Cabinet of Curiosity is a project-in-progress. It grows out of the collaborative project with Redmond Bridgeman, The Natural History Primer. The online entries here function much like a traditional visual journal, testing ideas, developing concepts, and documenting development.

The current focus is on the natural history of Australia, investigating New South Wales’s south coast at present, and paying particular attention to living organisms, geology, and the climatic and seasonal weather of the region.

The project aims to bring together works and artefacts executed in a diverse range of medium including photo-etching, animation, digital screen works, and electronic interactivity into a coherent environment. The idea is to create a space that is analogous to an 18th century ‘wunderkammer’ where visitors engage with ideas through physical means (such as, opening of drawers or flipping of a book). One of the strategy is to create open-ended interaction enabled by simple physical computing / hidden electronics in order to develop an engaging work that encourages visitors to discover meanings within the works and make connections between them.

Jo Law