On Halloween 2014 Thrill Laboratory broadcast a live experiment created to reveal the effect of horror films on the human brain. Data was monitored and streamed online for interaction by […]
Brendan Walker is an experienced public speaker and broadcaster. He presented 3 series for Channel 4 (Titanic The Mission, The House The 50s Built and Terror In The Skies), before […]
Brendan Walker launches Studio Go Go – a 21st century ride design company, creating truly thrilling, motion-based ride experiences, using the sensing and content-delivery capabilities of mobile VR. Read more.
This summer I had the pleasure of working closely with folk-rock musician and artist Keaton Henson as he developed a new composition that explored his personal relationship with anxiety. Together […]
Thrill Laboratory™ is an ongoing project of aerial. It is dedicated to the practical pursuit of creating, producing, and examining new forms of thrilling experience. Thrill Laboratory is a fluid […]
A sensor on Hastings Pier is monitoring waves and transmitting live data over the World Wide Web. Teacups in The Hub connected to this data are exhibiting some rather unusual […]
An immersive interactive artwork based on two popular entertainment technologies: the multi millennia-old swing and the 21st century Oculus Rift – the former designed to excite the vestibular system, the […]
Captain Walker worked with Year 9 pupils to create a flotilla of steam-powered Pop Pop boats, fabricated from recycled tin cans. Boats were bio-fuelled with oil pressed from sunflower seeds, […]
The Black Box installations present fictitious impending air disasters – freezing the scene moments before impact. Each diorama captures the deliciously traumatic instant of realisation as each tranquil world is […]
I produced a collection of images capturing the emotions of riders at the fairground as they experienced a moment of ultimate thrill. I built a body mounted auto-portrait machine that […]
