The Australian technology studio Sandpit is breathing life into everything from 500-million-year-old fossils to an Adelaide festival show and Shakespeare’s home.
For the past two decades Californian palaeontologist Mary Droser has been travelling to Nilpena in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges every year and sleeping in shearers’ quarters to carry on the ground-breaking work she and her team are doing unearthing some of the most important fossils on the planet.
Using cutting-edge technology, the Sandpit team has activated the fossils so they appear to come to life before your eyes. Combining Droser’s decades of research with hyperrealistic 3D animation, Sandpit has enabled Droser to time travel half a billion years back to observe and touch these pivotal animals in their environment, looking and moving as they would have at the time.
Upcoming projects include a deeply moving, intimate exhibition of archival imagery, video footage, letters and stories at the refurbished Melbourne Holocaust Museum, in which the survivors of the Holocaust appear to directly address visitors with their personal stories. “Technology sometimes has a habit of getting in the way of a story if it’s not used correctly [but] we’re hoping to tell those stories in the most respectful, nuanced way.”
‘Illuminate’ is an immersive timescape created by Sandpit for the WA Museum at Boola Bardip, depicting, in this case, a coastal landscape.The more they worked together, the more they became interested in using technology to make interactive, immersive forms of theatre or performance, culminating in their last Border Project show,.
A fossil unearthed at Nilpena Edicara National Park of Dickinsonia, a primitive animal that inhabited seabeds in Australia from about 575 to 541 million years ago.
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