Installations / projection / public space
IRL work
Spatial storytelling in parks, galleries, domes, theaters, and improvised architectures. These works use light, image, sound, and projection to shape space into memory, atmosphere, and signal.
EXUVIA
EXUVIA is an interdisciplinary performance installation directed by Ailin Bars and developed with Kris Pilcher, proposing an immersive experience where body, technology, and matter are intertwined in real time.
The work merges visual arts, digital art, contemporary dance, and live sound into a performative ecosystem in which gesture is translated into image, sound, and trace through motion sensors, digital capture, and real-time generative systems.
Presented within the framework of NUBIA Labs at ESPRONCEDA, the project explores the body as a sensitive interface capable of activating multiple perceptual layers and building a shared experience between performer, technology, and audience.
Liquid Light
Commissioned by Dashboard, this piece turned the water wall at Woodruff Park into a luminous monument animated by networked 40K projectors.
Stargazer
Presented as part of Kepler’s Gardens, Stargazer linked Mozilla Hubs participants with a live dome projection environment in Barcelona, allowing remote and local audiences to influence the same visual field.
Collaboration with Cenk Guzelis, Mohsen Hazrati, and Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture.
Fermi Paradox
Drawing from Kepler’s exoplanet archive, this projection work translated astronomical data into a meditation on cosmic silence.
Stronger Together
An Azure Kinect-driven installation reflecting collective motion back to participants, making social connection visible through shared movement.
A Graveyard Duet
A meditation on memory and mourning staged within museum space, where choreography and projection became a conversation with the dead.
Wildwood Revival 2016
An open-air intervention weaving projection, rhythm, and festival atmosphere into a temporary visual environment.
Guerrilla Projections
Uninvited light actions across Atlanta — shadows, frequencies, and speculative messages folded into existing architecture.
Resurgens
Created with Out of Hand Theater, this monumental phoenix puppet mapped with light rose through choreography and song to tell Atlanta’s story.
Transient Pulse
A study in rhythm, reflection, and pulse — a show concerned with flicker, repetition, and human-scale time.
Shown in Atlanta during a period of intense experimental output, the work used light and repetition to turn bodily tempo into visual atmosphere.
CYDONIA
A speculative Martian topography installed at Waves.GIF in Mammal Gallery, Atlanta — part ruin, part transmission.
The installation folded astronomy, conspiracy residue, and landscape fiction into an environment that felt excavated rather than simply displayed.
Project Bluebeam
A solo exhibition framed as transmissions from the Black Knight Satellite, shown at Nine Ace Gallery in Atlanta.
Working through signal, paranoia, and speculative cosmology, the project treated exhibition space as a site of intercepted messages and unstable evidence.
Vast Active Living Intelligence System
Twenty-five electrical outlets, twenty-five apparitions — a haunted grid of human-machine presence.
The work imagines infrastructure itself as sentient residue, turning familiar hardware into an uncanny network of latent life and distributed perception.
