WORK — PERNICKETY SPLIT

EMBODIED/MISEMBODIED (2023-4)

A lecture performance exploring biological and technological anatomies of disability and glitch, spoken and live-coded by artist Ben Joseph Andrews accompanied by a movement performer.

TURBULENCE: JAMAIS VU (2023)

The first of four chapters, an intimate mixed-reality docu-essay exploring the phenomenon of derealisation and depersonalisation. Winner of the IDFA DocLab Award for Best Immersive 2023, and part of the Venice Film Festival’s Best of VR program 2024.

Gondwana (2022)

A durational VR experience that runs over 24 hours, GONDWANA is a constantly-evolving, data-powered virtual ecosystem chronicling our possible futures.

STARLESS (2017)

Part immersive theatre, part ritual of rebirth: a 20-minute journey reimagining the near-death experience as a multi-sensory VR performance.

An oil painting of a woman wearing headphones in an alien environment, observing a strange and impossible 3D shape, by the artist Ben Tankard

ALLTHESTARSTHEYBLEEDTOGETHER (2016)

A multi-sensory sci-fi odyssey, blended with live performance. 10mins, Oculus Rift in live exhibition space, with live score

An orange universe of bubbles and light have been created from the burning of celluloid, for VR experience The Moon Is Gone and All The Kings Are Dead

MOON IS GONE & ALL THE KINGS ARE DEAD (2016)

An abstract, performative interrogation of the role of traditional screen media in the virtual space. 3mins, Samsung GearVR in live exhibition space.

Tariro Mavondo, a dark-skinned woman with straight black hair in a bun, large silver hoop earrings and wearing a top with a bright yellow sunflower pattern, sits against a white brick background, in an interview for the web series her words

HER WORDS (2016-2019)

A web-based interview series sharing the stories of women from around Australia, in their own words.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

NYU Tisch School of the Arts Blind Unfolding - Location-based VR and the spaces between (April 2023)

Electric Dreams Adelaide What is environmental storytelling? (February 2023)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Creating impact through environment (September 2022)

University College London Spatial storytelling in Gondwana (September 2022)

Sheffield Doc/Fest What can the metaverse offer documentary? (July 2022)

ACMI Meet The Makers (September 2021)

Heide Museum x Experimenta VR Symposium 2020 (keynote) (February 2020)

Screen Forever Demystifying Making VR Films (moderator) (November 2019)

Melbourne International Film Festival What is Virtual Reality Now (moderator) (August 2019)

Australian Centre for the Moving Image How to Compete in VR (panellist) (November 2018)

Facebook Australia Future Storytellers and VR for Good (panellist) (November 2018)

Academy Xi VR 101: Design Principles for Virtual Worlds (moderator) (March 2018)

Australian International Documentary Conference Getting Seen in VR (moderator) (March 2018)

Experimenta x Melbourne Festival VR and Empathy (October 2017)

Melbourne Knowledge Week Art + Tech (May 2017)