Open at the Source

Drosera Obscura is a deeply immersive XR project that dissolves the boundaries between the organic and the digital through a multisensory environment shaped by sight, sound, scent, and touch. Set within a speculative post-human bogscape, the experience invites participants to explore a living world of animatronic flora, reactive soundscapes, and tactile interfaces that blur the line between virtual and physical space. Inspired by evolved carnivorous plants and their symbiotic relationships with sound and synthetic biology, the project transforms passive observation into active participation.

QMist is an educational app that introduces quantum information science through a series of structured, easy-to-follow modules. Starting with the basics, QMist guides learners step by step toward more advanced concepts such as entanglement, quantum gates, and algorithms.

Responsive Sound Space is an interactive system that transforms how we experience sound in shared spaces. Using a shape-changing wall, dynamic projections, and spatial audio, the system transforms its shape, visuals, and acoustic environment, creating a continuously evolving spatial experience. Designed for classrooms, performance venues, and public spaces, this project explores how adaptive sound design can make environments more engaging, flexible, and immersive.

For Ruth & Violette plays with poetry and encryption to subvert networked communications infrastructures. Based on a code-poem used by intelligence operatives in the Second World War, the piece harnesses alternative uses of Zoom to engage with the complex history of obfuscation in relation to covert broadcasting methods. The title of the work references the origins of the poem and the lives encoded within it. Paul O'Neill is an artist and assistant professor at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway, Ireland. His practice and research focus on our collective dependency on networked technologies and infrastructures.