BOX OF BIRDS GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE GADIGAL PEOPLE OF THE EORA NATION AND PAY DEEP RESPECTS TO ELDERS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. WE EXTEND THIS RESPECT TO ALL FIRST NATIONS PEOPLES ON WHOSE UNCEDED LANDS WE LIVE, WORK AND CREATE.

WE HONOUR THE FIRST STORY TELLERS, DANCERS, CULTURE MAKERS

Interactive Participation & Experiences

Since 2017 we have been developing 2D & 3D interactive technology that allows for AUDIENCE JOURNEYS WiTHIn BREATHTAKING Performance LANDSCAPES

Our aim is to create a seamless participatory experience that allows hundreds of people to share a digitally interactive and performance environment, and to fully engage and play in that space with other participants.

 Initially conceived for a theatre environment, Box of Birds has potentially a raft of applications from installations, play spaces for children, theme parks, learning environments, cultural tourism and entertainment.

Who we are

BOX OF BIRDS ARE A COLLECTIVE OF ARTISTS,Technologists AND ORGANISATIONS WHO WORK TOGETHER TO CREATE A Digital Play SPACE WHERE THE WONDER of the world can be experienced anew.

WHERE THE IMPOSSIBLE IS POSSIBLE AND FANTASY BECOMES REALITY

 dhiyang gayung-ba

dhiyang gayung-ba (i am here) is a unique collaboration between Box of Birds and NAISDA (National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association) , commissioned by Gosford Regional Gallery. It pushes the boundaries of contemporary First Nations dance and immersive technologies, inspired by stories of NAISDA graduates and the landscape of Darkinjung Country.
 
Created by a team of First Nations and Non-Indigenous Artists led by David Clarkson (Box of Birds) and Independent First Nations Artist Glory Tuohy-Daniell, with cultural supervision by Aunty Bronwyn Chambers, dhiyang gayung-ba can be experienced as both a live performance and an immersive moving image installation. Filmed on Country with recent and current NAISDA graduates and a team of digital artists from Box of Birds, don’t miss this spectacular immersive experience.

27 Jun 2026 - 20 Sep 2026

9:30 AM - 4 PM

Free

Gosford Gallery, NSW,

SIGNAL

• Image by Samuel James Opening night SIGNAL

Join Box of Birds and UTS at Carriageworks, on Gadigal Land, for our exhibition: SIGNAL

Wednesday 4th November 5 pm to 8 pm.

Thursday 5th November to Saturday 7th November 10 AM to 5 PM.

Carriageworks

Bay 19, 245 Wilson St Everleigh, 2015, Sydney.

SIGNAL showcases a cross-section of creative practice research at UTS through new artistic projects and collaborations with Box of Birds at Carriageworks, on Gadigal Land.  The exhibition works are drawn from researchers, higher-degree research students and alumni of UTS.

Presenting the works of over fifteen artists , SIGNAL celebrates Box of Bird’s fifteen years of creative relationship with UTS.

 SIGNAL brings together researchers working across disciplines, including media arts, design, climate futures, legislative activism, fashion and immersive media. These projects share an inquiry-based approach to artistic practice and converge around questions of how technologies expand or constrain our ability to interface with the world through critical explorations of archives and creative technologies including the spectre of generative AI.

Featured artists have explored a range of media and techniques using coding, ‘vibe coding’, textiles, mixed reality, weaving, photography, sculpture, screen, sound and interactive media. Physical and virtual ecologies collide. SIGNAL immerses the audience within a mediated drift marked by fragmentation, distortion, apparition, the holographic and the kaleidoscopic.

Box of Birds, one of the founding resident companies at Carriageworks in 2007, has had an ongoing creative relationship with UTS since 2011 through the Creativity and Cognition Studios and the UTS Animal Logic Academy, in collaboration with NETFLIX Animation Studios. SIGNAL extends this collaboration to the UTS Creative Practice Research Group and the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research.

SIGNAL is curated by Alex Munt and Biljana Jančić (UTS) with Box of Birds as part of a new series presented at Carriageworks. The next exhibition ‘WAVELENGTH’ will take place across December 9-12, 2026.

Participating artists: Bert Bongers, Box of Birds, ochromosonico (Sean Lowry, Gary Warner, Mark Titmarsh), Chris Caines & John Cheeseman, Julia Scott-Stevenson & Matt Hughes, Gregory Ferris, Gail Priest, Cecilia Heffer, Wade Marynowsky, Justin Harvey, Andrew Burrell, Latoya Aroha Rule, Nico Pietroni & Louis Pratt, Lauren Eiko & Nathan mudyi Sentence, Lin Wei, Echo Song, Tsun Yuen Lee, Vicky Qiao, Tom Hardy, Johnson Su and Biljana Jančić.

SIGNAL is presented by the Faculty of Design and Society at the University of Technology (UTS), the Creative Practice Research Group (CPRG) and the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, in collaboration with Box of Birds, at Carriageworks on Gadigal Land.

