Lightwell specialises in interactive, video and audio programs for museums, visitor centres and
public spaces.

We also work with designers and architects on new projects which combine media with
built environments.


Dangerous Australians
Australian Museum, Jun 08



Dangerous Australians is a 6m long interactive projection that features some of Australia’s most dangerous animals. Created using custom software running on Mac OS X and featuring 3D CGI creatures, the table’s inhabitants respond to prying visitors in a scarily life-like way.

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Creation Stories
Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne, Nov 09



Three Wurundjeri, Bangerang and Gunditjmara Creation Stories are displayed on this circular touchtable.

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Genealogy of Moving Image Technologies
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Oct 09



Visitors navigate a network of relationships to uncover the development of moving image technologies such as the Zoetrope, the film projector, and the Sony Playstation.

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Forgotten Songs
Angel Place, Sydney, Sept 09



An art installation comprising 116 bird cages plays a soundscape of birdsong. The calls are from bird species that used to live in the city before the arrival of Europeans.

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Locations
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Oct 09



On a circular touchtable visitors can select short clips of Australian films and see the locations where they were shot.

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Be A World Leader
Australian Museum, Jun 09



In this four-player game visitors have the planet’s future in their hands. Choose a country and make policy decisions that keep voters happy, the economy running, and that reduce your country’s greenhouse gas output.

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Winton Trackway
Australian Museum, Sydney, Mar 08


This 11 metre by 4 metre projection is a 3D CGI re-enactment of a dinosaur stampede frozen in time in fossilized footprints at Winton, Queensland.

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Deep Sea
Australian Museum, Jun 08


Deep Sea allows visitors to explore the darkest deep and see the creatures that survive more than 4000 metres below the surface. You can select a zone of the deep sea and view video and still images of the creatures found there. Nice if you like that sort of thing.

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Scribbly Gum
Australian Museum, Sydney, Jun 08


This is a large, three-screen atmospheric video program that captures a snapshot of life in and on a single scribbly gum in an average Sydney backyard. We shot sequences of the tree over the course of a year. The program shows the passing of time from the emergence of the cicadas, through blossom time and shedding of bark.

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Memory of a Nation
National Archives of Australia, Feb 07


We produced two video programs and five touchscreens for this exhibition that showcase the Archives’ extraordinary collection of paper, film and photographic records, and other collection items.

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