Sydney Opera House Creative Play – Lego

Sydney Opera House Presents built a lego structure for their January 2014 creative play program. Children were given free reign to build on vertical plates with a range of classic blocks.  I was commissioned to build several cameras into the structure that would be projected on the nearest wall. As well as live video the cameras took timelapse footage that …

The Man Who Dreamt The Stars Gallery

Malcolm Allison and Alicia Battestini  “Dazzling stars, protruding beams and projected imagery – The senses are definitely stimulated by interactive video projection that amplifies emotion and immerses the audience in the story.” – Dean Margerison, Sydney Arts Guide, Feb 17 2014 “Visually, The Man Who Dreamt The Stars is one of the most spectacular shows I’ve ever seen. The lights and the technical …

The River Eats 2013 Video

The River Eats 2013, presented by Performance Space  “A standout of Melbourne’s 2012 Next Wave Festival, The River Eats is a visually stunning fable of transformation and desire.” Cult Magazine – July 2013 “An audio visual assault that could rival Aphex Twin… a beautiful counterpoint to Shoulder’s live action elements” Pages Digital – Erin Moy – July 8th 2013 Devised, Performed, Costume …

The River Eats

  “A standout of Melbourne’s 2012 Next Wave Festival, The River Eats is a visually stunning fable of transformation and desire.” Cult Magazine – July 2013 “An audio visual assault that could rival Aphex Twin… a beautiful counterpoint to Shoulder’s live action elements” Pages Digital – Erin Moy – July 8th 2013 Devised, Performed, Costume & Set Design: Justin Shoulder Video and 
Lighting …

The River Eats 2013 Trailer

From 3 – 13 July at Carriageworks. Presented by Performance Space. Full info and Buy Tickets Here. Devised, Performed, Costume & Set Design: Justin ShoulderVideo and 
Lighting Design: Toby KnyvettVideo and SFX: Rebecca SteghComposer and Sound Design: Nick WalesCreative Producer and Dramaturg: Jeff Stein

A Better Place

A Better Place is an experiment using lissajous figures generated by a virtual phase correlation meter. Audio manipulated in Renoise and Reaktor. Visuals created in vvvv. Original sample by 43.  Read on for a more detailed explanation of what’s going on.  

VVVV Contribution: TextFlock (Spreads)

* Note – I’ve setup a new blog for articles and contributions like this, click here* I contributed a new module for vvvv, TextFlock.  It’s a very basic particle system that morphs from one text string to another. Download it here from the vvvv site. vvvv is free for non-commercial use. If you want to to learn coding to create …

Toolkit Festival 2013 Workshop – Venice

In May 2013 I participated in an interactive arts workshop as part of the Toolkit Festival in Venice, Italy. The workshop was facilitated by Allessandro Masserdotti from dotdotdot. Toolkit Festival 2013 Workshop Timelapse 

Realnaut – Rapid Prototype 2012

Realnaut is a new independent artwork I’m creating. I presented a first-draft version at the inaugural Rapid Prototype event, held at Alaska Projects in the Kings Cross Car Park, 28th August 2012. Realnaut explores the idea of live editing reality.  It consists of a helmet worn by members of the public. The helmet contains a head mounted display. On top of the …

CubeJam Prototype

Cubejam is an interactive artwork that allows young people to make music. Its first prototype was deployed at the South Coast Children’s Festival 2011. It is inspired by the Reactable tangible music interface. It uses the same open source fiducial tracking engine: reacTIVision. As such Cubejam itself is also open source. I write my code in the vvvv toolkit, which …