FLOW: Shared play through sound and movement

DELIVERED | BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND ISEA 2024

A responsive audiovisual environment where movement and gesture let people shape a shared world of light and sound.

Source: Brisbane Festival 2024 programme; ISEA2024 FLOW listing; supplied portfolio pp. 7 and 11.

Public value and next application

Outcomes to pursue and measure in a future commission

Participation Across Generations

Movement and gesture provide an immediate invitation to experiment. A council activation could give families and mixed-age groups a shared creative activity, with seated and lower-movement options tested in the design.

Nature As A Shared Language

Water offers a familiar starting point for connecting body, emotion and environment. A future programme could add a local waterway theme and facilitated interpretation without treating artistic metaphor as scientific instruction.

A Cultural Reason To Stay

An evolving responsive environment can encourage exploration alongside scheduled performance. Future evening programming could connect participation with nearby cultural venues and hospitality.

Agency Through Movement

A small gesture can influence a much larger visual and sonic environment. This gives participants a clear relationship between action and response, while other people can watch, listen and join the encounter.

Audience Intelligence And Business Value

Audience intelligence: Understand participation patterns, interaction and viewing time, shared use and voluntary cultural interests and experience feedback.

Business value: Shape cultural campaigns, content choices and morning or evening programmes; connect interested audiences with related events and attractions.

How To Evaluate A Future Commission

Responsive play

Log activation counts, session duration and preferred audiovisual elements.

Experience and access

Combine voluntary feedback with observations of shared use and participation barriers.

Return engagement

Measure voluntary email sign-ups and future event referrals with explicit consent.

A Useful Commissioning Step

Define the desired social encounter before selecting equipment. Pilot the interface with diverse users, agree sound and light conditions, and scope artist, performer and technical responsibilities for the venue.

Evidence: Brisbane Festival 2024 programme; ISEA2024 FLOW listing; supplied portfolio pp. 7 and 11. Full source notes accompany this collection.