Brad Miller artist and academic research

We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon, from the song Woodstock, written by Joni Mitchell

starry_night is a large-scale interactive installation that functions as a contemporary cosmological map. Celebrating our eternal wonder with the beauty of space and visualizes our deep connection to it by making concrete a scientific truth: every atom in our body, and almost every element in earth, was created in the heart of a huge star long before the planet was born. We are in awe of the sky and the stars but not separate from them. Instead of placing images of gods, goddesses or heroic figures into the heavens as was tradition, the system projects people passing on the street into the installations night sky. Using sensors, cameras and software to render the likenesses of random passers-by into a 3D point cloud, he then projects the human constellation into the fluid simulated cosmos. The movement on the street further provokes the waves of motion within the imaginary universe while the emulation of the galaxies is generated by an algorithm based on Navier-Stokes equations.

Brad Miller is an artist and academic at the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts (COFA). His artistic practice bridges the fields of media arts, experimental design studio, participatory urban media architecture, software development and expanded photography.

Adam Hinshaw is a software developer and systems designer for creative industries including advertising, events, fine arts, online, museum, academic research, film and television

Dave Towey Freelance Designer/Programmer

Ian McArthur is a hybrid practitioner working in the domains of experimental and speculative multidisciplinary practice, transcultural collaboration, metadesign and education change.

Philippa Bateman is a film producer and writer and the founder of Enigma Machine P/L, a storytelling and consultancy company.