From Sept 2024 – Feb 2025, I have been one of the R&D artists selected for the Cultural Accelerator programme, a new collaborative project between Future Everything, MediaCity Immersive Technologies Innovation Hub (MITIH) and Dream Lab, University of Salford to support artists developing work in immersive technologies.

‘Enter Latent Space’ is a WIP audio visual project inviting audiences to step inside and experience a computational ‘latent’ space, opening up the ‘black box of AI’. This artwork will manifest as 

[V2] a virtual prototype built in a games engine and experienced via a VR headset

[V1] a physical spatial sound installation, incorporating sound sculpture, neural synthesis, electronics and  6:1 speaker array

On the programme I have been working on the [V2], learning skills working in Unity games engine to translate my 3d sculptures and build a 360 computational environment. I am experimenting with using Unity as a prototyping environment for a physical spatial sound installation. The idea being to create a 3d visual world to experiment with audience navigation and experience digitally, and test different aesthetics in preparation for the real world installation. Both prototypes will be shared publicly in October 2025 in an exhibition at Seesaw space.

Read about the other artists here: https://futureeverything.org/portfolio/entry/cultural-accelerator/