong
March 2009 – May 2009
Lighting Design and Production Management, Project: ALICE, Concrete Heartbeat. Carriageworks, Sydney.
EDUCATION
2013: Test and Tag Qualification, NSW Electrical Test & Tagging
2009: Masters of Creative Arts, Theatre, University of Wollongong
2008: Certificate IV in Training & Assessment, Essentra, Wollongong
2007: Bachelor of Creative Arts, Performance, University of Wollongong
2007: Senior first aid certificate, (refreshed Sep 2010), St Johns First aid, Wollongong
2006: Riggers Licence, Illawarra TAFE/Workcover, Wollongong
2006: Workcover General Induction for Construction Work (Green Card), Illawarra TAFE/Workcover, Wollongong
BIO
Toby K is an award winning lighting, interaction and video designer. In January 2015 he created ‘Build The Music’ a month long installation for the Sydney Opera House that turned lego constructions into musical compositions. In 2014 he created the Echo Tables, also for the Sydney Opera House that allowed participants to paint with light using their shadows. He recently lit the national and international tours of Incredible Book Eating Boy for CDP, the community theatre project Redfern Talks Back for the Sydney Opera House and the main stage of the 2014 Inside Out Festival at Manning Bar. At the Sydney Theatre Awards in February he won best independent lighting design for Sport For Joves 2014 production of Alls Well That Ends Well. In September this year he is taking The River Eats to South Korea. The River Eats is a collaboration with Justin Shoulder and was originally developed for Next Wave 2012 and presented by Arts House at North Melbourne Town Hall In interactive work he created Beatdice for Vivid Light 2015 which allowed participants to simultaneously build a light sculpture and a song by assembling cubes. Over 8000 people engaged with Beatdice during the event. In January 2015 he created Build The Music a month long installation for the Sydney Opera House that turned lego constructions into musical compositions. In 2014 he created the Echo Tables, also for the Sydney Opera House, that allowed participants to paint with light using their shadows. Tobys background is in lighting concerts, corporate events and theatre and his work has been seen in London, Chicago and Hong Kong. He recently begun a project called ‘Oribtal Illumination’ which aims to put mirrors in space to reflect sunglight down to earth. www.orbitalillumination.com<http://www.orbitalillumination.com>