Visual Artist and presenter of performance lecture at DocLab Live: Elastic Presence: “There really hasn’t been a forum for full dome creatives to have their own conversation. There are lots of festivals and conferences where there might be one session dedicated to dome art. What that means is a very different thing for different people, and it always felt very sidelined. DocLab enabled us to say: We need our own conversation, and we need our own platforms for discussions that are not about what dome art is, but rather what it can be. Looking at that form as to its potential for communication across a whole lot of genres.

“At this edition’s DocLab Live Event in the ARTIS Planetarium, we somehow found another way of working in that space that we hadn’t tried before. I think DocLab enables that because they are prepared to do things that actually could be disastrous, but in the end they’re beautiful. That’s the space that they provide—people can present ideas that they wouldn’t be able to anywhere else. It completely made me think differently about my practice and how I might use dome space going forward. Imagine having that opportunity! DocLab makes that possible for us.

“To the DocLab community: many blessings, what a pleasure to be part of it. The extraordinary breadth, depth, and variety of content that comes through DocLab, but is also bound by this shared interest in what the actual world is like and how we engage with the world. How do we actually do something useful for the world at this point in history? For me to be part of that conversation is a great honor. I feel so lucky to be able to contribute to it and it is such a pleasure to experience other people’s responses to those kinds of ideas and questions.”