“We consider within the energy of tales to tickle senses and shift perceptions,” says Marshmallow Laser Feast, an experiential artist collective merging artwork, prolonged actuality (XR), and movie into large-scale, immersive exhibitions.
MLF’s newest work, Of the Oak, situates a monumental, six-meter-tall, double-sided video of the titular tree in London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The piece focuses on the backyard’s Lucombe oak, portraying a “digital double” utilizing real-world information.
MLF collaborated with researchers from Kew to create a vibrant, scientific rendering, mixing superior applied sciences with creative imagery. The workforce stitched collectively hundreds of photographs, used LiDAR to map the tree’s type with laser pulses, CT-scanned soil samples, employed ground-penetrating radar to hint the basis system, and recorded a collection of 24-hour soundtracks.
“Of the Oak is a celebration for the oak tree as a residing monument of important ecological relationships and species interdependence,” MLF says. “It’s an invite to witness the oak as a keystone within the internet of life, majestic and unassuming, stretching its branches skyward and its roots deep into the soil, embodying each quiet power and boundless generosity.”
Guests can entry a surprising digital field guide on their telephones or through desktop from anyplace, that includes a collection of meditations that “tune into the invisible bond between people and bushes.” The app additionally consists of an interactive species information highlighting the various vary of birds, bugs, fungi, and different inhabitants that depend on oak bushes for survival.
Of the Oak continues at Kew by means of September 28. Marshmallow Laser Feast can also be at the moment presenting an immersive, seven-room exhibition titled YOU:MATTER on the National Science and Media Museum as a part of Bradford 2025 U.Ok. Metropolis of Tradition. See extra tasks on the collective’s website.
