Participants

The following artists and filmmakers have been selected to participate in Dome Lab 2010:


Michael Angus | QLD
Michael Angus is an award winning  documentary filmmaker with a background in theatre and community cultural development. Following on from his recent collaboration with artist Murray Fredericks on their documentary  “Salt”, he is currently researching and developing an immersive narrative project in Greenland called Nothing on Earth.

Michele Barker | NSW
Michele is an artist and academic working in the field of new media arts. Her work focuses on the relationships between new media and issues of perception, subjectivity, genetics and neuroscience. Her work, including the interactive Præternatural and the award winning multi-channel Struck, have been curated into multiple international and national exhibitions and festivals.

Mark Bolotin | NSW
Mark is an award-winning director, multimedia practitioner and the founder and artistic director of Synarcade Audio-Visuals. He has created numerous large-scale interactive work including “Emergence: Build Your Own Being” (2007: Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Arts House, Canberra Street Theatre). Synarcade’s current new multimedia work is a twelve-headed, holographic band called “The Lumiphonic Creature Choir” to be premiered in 2011.

Grayson Cooke | NSW
Grayson is an interdisciplinary scholar, media artist and Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Media at Southern Cross University, NSW. He has performed live audio-visual works in Australia, New Zealand, Italy and the UK and has published academic articles in numerous print and online journals. He holds an interdisciplinary PhD from Concordia University in Montreal.

Yvette Coyne | WA
With a background in film production, Yvette has spent the past two years immersed in short film funding and development. Recently she embarked on an interactive sound art installation project, wanting the environment of the installation to be encapsulating and immersive – a dome environment was perfect. She is interested in bringing my film production background into the workshop and exploring the possibilities of narrative for a full dome production.

Teresa Crea | SA
Teresa has an extensive background as a writer, director and creative producer across a variety of media – including performance, live art, media (radio and television drama), hybrid and interdisciplinary arts. Teresa has written and directed over thirty such productions and her work has been presented nationally and internationally. She is currently researching narrative and immersive experience design.

Sarah-Mace Dennis | NSW
Sarah is an interdisciplinary practitioner working at the intersections of narrative drama, experimental cinema, performance art, poetics and contemporary theory. Her film Rebel Wessex was developed as part of Metro Screen and Screen Australia’s Raw Nerve (2009) and her dance film Mondo Ghillies was commissioned for Next Wave’s Private Dances (2010). She is undertaking a PhD in practice-based research at the School of English, Media and Performing Arts, UNSW. [Image by Richard C Bell]

Martin Fox | VIC
Martin has worked professionally in the TV and film industry as an editor and post production supervisor for 25 years. His focus on storytelling has led to vast experience in post production with skills in sound recording and time-lapse photography. Over the last 10 years he has focused on working with novice film makers, often outside of the mainstream, and collaborated to bring special interest stories to television audiences.
Lindi Harrison | NSW
Lindi Harrison has edited award winning feature films for cinematic release, documentaries for local & international television broadcast, video installations for museum & art gallery exhibition & large format pieces for display in public spaces. Her objective is to touch, move & inspire audiences. She has worked in international television distribution, project managed large media rich websites & was president of the Australian Screen Editors Guild 2008-9.

Sohan Ariel Hayes | WA
As media artist and percussionist, Sohan directs and collaborates short films and expanded cinema projects, with a recent interest in developing and deploying new technologies and custom-made physical interfaces. Using projections, sound, internet, mobile technologies, sensors and other techniques and devices, his works aim to provide spaces for ‘communion through playful interaction’.

Chris Henschke | VIC
Chris is an artist who has been working with digital media since 1987. His main areas of research are in sound and visual relationships, interactivity, and art science hybridisation. His artworks probe the relationships and tensions between matter and energy, light and sound, observation and theory, information and noise.

Donna Kendrigan | VIC
Donna is an artist who explores both media art, animation, installation and design. Independent animation filmmaking has allowed her to experiment with visual storytelling. Her animations have screened in many local and international film festivals. She is currently creating a short animation film Orlando, funded by Screen Australia.

David Kirkpatrick | NSW
David is a sound and multimedia artist based in Sydney, Australia. His practice crosses the boundaries of composition and sound design, video and live visuals, and interactive installation. In 2009 he was awarded an Australia Council ArtStart Grant, followed in 2010 by support through the Australia Council’s Digital Culture Fund.

Claire Leach | WA
Since completing her Bachelor of Arts in Media in 2004, Claire has filmed projects all over the world and teaches filmmaking to children in remote communities. Interested in pushing the boundaries of media, she has been involved with an immersive dome platform educational project for children to learn about our indigenous cultural history.

Michela Ledwidge | NSW
Michela is an award winning artist, entrepreneur and internet pioneer (MOD Films, MOD Productions, Rack&Pin). Since setting up the first web site in NSW in 1993 she has worked on a wide range of projects around the globe including the BBC iPlayer service and the multi-platform children’s TV series dirtgirlworld.

Robert Pickles | NSW
Robert is a writer/filmmaker and inclined, hemispherically, to seek out new ways of telling stories. He has been a short-listed winner of the following: Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook Award. London Fringe Short Fiction Award. Unbound Press First Novel Award. He learnt his craft with Channel 4 and the BBC.


Paul Ricketts | WA
Photographer, videographer, and graphic designer with Centre of Learning Technology, The University of Western Australia. Over 20 years experience in broadcast, print, and multimedia design. Previously worked with the ABC, Beyond International Group and educational institutions in Perth. Centre of Learning Technology produces high quality video, multimedia and printed resources for educational purposes.

Jeffrey Skinner | WA
A traditional filmmaker with an eclectic background in challenging technology, Jeff has spent the last 2 years developing FULLDOME 360 production and technology. He is currently producing a series on ethno-astronomy that will be released in HD and 4K 360degree fulldome format,  including an episode on Australian indigenous astronomy.

Lindy Taylor | SA
Lindy is a Producer and Script Developer who recently returned to Australia after spending 9 years in London heading companies specializing in cutting edge documentaries, scripted programming and ARGs. Lindy firmly believes that the foundation to any great project, regardless of the medium being used, is solid storytelling and a well-developed script.

Matthew Tierney | VIC
m. Leaf-tierney currently works with sound, projected image and installation to explore variations of the alien. In a series of media arts projects informed by science fiction, expanded cinema and broad esoteric and rational sciences, Leaf-tierney employs a rich collection of shape, sound & image to create hypnotic, abstract cinemas.

Julie Turner | NSW
Julie has fifteen years’ experience in the film/TV and multimedia industries. She has extensive script and development experience on series, shorts, animations, documentaries and interactive artworks. With a passion for great story-telling and strong creative teams, Julie works with Sydney’s Onion Media on factual, comedy, animation, gallery and trans-media projects.

Tanya Visosevic | WA
Tanya is an interdisciplinary artist, screen critic/theorist and educator. The formation of a revolutionary audiovisual culture via digital technologies is embodied by much of Visosevic’s creative undertakings, from her interactive mobile phone performances, through to Bio-Kino’s The Living Screen project (SymbioticA).
Visosevic is a film and video lecturer at Edith Cowan University.

Daniel Walsh | WA
Dan is a young filmmaker working in the field of cinematography. Dan has recently shot several short films, music clips and live gigs using the new HDSLR range of cameras and also on the RED camera. He is excited to expand his knowledge in new technology and how it can enhance visual storytelling.

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