Skybox is a powerful new immersive video installation created by artist Rel Pham especially for ArtSpace at Realm, examining what it means to observe and exist in a deluge of data.
This work explores the way data informs and shapes our experience of the world through near-constant observation of natural and built environments, harvested through diverse data collection points and techniques.
The video gaming term ‘skybox’ refers to the scaling up of a 3D diorama to create the sky or world around a player. Referencing video games, the natural world and architecture (including the signature Realm building in Ringwood), Rel reassembles and repurposes these domains through a combination of the real and unreal.
In an era where online images and videos are plentiful but often ripped and remixed from their context, Skybox likewise plays with the relationship between data and image. The resulting hypnotic visuals subvert the rigidity of the objective and the romantics of the subjective.
Programming in association with Skybox includes Beyond The Known - Collective Curiosities, a video projection on Realm ArtWall created by a collaboration between Ringwood Heights Primary School and University of Melbourne, Realm Library storytimes and a talk by artist Rel Pham presented in association with the Maroondah Arts Collective.
Image credit: Rel Pham, Skybox video still, 2026.
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