BREAKING NEWS | "CORPUS SPECTRALIS" SELECTED AS A FINALIST IN THE QLD XR FESTIVAL 2025
Exciting news! Very proud to say that my work "Corpus Spectralis" that was featured in the very first Hidden Festival in May this year has been selected as a Finalist in the Qld XR Festival, in the Best in Digital Art Category for 2025. Their big award events will be in Brisbane across the 28-30th of November. This work was commissioned by the Creative City Ballarat.
Seriously! Ballarat! 2025 has been a very inpsirational and high volume creative period for us, and there's no sense of slowing down... A lot of it has had to do with the support & encouragement of the local artistic and creative community here in Ballarat.
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
