Changing Room by Michael Takeo Magruder — A mixed-reality installation exploring the mutability and reusability of artefacts, concepts and situations in the Digital Age.

Changing Room is an evolving artwork that considers the transitory nature of shared, virtual and mixed-reality environments and the creative potential of working within these liminal spaces. Blending the shared virtual environment of Second Life with the shared physical environment of Eastside Projects, the artwork facilitates the realisation, curation and documentation of distinct – yet interrelated – art projects arising from a common pool of virtual and physical resources. Over a seven-week period, a series of resident artists will be invited to use the spaces and materials to realise works of their own conceptual and aesthetic design. Each project will last for a single week, after which, it will be documented in situ and then be handed over to a new artist for repurposing.

Data Double (El Lissitzky iteration) by Michael Takeo Magruder — A shared portal between reality and virtuality.

Data Double is a mixed-reality installation that acts as a two-way, digital mirror between reality and virtuality, enabling viewers in each ‘world’ to gaze upon remediations of themselves and their surrounding space. Reflecting back to us our spatial environments, while simultaneously disrupting and distorting our perceptions of them, the artwork seeks to facilitate new creative and curatorial possibilities between the paralleled worlds, exploring relationships and opening dialogical spaces between the real and the virtual, the actual and the imagined.