PHD PROJECT

Currently I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Guildhall School of Music & Drama looking at Digital Performance and XR technologies for arts-based wellness. I am a Doctoral examiner and supervisor at the University of Ghent in Belgium and will co-supervise the incoming ADAPT AI PhD cohort in collaboration with Kings College London.

Guildhall is a world leading conservatoire located in the City of London at the Barbican Centre.

ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECT - ARRAY INFINITIVE

GESTURAL AUDIO-VISUALS IN VR

Array Infinitive is an audiovisual VR system in which body movement generates ambient soundscapes and particle-based visuals in real-time across seven spectral environments, progressing chromatically from red through violet. As participants move their arms and bodies, light flows from their hands and sound fills the space around them: a multisensory encounter situated within the lineage of embodied gestural practice, from the theremin and ondes Martenot to Char Davies' Osmose (1995), which first established breath and bodily movement as creative modalities in virtual space.

The work developed through iterative stages of inquiry into shared immersive experience. It began as a small-scale networked VR performance testing whether extended reality could sustain authentic performer-audience connection, with a single performer using live gestural control to generate an audiovisual environment broadcast directly to audience headsets. Research employing validated self-report instruments (MODTAS, 11D-ASC) confirmed that participants experienced meditative absorption and perceptual transformation, and notably that they were unaware the experience was being conducted live by a human performer, raising productive questions about agency, presence, and the cybernetic body.

From this foundation, the work expanded into a hybrid-audience format, presented at CCA Glasgow and IKLECTIK Art Lab, in which fully immersed VR participants and those experiencing large-scale projections and ambisonic sound occupied the same physical space simultaneously. This configuration was designed to examine how shared immersion operates across fundamentally different sensory positions, probing what collective experience means when participants relate to the same work through entirely distinct perceptual modes.

In its current participatory form, audiences become performers, conducting streams of sound and light through their own movement, while others observe, move in and out of immersion, or sit within an enveloping colour-sound bath in the room. International presentation and extensive audience feedback revealed consistent responses: participants reported shifts in mood, perception, and self-expression, with clinicians identifying therapeutic potential and recovery communities describing meaningful emotional benefit. These converging insights underpin the ongoing research programme Moving Music, currently being developed in partnership with a major national charity to investigate the work's effects on wellbeing in recovery contexts.

Full Networked Audience VR Performance, mockup.

Hybrid-Audience Performance, mockup.

Participatory Experience, mockup.

Ammerman Triennial of Art & Technology

Array Infinitive will be presented at the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology's 18th Triennial Symposium, All Too Human, held 26–28 March 2026 at Connecticut College, New London. The symposium is a major interdisciplinary gathering bringing together artists, researchers, and technologists to interrogate what it means to be human in an era shaped by automation, climate crisis, and technological transformation, a context in which Array Infinitive's exploration of embodied agency, perception, and gestural creativity in virtual space finds immediate resonance.

Vibrance Festival of Sound and Light

Presented at the historic church of St Giles' Cripplegate as part of Vibrance, Guildhall Production Studio's new free festival of light and sound across the City of London, the work invited audiences to experience or witness the VR installation across two evenings, 29–30 January 2026. Situated alongside large-scale projection works and site-responsive sound installations throughout the Culture Mile, Array Infinitive offered an intimate counterpoint within the festival: a participatory encounter with embodied gesture and altered perception in one of London's oldest surviving churches.

Science of Consciousness Conference

Array Infinitive was included in the proceedings of the 30th Annual Science of Consciousness Conference (University of Arizona), an interdisciplinary forum bringing together neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, meditation and altered states, machine consciousness, and experiential phenomenology in rigorous inquiry into the nature of conscious awareness.

Roundhouse London

Mindscapes, hosted by Nyangibo Gallery within the Roundhouse London's project space (1–8 December 2023), brought together artists working at the intersection of extended reality and immersive experience, including award-winning French VR director Tatiana Apraxine and artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. The exhibition provided an early public platform for Array Infinitive's participatory format, situating the work within a broader conversation about consciousness, perception, and the expressive possibilities of XR art.

Breaking Convention

OFFICIAL ART INSTALLATION PROGRAMME 2023

Array Infinitive was selected for the official art installation programme of Breaking Convention 2023, the international conference on psychedelic research, science and culture, held 19–21 April at the University of Exeter.

ALPs Conference on Psychedelic Research

Array Infinitive was presented at the ALPs Conference, held at the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices, Geneva, October 2023. The conference brought together an interdisciplinary community of neuroscientists, psychotherapists, and dance and movement therapists, generating rich dialogue around the work's therapeutic and somatic dimensions.

RADIOPHRENIA

A live broadcast performance of Array Infinitive, presented at CCA Glasgow as part of Radiophrenia 2023, translated the work into a radio format in collaboration with composer and sound artist Tom Mudd. Performed live to an in-situ audience, the transmission wove the audiovisual experience together with spoken interviews and Mudd's vocal processing, extending the work's exploration of embodied perception into the acoustic and radiophonic domain.

Interviewees included:

Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai)

Sarah Forrest

David Archibald

Becky Šik

Matthew Docherty

Steven Harrington

Ginny Hutchinson

Lori Rebel

Info about the broadcast:

Colour Organ Cycles, Environment as a Drone

The transmission combined, for the first time, vignettes of speech inspired by Margaret Tait's film Colour Poems; a meditation on Scotland’s changing landscape in the form of short quotes and passages from locals interspersed with live ambient improvisation, created through real-time gestures in the studio. The broadcast referencd Oliveros' humanitarian intentions with listening and 'sonic energy' as she defined it, reconfiguring the subject / object, performer / audience relationship, triggering auditory fantasy, memory and healing.

RADIANCEVR.CO

Happy to announce that Array Infinitive is now part of the Radiance VR Platform. Jump to Radiance profile here.

Glasgow Project Room

Following a residency award, Array Infinitive was installed at the Glasgow Project Room in November 2022. The residency provided space to develop an early participatory iteration of the work, with audiences taking turns to conduct the audiovisual environment — a pivotal step in the evolution of the piece. The installation was expanded with an atmospheric lighting rig and haze, and culminated in a sound bath collaboration with Glasgow Sound Bath.

Demo for University of Glasgow Psychedelic Society

MFA Participant from Glasgow School of Art

Demo for University of Glasgow Psychedlic Society

CCA GLASGOW

The public debut of Array Infinitive took place at the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, immediately following the completion of the first official research study, conducted in the CCA Intermedia Lab. Film documentation by Paradax Period.

IKLECTIK ART LAB LONDON

On 26 July 2022, IKLECTIK London hosted a night of practice-based research bringing together three artists at the intersection of technology, performance, and sound. Anna Nazo, Josefina Camus, and Leslie Deere each presented major new work spanning AI-generated poetry with CGI brainwaves, an ambisonic VR colour-sound bath, and an autoethnographic film navigating the coastal forests of Valdivia, Chile with live feed from South America — a programme that mapped the breadth of emergent practice in live audiovisuals, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and moving image.

BREAKING CONVENTION

Array Infinitive was installed at Juju's Spitalfields, London, as part of the Breaking Convention 2022 social programme, presented as a single-person immersive experience for the purposes of field research.