Distracted is a luminous, interactive, computational media installation of sound, light and translucent sculptural materials. The installation is informed by the Great Barrier Reef and Antarctic environments and offers audiences a profound experience that conveys the delicacy and wonder of these environments, and interconnected relationships between geographically diverse locations and human/environment interactions.

Audiences can walk through, touch, and interact with this immersive environment creating unique experiences of light and sound resulting from sensors that detect human presence. Deeper readings of the work are possible as the illumination will vary in colour, intensity and frequency of illumination to generate visualisations of ice-core sample data, coral reef growth patterns, and sea and air temperature records at specified intervals. This data has been selected because it forms a record of the planet's history, represents long periods of time, and provides a context for understanding human presence and impact on the planet.

The installation also contains kinetic elements that audiences can interact with, to generate portions of the work's power supply. These portions may be quite minimal, but serve to connect the audience to the artwork both as a form/component and a subject of the work.

The work is currently in production and will be completed in mid to late 2008. Documentation of the work, and information about exhibitions will be published mid 2008.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. The project is also supported by the Creative Industries Faculty of the Queensland University of Technology.