Another World 🌳🐝🪷

An interactive augmented reality artwork originally launched at the Getty Museum and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, was later expanded to incorporate a large-scale physical installation commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art for its Another World: Family Festival.

The installation is grounded by tactile, sculptural forms. Soft, organic structures reference granite rock formations shaped over millions of years by volcanic forces in Langeac, France. Beneath them, expansive hand-tufted rugs depict aerial views of Australia's desert landscapes, revealing surfaces marked by fossils, ancient geoglyphs, and geological memory. These materials offer an embodied experience of deep time, asking us to consider the land as archive and teacher.
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⁠Floating above, two large-scale kinetic inflatable sculptures move gently in space. Their surfaces are patterned with intricate lichen textures, blending elements of plant, animal, and microbial life. These hybrid organisms evoke resilience and symbiosis, inviting reflection on the interconnected systems that support life on Earth.
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At the heart of Deep Field is an augmented reality and sonic experience. Using a custom-built iPad Pro app, visitors draw fantastical plant parts that bloom instantly into immersive 3D structures. The designs echo patterns found in nature, such as fractals and the Fibonacci sequence. As people of all ages contribute their creations, a collective digital landscape begins to take shape—one rooted in collaboration, curiosity, and care.

A responsive soundscape composed by The Listening Planet surrounds the space. It evolves with audience movement and includes a layered composition of field recordings from endangered, extinct, and elusive species. The audio also features meteorological sounds, melting glaciers, and the vibrations of ant colonies, forming an acoustic ecology that is both haunting and hopeful.

Together, the physical and digital components of Deep Field create an environment that is at once playful and reflective. It is a living system shaped by participation and collaboration, inviting visitors. of all ages to imagine new ecologies, listen more closely, and inhabit the world with renewed wonder.