About Lightwell

Lightwell produces multimedia for museums and other public spaces. From large scale interactive installations to detailed touchscreen programs, we can work with any combination of media with physical space.

We focus on media production, but provide a range of related services such as conceptual design, software/hardware integration and final commissioning that help realise complex projects.

Most of our work is with designers, architects and large project teams in developing media projects that are integrated with public space.




People

Michael Hill

Michael Hill formed Lightwell in 2004 and is the company's Director. He studied painting at the National Art School and has a BA in Sculpture and Installation from Sydney College of Art (Sydney University), and an MA in Media Art from COFA (UNSW).

He has interests in performance and theatre as well as media production. He exhibited films and videos as a media artist before working with the Australian Film Commission in the mid-1990s. There he financed and oversaw the production of interactive projects and experimental media.

He has produced video and interactive programs for museums and and other public spaces for more than ten years, including programs for the Australian War Memorial, Australian Museum, National Sports Museum, National Archives and many others.


Dave Towey

Dave Towey is a designer and programmer and is Lightwell's Technical Director.

He has a Bachelor of Design with Honours from COFA (UNSW), where he also received a university award for Design.

Prior to joining Lightwell, Dave was a grant holder at Fabrica - Benetton's communication research centre in Northern Italy. While at Fabrica he gained experience working with artists and designers from around the world and developed various interactive installations and media projects.

Dave's work has been installed in galleries and public spaces in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Venice and Seoul, as well as part of an exhibition of Fabrica's work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.


Richard Wong

Richard Wong holds a Bachelor of Design from COFA (UNSW) in environmental and graphic design.

Prior to joining Lightwell, he was involved with a project involving the development of media interactivity at CSIRO's Information Communication Technology Centre. He has been a freelance designer for various firms across Australia and Singapore with his experience covering a broad range of disciplines from spatial design, to graphic and interactive design.

He was was a national finalist in Australia's Adobe Pixel Mash 2009 and featured as an artist at the Adidas Superstar 35th Anniversary 2005 in Singapore.


Andrew Barrie

Andrew completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Media Art) at RMIT in 2004, and has worked in the areas of digital media production and exhibition development ever since.

Recent professional experience has included working for a number of Melbourne's largest cultural institutions, including Museum Victoria, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and Federation Square. Within these roles he worked on the technical and creative development behind permanent exhibitions such as 'The Melbourne Story' at Melbourne Museum and 'Screen Worlds' at ACMI, and co-ordinated site-specific installations, screenings, and performances while overseeing the Creative Program at Federation Square.

Andrew has also exhibited works as a sound/installation artist at the the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Arnolifini in Bristol, and numerous artist-run spaces around Melbourne.


Sabrina Organo

Sabrina has worked in media production for over ten years in both Australia and the UK.

She has production managed, produced and directed online and broadcast projects for a wide variety of public and private sector organisations including BBC, Channel 4, National Theatre, Science Museum, IBM, Channel 7 and most recently Disney.

While living in the UK Sabrina also spent a period of time working in stage management on the West End and in 2005 managed a venue at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

She has been a part of BAFTA and RTS award winning production teams and holds a BA Communication (Media Production) from Charles Sturt University.


Elliott Magen

Elliott is an editor and motion graphics compositor. He holds a BA in Media & Communication (Film Major) from UNSW.

Prior to joining Lightwell, Elliott had worked in film and television production on a number of dramas, documentaries, and commercials, before moving into the world of post-production.

As an Assistant/Assembly Editor, Elliott has worked on a number of documentaries including 'Darwin's Brave New World' (ABC) and 'A Traveller's Guide to the Planets' (ABC/National Geographic), and the feature film 'Here I Am'. He was also Web Editor for the series 'Art + Soul' (ABC) and 'Law and Disorder' (SBS).


Fiona McCallum

Fiona was administrator for the Western Australian Herbarium for 4 years before relocating to Sydney in 2011.

She is also an experienced production assistant and script editor, having worked on several short films and music videos.


Aiden Benton

Aiden is a programmer and interaction designer whose background is in electronic arts.

His diverse set of programming skills and interests in user-experience design, persuasive computing and information visualisation allow him to function as a powerful link between art, design and technology.

His design and development experience includes multitouch, web, mobile, 3D animation and tangible computing.

He has studied Electronic Arts at the University of Western Sydney and more recently Design Computing at the University of Sydney.