Volo
Volo
dreams of flight
Take flight in one of four award-winning virtual da Vinci flying machines, celebrating Leonardo's 500th anniversary.
Flap and soar over cliffs as an Ornithopter bird-person; join a psychedelic aviator’s ballet in your Aerial Screw; shoot into satellite orbit from a renaissance cannon; or bank and weave in a Glider across extraterrestrial landscapes.
Volo premiered in four locations around the City of London.
Choose to pilot one of four Da Vinci-inspired virtual flying machines.
Volo features a unique tensioned swing structure, which is designed to be cantilevered from trees.
Oscillations
Oscillations
Oscillations is based on two popular entertainment technologies: the multi millennia-old swing and the 21st century virtual reality headset - the former designed to excite the vestibular system, the latter designed to excite the visual cortex.
Headsets mask reality, and draw the rider into an insular world. The actions of swinging and looking are rewarded with uncanny, dynamic, vertiginous architectural landscapes that excite the senses. Riders’ haphazard shrieks of delight, and groans of discomfort suggest an illicit experience. Cubic sculptural forms reference the language of playground equipment. A queue of spectators grows.
Premiere at Victoria & Albert Museum, London
