Tachymorph is a new audiovisual artwork by transmedia artist Joli Boardman, created for Fed Square’s Big Screen. The work explores the instability of perception, where scale, time, and the self stretch, flicker, and dissolve.
Showing at Fed Square
28 July – 31 October 2025
Daily from 7pm – 8pm
'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 field of 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.' — Joli Boardman
Drawing on childhood experiences of perceptual distortion and the neurological phenomena of Tachysensia and Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, Tachymorph explores how reality can bend in strange and uncanny ways.
Using photogrammetry to capture body parts and found objects, the work morphs these materials into virtual environments that flicker and phase, evoking a liminal, shifting reality.
Visuals by Eek
Sound design by Calum Kenihan
Co-commissioned by Fed Square and Liquid Architecture as part of Fed Square’s digital art program.
Joli Boardman is a technologist and transmedia artist based in Naarm. His work spans light, video, sound, installation, live performance, and generative design. Guided by theoretical, metaphysical, and inner frameworks, his practice explores how technology can deepen attunement to self, others, and the subtle frequencies that shape reality.
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