Early Work & Development

My holographic practice began with capturing light caustics and stencilling stop-motion scenes into holograms. The pattern of these stencils enabled me to spatially animate scenes. With Hover…, 2004 I projected images using mechanical contraptions to scan the holograms with lasers and project animations of a dragonfly-creature. This project doubled as my honours thesis in Applied Physics, exploring the geometry of holographic image projection.

HoloGRAPHIC and MAPPING Projects

In 2006, I created Into the Holographic Landscape at the Center for the Holographic Arts in New York, mapping sequences of photographs into dynamic urban scenes. The following year I assembled 26 friends to shoot the We're all looking series (photographed in Melbourne, printed as holograms in Cologne and New York). These holograms explored how multiple perspectives could be choreographed into holographic scenes to reveal a diagrammatic sense of place.

During this period, I also collaborated with my sister Alice to create the wave collapses, a quantum physics-inspired comic book adventure game played across Melbourne during the 2006 Next Wave Festival in conjunction with the Commonwealth Games.

The role of the camera and hologram in shaping perspective became the focus of my image-making. The exhibition Explorations of the Holographic Gaze (Gallery 175, Seoul, 2010) presented holograms that linked and transformed the movement of the viewer to a visually suggested protagonist. That same year, I served as a Guest Professor at Kun Shan University in Taiwan.

Diving deeper into the perceptual resonance of spatially dynamic holographic images, I completed my doctoral thesis The Emergent Holographic Scene with the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, Architecture+Design, RMIT University, Australia, which was presented with an exhibition at PostX gallery, Belgium in 2011.

In 2012, I developed the map-sharing project Around the Table for the opening of Da Dong Art Center in Taiwan.

My solo exhibition Enfolded Light (2013) was presented across two venues in Berlin: Direktorenhaus and Lehrter Siebzehn.

Collaborative, PLACEMAKING AND Curatorial Work

From 2013-2020, I focused on curatorial projects and mentoring artists as Creative Director for the Center for the Holographic Arts in New York. Beyond curating exhibitions, I used holographic images and maps to document the multi-perspective experience of art events and expeditions.

Throughout this period, I collaborated with various artists and groups—including Banditfox, Flux Factory, Swimming Cities, and Brooklyn Pirates—encouraging people to explore the perceptual experience of place through participatory art and installations.

In 2021, I joined Lake Macquarie City Council to launch the Multi-Arts Pavilion mima a digital arts space located in a park and develop the strategic approach for the Lake Precinct, including securing investment and supporting artists to revitalise the MAC yapang Sculpture Park on Awabakal Country, Australia.

I am currently a Creative Research Fellow exploring media architecture, participatory image making and playable environments as part of Edith Cowan University’s move into a new digitally enhanced campus in the city of Perth, Western Australia.

Academic & Teaching Experience

My practice-based research and teaching spans art, physics, and design. I have developed courses related to holographic art, lens-based imaging, light art and digital media. My academic teaching has involved lecturing, seminars and studio-based learning at several institutions:

• RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

• Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany

• Korea National University of Art

• Kun Shan University, Taiwan

• Netherlands Film Academy

• Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

• Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia

Through my work, I continue to use hundreds of photographs and videos to make holographic scenes that capture the intertwined dynamic of urban gaze, transforming how we perceive and interact.