Tachymorph

Tachymorph is a new audio-visual artwork created for Fed Square’s Big Screen by transmedia artist, Joli Boardman. The work explores the boundaries of human perception.

Tachymorph is an audiovisual descent into the fluidity of perception, where boundaries of scale, time and self dissolve.

Drawing from childhood experiences of perceptual distortion and the neurological phenomena of Tachysensia and Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, the work explores how reality can stretch, shrink and shift in uncanny ways.

Using photogrammetry to capture body parts and found objects, the piece morphs these elements within virtual environments that flicker and phase, evoking a liminal, unstable reality.

Credits

Visual collaboration by Eek

Sound design by Calum Kenihan

Tachymorph has been co-commissioned by Fed Square and Liquid Architecture, and is presented as part of Fed Square’s curated program of digital art on the Big Screen.

Artist statement

These distortions often occurred while I was falling asleep at my grandparents’ house. The ticking of their clock would stretch into eternity. My tongue tracing the back of my teeth felt like driving endlessly down a nighttime highway – vast, rhythmic, and unending. My fingertips, fingernails, and mouth would expand to fill my entire awareness, then collapse into something impossibly small. These states coexisted in a surreal simultaneity.

Reflecting on these memories, I see echoes of gravitational lensing, time dilation, and quantum superposition – where perception is not fixed but oscillates between the infinite and the infinitesimal. Tachymorph translates this into a sensory field where reality is unanchored, flickering between presence and absence, vastness and void.

About the artist

Joli Boardman is a technologist and transmedia artist whose work spans lighting, video, installation, sound, live performance and generative design.

Currently based in Naarm, he fuses emerging technologies with materiality, shaping sensory, emotionally driven works that challenge perception and invite introspection.

Guided by theoretical, inner and metaphysical frameworks, his research explores how technology can deepen attunement to one another, ourselves and the subtle frequencies that shape reality.

About Liquid Architecture

Liquid Architecture is a community-founded, artist-first organisation that exists to explore sonic relationships and practices on the radical edges of sound and listening.

They support artists, musicians, performers and creative practitioners – whether they are sonic luminaries or emerging artists – to make vital works, presented in exceptional locations and circumstances.