Extended Play (EP) is a speculative experiment expanding how research can be interpreted and experienced. The project reimagines research not as fixed text, but as a sensory encounter where sound, motion, and image converge to form a living space for thought. It asks, what if research could unfold fluidly rather than within rigid academic form? Drawing from the structure of an EP in music, I built a narrative that allows creativity to expand, overlap, and evolve. Each element functions like a track: distinct, yet part of a larger composition. As an artist, I find freedom in this body of work, an openness that resists convention and embraces experimentation as a form of inquiry.
Extended Play manifests as a publication design project that reframes how research can be engaged with through augmented reality. It moves beyond text into a spatial, intuitive experience where sound clips and abstract motion act as narrative cues. Users are invited to explore slowly, guided by an improvised and responsive visual system that resists linear reading.
Sound is set as a vast space for exploration, where individuals can extend their knowledge of its history and music-making. Each spread functions as an interface and becomes part of the storytelling, each gesture, transition, and layer deepening the emotional and intellectual resonance of the research. By merging user experience, motion, and conceptual design, Extended Play visually translates the rhythm and tone of my written work into a living system of meaning.
Extending into curatorial and public space
Following the publication’s development, I began to explore how its ideas might unfold within a curatorial environment. In gallery settings, Extended Play transforms into an installation, an interactive field of sound and motion inviting viewers to engage in its discourse. The works become entry points rather than conclusions, encouraging contemplation about how research, art, and music coexist as living systems of knowledge. This extension into public space reflects the project’s core intent: to spark dialogue about how music is understood, translated, and disseminated within society. The shift from page to space completes the loop of inquiry, transforming research into an open, collective experience of interpretation.
Disciplines:
Augmented Reality, Publication Design, New Media Art
Recognition:
Loerie Award Winner - Bronze
