




Before We Disappear is an adaptive, interactive film about Climate Collapse which uses AI to analyse your face from your webcam as you watch and changes it's structure based on your emotions. Set in a bleak future, the film uses sophisticated algorithms, machine learning and computer vision technologies to reorganise the narrative for each viewing. I helped prepare the product in Unity for a home user release.
Film by Richard Ramchurn with analysis algorithms by Callum Berger in partnership with BlueSkeye AI. Soon to be released on Steam.





Over a series of workshops artists Baff Akoto, Thomas Buckley, Angela YT Chan, Enorê and Kialy Tihngang were supported in developing ideas for a large-scale, site specific, immersive arts exhibition based at the Tatton Park estate. I gave presentations on the various technologies and platforms available and supported the artists to develop a mobile, gamified, Augmented Reality tour around the grounds of the park.
Workshops took place at Somerset House (London), FACT (Liverpool) and at Tatton Park (Cheshire)





Stream of Consciousness is an 18-minute VR film experience about the creaturely lives and sensitive ecologies of the Darent Valley. 360 video footage produced by the artist was encoded and processed for high quality distribution online and on Meta Quest 2 VR Headsets on which viewers access the film.
Seen on tour across the valley in an Airstream caravan over 2023-4, exhibited at Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery and Dartford Museum Mar-Apr 2024. It will also be touring care homes in the district in 2024-5.
Ben Neal is an Arts-focused Creative Technologist and has worked freelance for over 20 years as Psicon Lab (pronounced "Sy-Kon Lab"). He collaborates with creative people who want to use technology, and brings their ideas to life.
He also co-runs Displace Studio an immersive Mixed Reality performance studio with co-lead Kerryn Wise. Their best known project is a VR experience called Facades which has toured internationally.