The Morphos

BACKGROUND: Batty designed The Morphos for the exhibition 'Music, Melbourne and Me: 40 years of Mushroom and Melbourne's Popular Music Culture' held at RMIT Gallery. The Morphos was a large cubic structure housed in the main gallery which harnessed perceptual mapping techniques to activate an immersive multimedia experience of music, fashion and performance. CONTRIBUTION: The Morphos was designed using custom visual granular synthesis software (developed by Batty), and used 6 projectors to achieve a 360-degree projection map. The underlying technology led to the creation of another creative work 'Architectonics' for RMIT Gallery, for White Night 2016. In addition to Morphos, Batty also created for the Mushroom Records exhibition an interactive booth for participants to create videos of their thoughts on Australian music which were then mixed in with celebrity interviews in the room. He also developed an interactive jukebox. These installations exemplify Batty's merging of disparate methods of working with light and sound, and his command of digital fluency over modern technology to create immersive, participatory experiences. They contribute to Batty's ongoing research exploring the intersection between audio-visual art, computer science and musical performance. SIGNIFICANCE: The significance of The Morphos is evidenced by its inclusion in the 4-month exhibition as one of its main pieces; this, and the other 2 smaller works, contributed to the exhibition's visually and aurally rich documentation of Melbourne's music culture. The exhibition was curated by Suzanne Davies, RMIT Gallery Director and Chief Curator, and Dr Kipps Horn, Program Director of RMIT's Bachelor of Arts (Music Industry), with curatorial input from Michael Gudinski AM, CEO of The Mushroom Group (owner of Australia's biggest independent record label). The exhibition received funding support from the City of Melbourne and the Bank of Melbourne, with Telstra as technology sponsor.

背景：巴蒂（Batty）为皇家墨尔本理工大学美术馆（RMIT Gallery）举办的主题展览「音乐、墨尔本与我：Mushroom唱片与墨尔本流行音乐文化四十年」设计了作品《The Morphos》。该作品为大型立方体装置，安置于主展厅空间，运用感知映射技术打造了融音乐、时尚与表演于一体的沉浸式多媒体体验。

贡献：《The Morphos》采用巴蒂自主开发的定制化视觉颗粒合成软件（visual granular synthesis software）完成设计，并借助6台投影设备实现了360度全景投影映射。依托该核心技术，巴蒂还为2016年白夜艺术节（White Night 2016）的皇家墨尔本理工大学美术馆展览创作了另一件创意作品《Architectonics》。除《The Morphos》外，巴蒂还为本次展览打造了互动展位，供参与者录制关于澳大利亚音乐的感想视频，这些视频后续将与展厅内的名人访谈内容进行混音整合；此外他还开发了一款互动点唱机。上述装置作品充分彰显了巴蒂对光影与声音创作路径的跨界融合，以及他娴熟驾驭现代数字技术、打造沉浸式可参与式艺术体验的能力。相关成果亦助力巴蒂持续探索视听艺术、计算机科学与音乐表演之间的交叉研究领域。

意义：《The Morphos》作为展览核心展品之一入选本次为期四个月的展会，其艺术价值由此可见一斑；该作品与另外两件小型作品一同，为展览详实呈现墨尔本音乐文化的视听丰富面貌提供了核心支撑。本次展览由皇家墨尔本理工大学美术馆馆长兼首席策展人苏珊娜·戴维斯（Suzanne Davies），以及皇家墨尔本理工大学艺术学士（音乐产业方向）项目主任基普斯·霍恩博士（Dr. Kipps Horn）联合策划，澳大利亚最大独立唱片公司所有者蘑菇集团（The Mushroom Group）首席执行官迈克尔·古迪辛吉 AM（Michael Gudinski AM）亦提供了策展顾问支持。展览获得了墨尔本市政府与墨尔本银行的资金赞助，同时由澳洲电信（Telstra）提供技术赞助支持。