Reality Mixer
What if you could
turn the world?
For Intel Encore at Toronto’s Illuminarium, we collaborated with mixed reality artist VOIDZ on an installation that put the audience in control of the image.
VOIDZ brought the original artwork. We developed AI interpretations of those scenes: alternate worlds with a recognisable connection to the source. A custom turntable let visitors move through the imagery using depth.
The result was something you could feel your way through, one turn at a time.
One scene.
Seven realities.
Start with VOIDZ’s original.
Then find yourself somewhere else.
Original
VOIDZ’s original mixed reality artwork: a metallic spiral suspended in a Toronto alley.
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Underwater
The alley becomes an underwater world. Blue light, fish and coral surround the spiral.
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Blue flames
Electric blue flames trace the spiral, turning the familiar form into a ring of energy.
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Vegetation
Leaves and vegetation take over the ring and its surroundings in warm, saturated light.
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Feathers
Dark feather-like textures gather around the circular form beneath a luminous sky.
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Fire
Orange fire burns through a darker version of the alley, following the spiral’s curve.
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Smoke
The scene loses its colour as clouds of grey smoke fill the space around the spiral.
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Use the slider or choose a look.
Press play to see the selected loop.
A selection of supplied render loops. In the installation, the physical turntable mixed the imagery through depth.
Read the moving artwork
Each silent loop follows a metallic spiral in an alley. The original combines a filmed environment with an impossible sculptural form.
The AI versions change the scene’s material and atmosphere: underwater, blue flames, vegetation, feathers, fire and smoke. The spiral remains the visual thread between them. Select any version to read its individual description.
The web viewer presents the individual loops; it does not recreate the installation’s depth-based transitions.
Less interface.
More instinct.
A physical gesture
changes a projected world.
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Read the demonstration
A hand rests on a large white turntable beside a plinth labelled “Voidz + n-v-r.” A laptop sits above it, with the artwork projected on the wall behind.
As the visitor turns the controller, the scene moves from a warm orange sky and dark curling forms into luminous purples and blues. The hand, controller and changing image share the frame.
This is a silent web edit of footage recorded at the installation on June 26, 2024.
The control was part of the artwork.
Brent Marshall fabricated the turntable and developed its TouchDesigner interface. That physical connection gave visitors a direct way into the shifting images we made with VOIDZ.
Our contribution sat inside that collaboration: AI interpretations built around the artist’s mixed reality work, with a common visual structure for the installation to move through.
Different hands.
One shared reality.
One of Never’s two installations
for Intel Encore, June 2024.
- Original artwork & artist collaboration
- VOIDZ ↗
- AI interpretations & collaboration
- Never
- Turntable fabrication & TouchDesigner
- Brent Marshall
- Client / exhibition producer
- Intel / Mosaic North America ↗
- Venue
- Illuminarium, Toronto
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