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Monkeystack partnered with ILA – Immersive Light and Art to transform the hyperreal artworks of acclaimed Australian artist Matthew Quick into a large-scale immersive experience.
Designed for ILA’s iconic curved LED screen, the experience guided audiences through animated worlds inspired by recurring themes and visual motifs found throughout Quick’s work. A bespoke soundscape enhanced the journey, creating a rich multi-sensory environment that encouraged visitors to move beyond passive observation and step inside the artist’s creative world.
Monkeystack collaborated with event specialists Village Gate and the South Australian Tourism Commission to create large-scale, dynamic multimedia content designed to immerse and inspire international guests at the Australian Tourism Exchange.
Monkeystack created media-rich, immersive screen content that transported guests from dawn in Venice Beach to nightfall at the fictitious Manifest Motel, accompanying a beautifully curated multi-course menu from Restaurant Aurora.
An experience designed to ignite all five senses and carry you completely into another world.
As part of the major redevelopment of the Australian War Memorial, Monkeystack designed and delivered three multimedia experiences across the Middle East Gallery and Afghanistan Gallery.
Developed in close collaboration with curators and subject matter experts, these experiences explore complex military operations, moments in history and personal stories of service through a blend of animation, interactivity and projection, creating engaging and accessible pathways into challenging subject matter.
As part of the Australian Museum’s redevelopment of the Surviving Australia permanent gallery, Monkeystack was engaged to design and develop an interactive touchscreen experience that explores the evolutionary journey of Australia’s iconic kangaroo.
Located at the centre of the exhibit, the installation pairs a responsive touchscreen with a large display, immersing visitors in a hands-on exploration of prehistoric through to modern Australian environments.
Monkeystack developed a touchscreen interactive experience for the Australian Space Discovery Centre, located in Adelaide’s technology hub Lot Fourteen, designed to communicate Australia’s extensive and varied role in space.
The interactive’s dual touchscreens allows two users to interact with a digital map of Australia simultaneously, accessing a collection of text, image and video content of various buildings and locations across Australia including launch sites science centres that support the space industry.
Monkeystack was commissioned by the Australian Museum to produce a multi-user interactive table top touchscreen experience for their new permanent gallery, Wansolmoana (One Salt Ocean).
The Australian Museum in Sydney commissioned Monkeystack to produce a touch screen interactive for their permanent Minerals gallery – an exhibition that’s been 2.7 billion years in the making!
Monkeystack was commissioned by the University of South Australia Museum of Discovery (MOD.) to bring to life an interactive exhibit conceptualised and scripted by Karl ‘Winda’ Telfer, a Kaurna cultural bearer, artist and community leader.
Monkeystack were asked to produce a spatial narrative app experience with augmented reality (AR) that brought the work of contemporary First Nations artists to life for Illuminate Adelaide: South Australia’s premier winter event that brings together the best and boldest in art, music, technology and invention from around Australia and the world.
Monkeystack are honoured to have been a part of the South Australia Remembers Service and Sacrifice projections for Virtual War Memorial Australia.
We produced a 20-minute animated narrative that was projected onto the façade of one of SA’s most iconic buildings, the Anzac House at the Torrens Parade Grounds, from sunset – midnight across 11 evenings between 1st November – Remembrance Day for the people of Adelaide to visit, pay respects and remember.
Monkeystack was commissioned to develop a large scale touch screen climate change interactive for the Changing Climate permanent gallery display at the Australian Museum, Sydney.
‘Project Space Botany’ is an educational, gamified app-based experience that Monkeystack produced for the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia as a program supported by the Department for Education.
Monkeystack partnered with the Adelaide Film Festival to produce and present Tales in Light, a new project that turns Adelaide’s physical spaces into a canvas for immersive visual storytelling.
The inaugural Tales in Light story ‘NUN HIT WONDER’, the story of Adelaide’s very own Sister Janet Mead’s extraordinary rise from a Mercy Sister to Grammy nominee, launched at the 2022 Adelaide Film Festival Opening Night Gala and ran each evening throughout the duration of the festival.
BAE Systems Australia commissioned Monkeystack to produce a launch video and a suite of mission animations to debut the ‘STRIX’, their new, one of a kind VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) uncrewed air system, at the 2023 Avalon Airshow in Geelong, Australia.
BAE Systems needed a digital solution to showcase the Hawk when in-person viewings weren’t possible.
Monkeystack partnered with BAE Systems Australia to create a photorealistic 3D animated visualisation of the Hawk Lead-In Fighter. Using reference imagery and base models, our team developed a highly accurate 3D representation of the aircraft, complete with realistic textures, materials
and livery.
Monkeystack produced 3D animations to visualise Flinders University’s outstanding discovery of fossilised footprints – the oldest evidence in the world of a reptile-like animal walking around on land.
Winner Silver– Corporate Video at AEAF (Australian Effects & Animation Festival) Awards 2025.
Smartraveller wanted to reach travellers with fresh, relatable content that cut through the noise of traditional communication. The challenge was to deliver multiple awareness messages – from following local laws and respecting local cultures, to being aware of methanol poisoning and partying safely – within a 30-second format suitable for global distribution across social, web, broadcast and on-demand platforms.
The City of Adelaide asked us to produce a festive AR experience as a fun, engaging and highly accessible single point of digital contact between Adelaide’s Christmas Festival and visitors to the City of Adelaide. We created a gamified AR experience trail across 14 City of Adelaide Christmas Festival locations that visitors to the city could easily download to see and play in Adelaide through festive-tinted glasses.
Winner Bronze – Augmented Reality at AEAF (Australian Effects & Animation Festival) Awards 2022.
Monkeystack produced an ongoing 2D animated series of ‘Know Before You Go’ reels for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s flagship consular brand, Smartraveller, in collaboration with Dentsu Creative PR.
Winner Gold – Web Viral at AEAF (Australian Effects & Animation Festival) Awards 2025.
Winner Bronze – Web Viral at AEAF Awards 2024.
IWS (Integrated Waste Services) wanted to reimagine their entry space with an engaging experience that invites school groups, clients and partners to gain a deeper understanding of what really happens to waste beyond the bin.
BAE Systems Australia commissioned Monkeystack to produce an interactive experience ‘Cube’ to debut at the Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition 2021 in Brisbane, Queensland that represented their structured brand guidelines as a modern, forward-thinking company with cutting-edge innovations.
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) recently conducted a huge remodelling project for the National Electoral Education Centre (NEEC) educational space in Old Government House, Canberra. Monkeystack was commissioned to produce a 3D interactive game for the space and provide a seamless experience between the physical and digital world.
Monkeystack produced a suite of engaging and educational interactive learning stations and games for the Marine Discovery Centre, the only coastal and marine educational facility for school-aged students and the broader community in South Australia.