School students enjoyed some creative learning time at the Glasshouse’s Video Dome recently.

The Dome is an innovative new-media exhibition comprising artworks that are collaborations between artists and research scientists, referencing astronomical phenomena and contemporary art.  
Inspired by ‘the sublime’, the artworks by David Carson and Paul Bourke aim to capture the infinite and indefinable aspects of nature and the universe.  
The program features fish-eye projections that play continuously on a 30-minute loop, accompanied by a complimentary soundtrack.  The viewer is immersed in a full sensory experience, surrounded with vision and sound, inside a five-metre diameter inflated dome.  
This unusual environment is a whole new way of experiencing projected moving images and surround sound.  The exhibition pushes the boundaries of contemporary art into the domain of planetariums and science museums.
Students met the artist David Carson and were given the opportunity investigate the exhibition and its subject matter.
As they experienced the portable planetarium, students gained an understanding of how the special projection works, including the technology associated with the exhibition.