Another World 🌳🐝🪷

Created especially for the 6th floor at MoMA and presented as part of Another World: Family Festival, this immersive installation invites audiences into the evolving landscape of Deep Field. Imagined as a space where physical and digital worlds converge, it features soft sculptures inspired by granite formations shaped by ancient volcanic activity in Langeac, France, large handmade rugs mapping the aerial topography of Australian desert landscapes — rich with fossils, petroglyphs, and ancient geoglyphs — and two suspended kinetic sculptures: hybrid life forms mapped with intricate lichen patterns.

Blurring the boundaries between terrestrial, marine, animal, and plant life, the installation layers personal landscapes with imagined ecologies, inviting visitors of all ages to step inside a playful, vibrant ecosystem.

Deep Field is an interactive AR and sonic experience powered by technology, curiosity, and communal imagination. Participants of all ages are invited to co-create a digital ecosystem where the real, unreal, and wondrous collide, and where invisible plant realms are revealed. Using a custom iPad Pro drawing app, participants illustrate their own fantastical plant parts. Near instantly, their creations bloom into fertile 3D plant structures, joined by others from children across the globe. Newly imagined life forms trail across the floor, and spread across the walls and ceiling. Their growth echoes the mathematical patterns that appear in nature, from fractals to the Fibonacci sequence.

Deep Field is more than an immersive virtual terrain. It transports users through eras, environments, and bodies, helping them consider the interconnectedness of living organisms. Using the app’s UV mode, they’ll perceive the world as pollinators—butterflies, bees, bioluminescent fireflies—observing the vivid UV patches on flowers that cannot be seen by humans.

A multichannel soundscape by The Listening Planet evolves and shifts as audiences move, layered with the rich, organic audio collected from endangered, extinct, and difficult-to-detect species. (The Listening Planet has one of the world’s largest natural sound collections, having captured 90,000+ sounds in 55 countries.) Layered with meteorology sounds, melting glaciers, the thrum of ant colonies, and more, the ever-changing composition ebbs and flows like earth’s ghosts, present and absent at once.

As the threat of widespread biodiversity loss looms larger than ever, Deep Field invites children to engage with forgotten worlds anew: to shift perspectives, to listen and learn, to call a wondrous future into being.