Fulldome
And Other Non-Standard Digital Media Formats        -        One group of artists I’ve grown to like very much are the Fulldome community. They create work in a 180-degree half-spherical format to be shown to large audiences in physical dome installations, usually using digital projection. These types of facilities are often built as planetariums for space science purposes, but occasionally exist for purely artistic reasons, such as SAT in Montréal.

       I see fulldome as the collective immersive experience to counter the solitary and sometimes lonely nature of VR headsets. A departure from the 2D media formats that have gripped the world for the last century, it is a step in the ever-continuing mission to harness modern technology in the pursuit of new, innovative forms of art.  



Above: Stylized panoramic image of Towson, Maryland; rendered in a 180-degree fulldome format.


Right: the same video in its raw fisheye format, ready to be projected.


Below: 360 aircraft video in the dome.

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True Colors

At Towson Univsersity, I worked with fellow students and Professor Lynn Tomlinson of the EMF Department on the collaborative fulldome piece True Colors. Professor Tomlinson would enter this work into the 2024 SAT festival, and the two of us would represent it at the event in Montreal. True Colors would win the prix d’originalite at the festival that year.