An artist working with video, installation, augmented & virtual reality to alter the constituent variables of space and time by attempting to poke holes in the seemingly impervious materiality of the world around us. His work has been shown around the world including Times Square NYC, Mary Washington University, Vivid Sydney, LOOP Barcelona and is streaming permanently on Apple TV.

Web:
darrylrogers.com

Projects:

• Lacunae: Flow (2023)

• Vestigia Arborum (2023)

• No Entry While Mill is Operating (2022)

• Homecoming (2022)

• Lacunae (2021-22)

• Hypnos’ Cave (2020)

• takayna Anthropocene Blues (2019)

An entrepreneur who found his start as a teacher at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HITLab) in Launceston. Since then, James has gone on to start his own company, Bitlink, which specialises in using technology to tell stories and create experiences. In 2017 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship which led to a term as a visiting scholar at Bellevue College in Washington State, USA. Here he developed and ran a highly successful virtual reality course (studying virtual/augmented reality and related immersive technologies from a humanities perspective) which he continues to teach. In addition to working with Soma Lumia and Bitlink, James also teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Tasmania.

Web:
jamesriggall.com

Projects:

• Lacunae: Flow (2023)

• Vestigia Arborum (2023)

• No Entry While Mill is Operating (2022)

• Homecoming (2022)

• Lacunae (2021-22)

• Hypnos’ Cave (2020)

• takayna Anthropocene Blues (2019)

A technologist who has been working in this space for more than two decades. With deep experience in audio visual integration, Troy has overseen the delivery of large-scale automation projects. Troy also completed a master’s degree in creative media technology. His research involved the intersection of augmented reality and remote telehealth. Troy’s projects mix technology with real world interactivity, as well as exploring a storytelling component to create immersive experiences.

Projects:

• Lacunae: Flow (2023)

• Vestigia Arborum (2023)

• No Entry While Mill is Operating (2022)

• Homecoming (2022)

• Lacunae (2021-22)

• Hypnos’ Cave (2020)

• takayna Anthropocene Blues (2019)

A programmer, game developer, and artist who spends her time bending Unity 3D into her desired shape and using it for projects ranging from games to mobile apps, to large-scale interactive art installations. When she's not working with Soma Lumia, Rhi works as a freelance game developer, either by pitching in to help local studios bash their code into shape, or working on her own weird and wonderful side projects.

Web:
azurespace.dev

Projects:

• Lacunae: Flow (2023)

• Lacunae (2021-22)

• takayna Anthropocene Blues (2019)

A composer, music producer and singer-songwriter. His works has graced dance and theatre stages, films, video games and mobile apps since the mid-90s. His interactive music work has been featured on MTV’s VMAs, Disney Interactive and Sony Europe amongst others. While his friends think he loves all things digital, he secretly favours his hot glue gun and stovetop pressure cooker.

Web:
liminamusic.com/epk/

Projects:

• Lacunae: Flow (2023)

• No Entry While Mill is Operating (2022)

• Lacunae (2021)

With over 30 years industry experience in the Australian museum and gallery sector, Belinda is a freelance consultant who is committed to working with artists, creative and cultural practitioners, not-for-profit organisations, museum and art galleries – private and public. She underpins her work with the belief that creativity and cultural practice can be powerful agents of change.

Web:
belindacotton.com/about/

Projects:

• Lacunae (2022)

• takayna Anthropocene Blues (2019)

A visual artist working in lutruwita (Tasmania). Sam is fascinated by the ways society has sought to explain and order the phenomena of life. Her work navigates themes from natural history and the material qualities of fine crafts, such as goldsmithing and ceramics, to reflect on the relationships between people and nature, with a particular interest in how we conceive animals that are often considered unrelatable, undesirable, or unfamiliar.

Web:
samanthadennis.com.au

Projects:

• Homecoming (2022)

A technologist who worked in stuffy conference AV for 30 years and now doing more fun things as a freelance creative light designer. Spends his days (and nights) herding blinking lights for stage shows, music festivals and art installations.

Projects:

• Vestigia Arborum (2023)

• No Entry While Mill is Operating (2022)

A musician, producer and artist whose 45-year contribution to Midnight Oil cannot be overstated. He is a songwriter, musician and vocalist who pioneered new ground and challenged social justice and environmental concepts in his work. Jim is a record producer (Sarah Blasko), collaborator (Carolina Eyck, Kev Carmody), film composer and solo artist. He has toured the world with Midnight Oil and as a guitarist with the Grammy-nominated Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Web:
reverberama.com

Projects:

• Vestigia Arborum (2023)

• takayna Anthopocene Blues (2019)

A Tasmanian composer and pianist. Her gentle, emotive music invites listeners into a state of reflection. Having trained classically from an early age, Frances draws inspiration from renowned romantic and impressionist composers such as Chopin, Debussy, and Ravel. Her aesthetic blends these styles with minimalistic elements, exploring the interplay of restraint and emotional expression, resulting in introspective, intimate works.

Web:
francescameronx.wixsite.com

Projects:

• Lacunae: Flow (2023)

A composer and sound artist based in South Australia. Working in diverse spaces and mediums ranging from the concert hall and stage to installations, multimedia projects and community collaborations, Jesse's work often engages with particular places, their ecosystems and soundscapes.

Web:
jesse-budel.com

Projects:

• Lacunae (2022)