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To make the fantastical a reality…

▸To encourage and embrace social playfulness within the reality of our digital future

▸To explore the relationship between, technology, embodiment and creative imagination.

▸To empower the creative human spark through social interaction, storytelling, ethical and environmental awareness and technological innovation.

Box of Birds is supported by:

 
 
 

Box of Birds gratefully acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation and we respect all First Nations elders and peoples on whose lands we work, play and create.

 
 

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.

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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

Read more about the team
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What we do…

We create experiences centred on human interaction.

Imagine walking through a virtual Australian bushland and playing with virtual animals. Or learning about the stories in our stars on a 3D journey with your friends, through an interactive universe. Or dancing with a virtual partner in another land.

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.

 
 
 
 
 
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 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.

Opening event: Friday 26 June 2026 at 6pm. Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW. RSVP at www.trybooking.com/DHYZJ 

 

Creature Interactions

Creature is an installation and workshop centred on the environment and our relationship with it. It presents a uniquely immersive and interactive re-imagining of the natural Australian bush habitats and has created a wondrous play space for both young and old audiences to educate and rediscover their natural surroundings.

Creature Installation is driven by a desire to educate, engage and entertain. The interactive installation immerses participants in 360-degree 2D projections which are facilitated by educators who help frame the experience in storytelling and narrative. This assists the children to explore their movements, thoughts and emotions around the environment.

You will be immersed in the sound of the Australian bush. As you walk through the dome a swirl of particles will greet you that transforms into a bounding kangaroo. Mosquitos will start to buzz around you and as you sweep them away, they will transform into two Willy Wagtails who follow you. Trees will start to sprout from the floor and grow up the walls and leaves will fall to the floor. Frogs start to croak and crickets to chirp.

But then the creatures stop responding to all the incessant human movement. The more the humans move the more fragmented the creatures and landscapes become. Perhaps if the humans pause for a little while then the creatures will re-emerge?

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Creature was originally commissioned by the Out of the Box Festival in Brisbane, Australia.

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 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, you run around the 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……..

 
 

 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.

 
 

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.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

My House Your House Me Casa Tu Casa

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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.

 
 
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