Multimedia installation

This is perhaps the most exciting field of my work, and what I would like to dedicate much more time to. I strive to create large-scale, interactive, and public multimedia installations designed to invite collaboration, curiosity, playfulness, and pure ebullience. As a musician as well as visual artist, I love incorporating sound into my pieces. I hope that my installations can encourage the audience to become participants of the piece itself, bridging the gap between art and viewer.

Belly of the Beast

Interactive audio-visual installation

What am I looking at?

We created an ocean scene using a variety of materials including PVC pipes, secondhand fabrics, synthetic fibers, UV and LED lights, and other found materials. As you enter the room, you’re greeted by jellyfish hangs above a large, open-mouthed fish, waiting for its light to be triggered by the audience…

As you approach the fish, you’ll notice a glowing light at the back of its throat—its uvula. There is a sensor embedded in the uvula which is triggered by motion. You’ll find that the tongue of the fish is soft and plush, like a giant bed. Many people loved laying down and enjoying the soothing sounds of the ocean and gentle music in the background.

If you get closer to the uvula, the sounds around you start to distort, becoming bitcrushed. The jellyfish’s UV light also turns on as soon as the uvula sensor is triggered, illuminating things that perhaps you couldn’t see before.

Eventually, if you get close enough, the sounds disappear completely and the light inside the fish turns off. Back away, and the sound and light come back.