Pneuhaus

What if the camera body wasn't something you held in your hand, but a room you walked through? Join artists UVA, Lua Brice, Lachlan Turczan, and Pneuhaus as they scale up microscopic optical physics and subtle light rays into massive, immersive architecture. This conversation explores how light moves from a captured moment on a page to a monumental, living environment.

"Compound Camera" is a 20-foot inflatable dome composed of 109 hexagonal pinhole cameras, each projecting a live, inverted image of the surrounding environment onto the translucent interior. The effect is likened to standing inside the eye of a fly—a tessellated, fragmented panorama stitched together from slightly different viewpoints. Visitors can push against the soft fabric walls to adjust focal range and distort the images, engaging directly with the mechanics of vision. Fully analog and without digital equipment, the work offers a tactile experience of light, optics, and perception.

"Compound Camera" is a 20-foot inflatable dome composed of 109 hexagonal pinhole cameras, each projecting a live, inverted image of the surrounding environment onto the translucent interior. The effect is likened to standing inside the eye of a fly—a tessellated, fragmented panorama stitched together from slightly different viewpoints. Visitors can push against the soft fabric walls to adjust focal range and distort the images, engaging directly with the mechanics of vision. Fully analog and without digital equipment, the work offers a tactile experience of light, optics, and perception.

"Compound Camera" is a 20-foot inflatable dome composed of 109 hexagonal pinhole cameras, each projecting a live, inverted image of the surrounding environment onto the translucent interior. The effect is likened to standing inside the eye of a fly—a tessellated, fragmented panorama stitched together from slightly different viewpoints. Visitors can push against the soft fabric walls to adjust focal range and distort the images, engaging directly with the mechanics of vision. Fully analog and without digital equipment, the work offers a tactile experience of light, optics, and perception.