Mixed reality in State Library Victoria's dome: Yoyo Munk
Jul 26

Experience the Library’s iconic Dome like never before.

Join State Library Victoria’s Creative Technologist-in-Residence, Yoyo Munk, as they present an unmissable artist talk and share a preview of their latest work. Created over an eight-week residency at the Library, Yoyo has experimented with the use of mixed-reality headsets in the unique architecture of the La Trobe Reading Room, exploring Library collections and data.

Be guided through the Dome with Yoyo and gain insight into their process, blending art and technology with 3D spatialisation of collections, data and collective memory.

Be one of the first to explore the Dome through mixed-reality headsets that meld real-world architecture with 3D objects and motion. Talk directly with Yoyo about their process and hear from Library staff about the future of the Dome.   

Sessions include:

• 11.30am–12.15pm
• 11.40am–12.25pm
• 11.50am–12.35pm
• 12.00pm–12.45pm
• 2.00pm–2.45pm
• 2.10pm–2.55pm
• 2.20pm–3.05pm
• 2.30pm–3.15pm

Book your tickets now.   

Please note: This event involves wearing of a mixed-reality headset. For those who use glasses with prescription lenses, we recommend wearing contact lenses if possible. If you are unable to wear contact lenses, please contact us with your eye prescription. We have a limited availability of prescription headsets. 

This event is suitable for ages 16+

About Yoyo Munk

Yoyo Munk is a scientist and artist based in Pittsburgh. A biologist by training, their background spans from insect flight aerodynamics and navigation behavior to the psychophysics of human visual responses to augmented reality displays. In their artistic practice, they explore the affordances of headset-based mixed reality as a medium, creating gallery-scale generative works designed to be explored by large audiences, anchored in efforts to create spaces for staying with the trouble of ongoing mass extinction. This is exemplified in their work Medusa (2021), created in collaboration with architect Sou Fujimoto and produced by the content collective Tin Drum, which takes the form of a generative, evolving architecture without physical form that inhabits real-world architectures and modulates its own behaviour in response to how it is, in turn, inhabited by the collective organism of its audience. They are also the author and project director behind the companion book Medusa, published in 2023 by Hurtwood Press. In other work, they have served as technical director for The Life (2019) and Kagami (2023), both by Tin Drum. Prior to this, they established and led the Quantitative Experience research group for vision science at the augmented reality company Magic Leap. They hold a PhD in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley and wrote their thesis on the aerodynamics of gliding in wingless canopy ants.