Snoösphere
2017, responsive tactile installation
Snoösphere is an expansive, responsive art installation where audiences can roam, touch and explore. It's designed and created with autistic artists, who have a unique, enhanced sense of how spaces perform sensorially and energetically. Its immersive sound, vision, aroma, and touch- and heat-controlled elements affect the entire sensorium, pushing boundaries of engagement and arts access while gaining insight into neuro-diversity.
A gallery-based living lab, Snoösphere designs forward to a fully networked world based on advanced technological and synthesised communication. While the noösphere is understood as the future planetary sphere of mind, Snoösphere additionally promotes a radically embodied and environmental consciousness. Snoösphere is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; the Neilson Foundation; UNSW Galleries; and NIEA, Australia's National Institute for Experimental Arts. 
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Credits
Première season created by Lull Studio with associate artists Dawn-joy Leong, Raewyn Turner and Brian Harris, Marty Jay, Frank Feltham, James Curtis, Jonathon Bolitho, Ed Leckie, Julian Higginson and Kristina Mah. Exhibitions DARKNESS, Island Dynamics, Svalbard, Norway, 2019 The Big Anxiety: festival of arts + science + people. UNSW Galleries Sydney, 2017 Press Snoösphere feature on Lateline, ABC TV Snoösphere on radio 2SER Snoösphere in Artlink Snoösphere in Concrete Playground, also on 'Best Things To Do' lists. week and month Snoösphere on ABC News Snoösphere in Limelight magazine Snoösphere makes worldwide AFP 'Image of the Day' list: e.g. Singapore Straits Times; Egypt Today; AVAX News; MSN Lifestyle; VOA Indonesia Snoösphere on ArtsHub Snoösphere in Sydney Arts Guide Snoösphere in The Daily Telegraph's Pictures of the Week Facebook posts from BuzzFeed (350 shares, 96000 video views) and Concrete Playground (550 likes, 342 comments, 33 shares) Snoösphere review article in The Conversation Sensory Studies journal, events of note Featured in Sydney Morning Herald's review of experimental arts festivals Featured on Ella's list (top children's activities) Events After Dark, artist talk in Snoösphere: Elena Knox and Dawn-joy Leong in conversation Ixi Avila's Anxiety Women's Circle, two-hour workshop in Snoösphere Seminar in Snoösphere: Anxiety and Young People, led by Professor Ron Rapee (OA) Festival launch party Links #snoosphere on Instagram etc. A video walkthrough of the 2017 UNSW Galleries installation Short video of 1st Snoösphere design input workshop with autistic participants Short video of 2nd Snoösphere design input workshop with autistic participants Short video of 3rd Snoösphere design input workshop with autistic participants Two workshop participants, Theodore Eu and Timothy Ng, talk about autistic response to Snoösphere A recap in Chinese by Timothy Ng, participant in workshop 3 and TBA installation Review article by Professor Jacqueline Millner in journal The Senses and Society (Taylor and Francis, UK) |
Photos by Silversalt, Alex Davies, Lindsay Webb