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OUTSHIFT

Lens based artist Rachel Henson and technologist Neil Manuell, have been making outdoor mixed-reality experiences since 2009. Commissions for international festivals and heritage sites include for: ANTI Festival, Finland, Brighton Festival, Up the Wall Festival, Chester, Cairo Downtown Arts Festival, Greenwich and Docklands Festival, White Night, and Discovering Places with the National Trust Box Hill. OUTSHIFT have been supported by Home Live Art, The Nightingale and The Basement and have completed residencies at Blast Theory and Lighthouse.

Rachel Henson creates unique narratives that navigate audiences through specific locations, merging visual storyworlds with live landscapes. Innovations include using sets of paper flick books as point-of-view navigation tools and mutoscopes installed in situ as hand-cranked augmented-reality. These ideas led to the Monocular, a lens device and app that allows viewers to merge an audiovisual storyworld with an outdoor location, created with technologist Neil Manuell.

Senior developer, Neil Manuell contributes to Open Source frameworks Ash, Signals and Pure MVC and works on UI systems for AAA console games, currently working in Unity. He created an app allowing users to interact with moving-image sequences frame-by-frame, a Kinect hack where viewers trigger moving-image by walking towards and away from a projection and a haptic navigation device worn against the chest as a direction-sensitive heartbeat.