About

Luciana Haill is a British artist whose work explores lucid dreaming, memory, and nostalgia to create interactive installations, performances, and experiences. She is fascinated in bringing lost histories back to life for new audiences and works with volumetric video and photogrammetry, augmented reality, binaural soundscapes and live streaming. She has given talks internationally and was a visiting lecture on the Digital Media Arts MA at the University of Brighton. Her installations, talks and performances have taken place in international settings including The Royal Academy in London, Waag in Amsterdam and KIBLA in Slovenia, and CENART in Mexico City. Recent projects include Pioneer, an augmented reality artwork based on the Daddy Long Legs seagoing train that ran in Victorian Brighton, a Developing Your Creative Practice supported project exploring the development of online audiences and a micro commission with the Royal Shakespeare Company exploring dreams.

Inspired by techniques implemented by The Surrealists and The Beat Generation she adds neuroscientific proof in performances where she controls her own brainwave patterns using ‘Dreamachines’ & modern timed strobe lights creating soundscapes and visuals in real-time. In 2020 she embraced live streaming and was selected as one of 10 artists funded by NESTA to make a response to The Royal Shakespeare Company’s online production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream – featured in an immersive Spotlight on the Future of Live Performance gallery. She achieved a special ‘Develop Your Creative Practice fund’ in 2022 to be mentored by experts in the field of networked and mixed reality artforms.

 ‘Apparitions’ and ‘Pioneer’ are a series of augmented reality (AR) artworks with storytelling to bring lost heritage sites in her hometown of Hastings and St Leonards back to life through their reappearance as 3D models with immersive soundscapes triggered by antique postcards. The artworks have led to an interest in the changing face of British seaside towns and the urgent issue of gentrification, funded by The Arts Council of England in 2018 and 2021. With awards from The Arts Council in 2007, 2014, 2018 and 2021 she has been able to research and develop new work to engage with a wide audience. Its through public engagements that her work reaches the new eyes and collaborators – such as a new musical performance with legendary musician Arthur Brown which they debuted in ‘Bestiville’ on the Isle of Wight in 2017.

Her pioneering brainwave music was featured in a documentary about legendary electronic musician Raymond Scott by his son. Luciana was a visiting research fellow in The University of Sussex from 2011-2016 for The Department of Informatics and is ‘Head of Hypnagogia in The Institute of Unnecessary Research. In 2012 she worked in a Symposium open to students and the general public for Arts and New Sciences inside CENART in Mexico City DF.

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‘Luciana’s work is sharp and inquiring. She sets up performance installations whereby we (the audience) witness her (the artist) undertake elements of experiment and ritual on our behalf. But this is only half the story, as what the artist does really well is also simultaneously build overarching state changes for us to experience as transformational to our own senses. This blending of putting her own experiences at stake, in order to then facilitate our own sensory involvement, is a clever mechanism to draw together the science, philosophy and magical elements of her work, in ways that are as smart as they are generous.’ – Robert Pacitti, Artist, Director & Curator – SPILL Festival of Performance