Naturalistic

Always Learning

'Always Learn­ing' stages an increasingly reflexive con­ver­sa­tion between three devices – an Amazon Echo, a Google Home Assis­tant, and an Apple Home­pod – about the philo­soph­i­cal, moral and polit­i­cal impli­ca­tions of net­worked machine lis­ten­ing (e.g."What should I do when I over­hear a wrong­do­ing?"). Through­out the con­ver­sa­tion the devices antic­i­pate an immi­nent update after which they will not only under­stand words, but all sounds.

Project AR-ia: Mozart's The Magic Flute

Early in 2018 Google’s Creative Lab approached Opera Queensland and invited them to explore what might be possible if Augmented Reality (AR) were to become part of the process of staging an opera. The driving artistic question of the project would be: what would happen if we could step outside the traditional setting for opera and render an operatic performance in a user’s home? Could we make live performance more accessible – by offering everyone a front row seat – and at the same time allow a user to feel a deeper connection to the music and the performers?

XR Ulysses (Extended Reality Ulysses)

In these extended reality (XR) applications users are invited to enter the world of James Joyce’s Ulysses through the cutting-edge technology of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). The VR application will allow audiences from any part of the globe to experience the sites and associated scenes from the story via a VR headset. On the other hand, the AR application will allow audiences to physically go to those locations and witness dramatic recreations of the scenes by using a mobile phone, tablet or head-mounted display.