The Mirror Sphere
Lobwein’s immersive performance under The Sphere at QUT, Kelvin Grove expanded upon the 'total works of art' created by the 1920s avant-garde. This digital reimagining of Bauhaus and Constructivist performances combined digital computer graphics with dance, architecture, sound and narrative, to reflect on the future of virtual spaces in contemporary society.
Characters Lada, Sira, Nero, and the Technician, explored new perspectival planes of virtual embodiment through the dimensional Mirror Sphere. This research was conducted through the School of Creative Practice, Faculty of Creative industries, Education and Social Justice at QUT.
Guy Lobwein is a Meanjin (Brisbane, QLD) contemporary artist currently undertaking his Doctorate of Philosophy at the Queensland University of Technology. His research focuses on the use of expanded reality technologies in contemporary art, such as VR, AR and CGI, exploring how experimental creative practice can generate experiential and critically reflective experiences.
Music: James Halstead
Choreography: Tamara Zurvas
Performers: Clare Dark, Kerrod Box, Maddison Bowyer, Saska Scoon
Costumes: Michelle Hair