Bioluminescence @ Narooma Oyster Festival

The Bioluminescence Project was been invited to partner with River Of Art, Narooma High School and Narooma Rocks to create an audio-visual performance at the opening night of the Narooma Oyster Festival Friday 2 May 2025. Read below to find out how it went!

The project was made possible by the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal FRRR

Day one! Narooma High students braved the drizzle and spent the day with the Bioluminescence project exploring the Wagonga Inlet foreshore using a variety of video technology to capture the amazing biodiversity to build content for the main event on Friday night at the Narooma Oyster Festival where they will light up a 25m marquee at the entrance to the festival! Thanks to @naroomaoysterfest @riverofart and @frrr_aus to help make it happen.

Day two!!! The intrepid Bioluminoids continued their creative journey finishing off creating their video content and then straight into learning about the video projection mapping process. There is so much in this - lumens, throw ratios, projectors, software, hardware, safety, planning, and teamwork and then putting it all together to publicly perform the next day! After practicing in the Narooma Library and a crew dinner we headed to site to install the projectors and map the massive marquee that will be our canvas on Friday night. It is special to go from small scale practice to the large scale real thing and put those skills to use straight away. There was even an opportunity to practice with the @eye_candy_portals Beyard arm mounted projector! We had a briefing from the @riverofart Chair - Corin. Everything was mapped and we were ready for the next night! Thanks to @naroomarocks @riverofart and @frrr_aus to help make it happen.

Showtime at @naroomaoysterfest !! In two days these young people built this!! Then they kept the show going for a whole 3 hours! In between Greek doughnuts and Danish pancakes the Bioluminoids created an amazing shifting, morphing spectacle of light and colour all using their own video content! It is always special for us to see when it all clicks and the young people take over and not only perform but improvise and evolve the base set up. Truely magical!! Hundreds of people walked past, stopped and asked questions, interacted with the @eye_candy_portals Beyard, had a go on the video microscope and chatted to the crew. What an awesome few days hanging with the next generation of digital creatives! The future is safe in their hands!

Thanks to @naroomarocks @riverofart and @frrr_aus who all helped to make it happen.