The Weapons of Choice series, hosted by Kate Davies gathers together multidisciplinary doers and thinkers to delve into the underlying processes behind the making of creative work. Engaging wild minds from the fields of art, design, technology and science in discussion, to explore how the tools available to creative minds activate our thinking in peculiar, particular ways.
Barnaby Churchill Steel is a visual artist whose work bridges experimental genres and unfamiliar mediums, forging artistry, science and technology to sculpt the malleable texture of perception. He founded the creative studio ‘Marshmallow Laser Feast’ (MLF) back in 2010. MLF's glittering hoard of sensory nuggets includes music videos for U2; light painting machines for McLaren; and ‘In The Eyes Of The Animal’, which won the Audi Innovation Award. Most recently, he and the team at MLF won the Tribeca Film Festival Storyscapes Award for Innovation in Storytelling for ‘TreeHugger, Wawona’. MLF’s raison d’être is to explore the potential of new technologies and how they can expand the senses and deepen our connection to reality.