 Space Play

Space Play enables children and adults alike to experience a joyful sense of interstellar wonderment.

You wave your hands, and a cloud of asteroids surrounds you – triggered by Box of Birds’ unique interactive technology. You see, hear and play with a range of stellar objects in the room.

You fly down to the moons of Jupiter and pass by the rings of Saturn.

Teaming up with with friends, explore space, and delight in moving the planets and the stars.

Space Play is an interactive installation launched by the Box of Birds team. It is designed for large auditoriums for up to 300 people to play in.It recently played the Science Alive Festival in Adelaide S.A.- but it will be coming to a city near you shortly…….

Space Play……. the adventure awaits you……..

Shipwreck Odyssey

Voyage beneath the turquoise waves and coral cays of Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef as the ghost ship Jenny Lind leads you on an adventure into the wild wonders and mysteries of our oceans.

Part theatre show - part playspace immersive installation, Shipwreck Odyssey combines live storytelling and performance with a state-of-the-art responsive projection playscape- inviting audiences to come alive to their love for our blue planet.

Shipwreck Odyssey was first presented at the Australian National Maritime Museum as part of 2023 Sydney Festival. We performed over 100 shows.

Creature Interactions

 Mountain

Box of Birds and Stalker’s 25 minute production designed for festivals and family events.

Mountain: has been seen by over thirty thousand people in Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. It was awarded the John Chataway Award for “Most Innovative Production” of the 2021 Adelaide Fringe.

Mountain has wowed the crowds with its innovative, physical and visual spectacle.

The performance combines aerial theatre with cutting edge interactive performance technology to explore society’s increasing dependence on technology and the effect it’s having on the world and biosphere around us. The four performers seamlessly meld acrobatics, dance and aerials to create a captivating spectacle.

Alongside the show, Mountain also features a projected 2D play space for young and old alike. Directly after the 25 minute performance, kids and adults are invited to rediscover the environment, wildlife and our relationship to it as the stage is transformed into an interactive Australian habitat. It’s the audience’s time to shine as the interactive projection system encourages everyone to be animated, get moving and play along with our giant interactive play wall on the stage.

SMALL BLUE THING

Currently in development in 2026 including a work in progress showing at the Australian Performing Arts Market .

Small Blue Thing is an immersive journey and playful experience about the beauty of our planet.

Travel from earth out into deep space and look back to the awe of our small blue planet floating in the depths of space and time.

Inspiring vistas of the Earth and our Solar System sweep across the four walls of an incredible immersive interactive play space.

Utilising our unique interactive and augmented technologies with aerial performance and storytelling, we aim to create a powerful immersive experience that explores our relationship to our small blue planet.

“Small Blue Thing” will be part love letter to our endangered planet, part interactive exploration and joyful participatory audience experience.

We follow the journey of an urban young First Nations woman living in a distracted and disconnected world to a moment of play, awe and realisation as she experiences the earth and her life on it anew.

Small Blue Thing asks us to revisit and revitalise our understanding of where we are in the larger universe and we invite the audience to playfully take part in the wonders of star fields, the reefs, the waters and the landscapes of our beautiful planet Earth.

My House Your House Me Casa Tu Casa

My House Your House - Me Casa Tu Casa

A live mixed reality transglobal dance party.

My House Your House was a trans-global party featuring Box of Birds (Australia) and Lux Boreal (Mexico).

We worked with some of Sydney’s best underground electronic musicians, live mixed-reality exchanges with dancers in Sydney and Tijuana, interactive audio-visual installations, and aerial performance artists.

All set in our exciting pop-up venue on Sydney Harbour at the atmospheric Australian National Maritime Museum.

Live dancers in Tijuana (Mexico) and Sydney (Australia) captured with 3D LiDAR cameras and dancing in real time with each other across the globe. All to some great sounds from some of Sydney’s leading DJ’s.

 Augmented

Experiments with augmented reality and dance. Undertaken at Critical Path in Sydney late 2022.

Two dancers in real time dancing with their real time virtual selves.

Layer

Layer is a dance / physical theatre/ filmic work co-conceived by Box of Bird artists (Australia) and dancers Katina Olsen, Cloe Fournier and Olympia Kotopoulos . This team is joined by international partners from Groningen in the Netherlands : ShELFISH Productions and WERC. Layer dances the story of three woman, each alone and isolated with multiple cultural identities. Indigenous/ non-indigenous/ Australian/ European. They encounter multiple replications (or layers) of themselves in real, virtual, fragmented and augmented realities. Layer explores notions of replication of self- identity, and the pleasures and fears we stumble upon in our socially distanced COVID selves. Layer is filmed with 3D LIDAR cameras and blends live 3D capture with animation and photogrammetry. The three dancers ,two in Australia , one in the Netherlands, dance together in an interactive filmic 3D space that is both live, projected, virtual and screen based.

Video excerpt from the first work in development November 2020 : Layer

Pitch Deck : Layer

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