Image courtesy of artist: Twisted Vision - Window Trees, 2025.
An exhibition by internationally acclaimed holographic artist and new Edith Cowan University (ECU) Creative Research Fellow Dr Martina Mrongovius is bringing science, storytelling and interactive creativity together in a unique visual experience this month.
Twisted Vision, opening at ECU's Spectrum Project Space in Mount Lawley, invites audiences to step into an evolving world of perception, play, and perspective — where images shimmer, shift and emerge through movement and participation.
Technology meets imagination
Dr Mrongovius is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and curator whose work explores the intersection of holographic art and experiential media.
"My creative practice involves holographic design and participatory co-creation to interrogate technology with experimentation," Dr Mrongovius said.
"The images and experiences that I create bring awareness to embodiment, multidimensionality, resonance and emergence."
Twisted Vision features images created with the use of both hi-tech and low-fi techniques – a home-made pinhole camera, the popular game engine Unreal, and laser holography.
Visitors are encouraged to create a polarisation twisting leaf for the gallery tree and follow a gecko into the poetic resonance of procedural composition.
Collaboration and curiosity
Throughout her career, Dr Mrongovius has embraced creative collaboration — co-producing a wide range of projects, including holograms for a satellite, a floating art-raft down the Ganges River, and even a quantum physics comic book adventure game played live across Melbourne.
"I create through collaborations that explore how we experience the world together," she said.
Before joining ECU as a Creative Research Fellow earlier this year, Dr Mrongovius held key roles in developing cultural spaces around the world, including the Center for the Holographic Arts in New York and the Lake Arts Precinct on Awabakal Country, NSW.
Visit Twisted Vision
From immersive environments and video montage to holographic installations, Twisted Vision is designed to grow and change across the month, reflecting the complexity of perception itself.
Twisted Vision opens Thursday 19 – Saturday 21 June & Tuesday – Thursday 26 June, 10am – 2pm at Spectrum Project Space, Edith Cowan University, Building 3, 2 Bradford Street, Mount Lawley.
ECU alumni are warmly invited visit the exhibition for an exclusive alumni event on Thursday 26 June. For more information or to register visit the trybooking webpage.
For more information and updates on the exhibition follow @spectrum.ecu on Instagram.
