SYNOPSIS
“Corpus Spectralis” is a site-specific projection artwork by ReVerse Butcher, commissioned by Creative Ballarat for Hidden (2025), the city’s newest microfestival. This single-channel video installation features a large-scale projection of “Circle Series: Feminine with Revolutions”, one of the artist’s signature-style virtual sculptures, created natively in VR using Open Brush. The piece is accompanied by an original soundtrack also composed natively in VR, using VirtuosoVR, and layered with six custom VISPO (visual poetry) textures made from altered archival pages of The Ballarat Star (1891).
At its core, “Corpus Spectralis” explores perception, reality, and illusion—echoing the nature of its site. A television studio is built to transmit images outward, while concealing the machinery behind them. This work turns that mechanism inside out: instead of broadcasting a signal outward, it draws the viewer inward, reframing the studio as a portal. Created entirely in VR using virtual filmmaking tools and game engines—without physical cameras or real-world sets—the installation becomes a symbolic dialogue between old and new media. Its digitally isolated environment mirrors the obsolescence of past technologies and reflects shifting ways of seeing and understanding.
PROCESS VIDEO | MAKING OF "CORPUS SPECTRALIS" | HIDDEN, BALLARAT
LIVE EVENT PHOTOS | HIDDEN (BALLARAT) |
PHOTOGRAPHER KYLIE SUPSKI
PHOTOGRAPHER KYLIE SUPSKI
3D RENDERS/STILL FRAMES
