Fractured Heart: Interactive Projection Sculpture

Fractured Heart is a interactive audiovisual mapped projection sculpture, which illuminates with geometric colours and generates music in response to performative movements of “players” from the audience.

Fractured Heart was first presented as the backdrop to Gotye’s live performance during the 2011 ARIA Awards. Innovations to track user gesture to trigger audio and remix songs were added to turn it into a synaesthetic visual remix instrument and it was presented in Sydney 2012 in the VIVID Light Walk.

In late 2012 the sculpture was collected for long term exhibition at the National Film and Sound Archive, as an exemplar of Australian hybrid arts innovation. The beautiful interactive sculpture was displayed in the main gallery of the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra from late 2012 to early 2015.

Fractured Heart is not only a poetic and fun way to engage with music, sounds and light animation. It is also important as a 'living’ document of Gotye’s interdisciplinary creative approach, and of illuminart’s highly innovative artistic output combining sculpture, performance, and intermedia art.

NFSA CEO Michael Loebenstein