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Data Horizons
Edinburgh International Science Festival exhibition
Contemporary Connections
Summerhall, Edinburgh
1 April – 12 May 2017



Created as the result of a 2016 Leverhulme Trust residency with the Extreme Light group at Heriot-Watt University, for the 2017 Edinburgh International Science Festival at Summerhall UK.


Black Hole Horizon 2017 is an immersive 3D sound installation developed from data sonifiction
of Extreme Light’s artificial black hole experiment. Sound design: Alex Davies.

Data Horizons 2017 documetary video produced by Alex Ingle


Slow Light 2017 is a kinetic photoluminescent sculpture that performs light in very slow movement in an adaptation of the famous Pitch Drop experiment. Emulating Extreme Light's capture of light in flight, which is slowed down by a factor of 200 m/s, this gravity experiment in light takes the unearthly speed of light and transforms it into a tangible entity, one drip at a time.

Analogue Black Hole 2017 video created from original data sourced from Extreme Light's
analogue black hole laboratory experiment


Vortex fountain 2017 embodies the behavior of light in a black hole in this visceral,
time-based encounter with otherwise untouchable phenomena.



Fluid Light 2017 video produced by Lily Hibberd with HeeHaw and Extreme Light, Heriot-Watt University