ILLUSION 

You. Here. Now. is a dynamic portrait system

Titre Variable n°9 is an ‘optical theatre’ that blends new media with traditional diorama, consisting of a wooden structure, a vintage vinyl turntable, a spy-mirror and a video-screen.

What We See is an interactive, multimedia installation that consists of an LCD screen with the front interior polarising filter removed, rendering the information on the screen invisible.

Forms float in an aquarium. They are made from letters, but their movements suggest that they are actually small creatures, like bees trapped in a bottle…

The Point of Perception is a collaborative project between artist Madi Boyd and neuroscientists Mark Lythgoe and Beau Lotto.

Designed specifically for ILLUSION, The Invisible Eye is a ‘robotic eye’ sculpture constructed from clear plastics in fractal and multi-layered forms.

“ The technological singularity” is a future time speculated in science fiction…

What goes up must come down

Something in the Way it Moves is a study that examines how illusory patterns emerge from a range of simple to complex arrangements of dots, displayed statically or dynamically on a computer screen.

Add water to the common red wine glass and it becomes a pristine lens that turns the world upside down.

In Significant Birds the listener is confronted with a group of twelve bird cages, each containing a small loudspeaker…

Revelators I–VII is an installation consisting of seven towers made of over 400 acrylic fresnel lenses.

These pieces use moiré interference patterns to create illusions of depth and movement…

Motion Aftereffect Illusion consists of two discs with a spiral image capable of inward or outward motion.

The same figure when seen at a distance tends to seem smaller and to move more slowly than when it is nearby…

Taking on the visual illusion known as persistence of vision, Die Falle (German for The Trap), is a large-scale zoetrope of a man’s dream-time reality.

As digital technologies have become embedded in everyday life, the line between the virtual and real is becoming increasingly blurred…

Cubes is a kinetic, mechanical art sculpture based on a geometric pattern of diamonds that gives the optical illusion of six cubes

Counter is a video-mapped structure designed to trick the viewer’s perception

Columba is named after the small, faint star constellation Columba Noachi (Latin for Noah’s Dove) and symbolises our growing consciousness.

A neural mechanism has recently been discovered that goes some way to explaining how we get experiential insight into other minds.

An impossible bottle is a type of mechanical puzzle.