Monkeystack provide innovative digital solutions and produce visual content that transform people’s perception and connection with physical spaces using creative wayfinding, spatial narrative and communication elements.
We provide services in XR (Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality) experience design and development, 2D and 3D animation, visualisation, gamification of content and app development to create immersive digital spaces, navigate users through spaces, bring stories and culture to life, augment playspaces and deliver important information.
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 developed a digital experience app for the new Galkangu – Bendigo GovHub building, located in regional Victoria. Working in collaboration with Arterial Design, and co-creatively with the artists and Wartaka* (*Wartaka is a Djaara Working Group made up of Elders and knowledge holders from different clans), we created an engaging app that explains the building’s design features in detail.
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.
‘Project Space Botany’ is an educational interactive app-based game that Monkeystack produced for the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia as a program supported by the Department for Education.
Monkeystack were engaged by the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service to produce an impactful VR experience to accompany their health and wellbeing campaign, ‘Boorais and Smoke Don’t Mix’ (Boorais meaning babies or children), dedicated to their vision of a community free from the harmful effects of smoking.
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.
Monkeystack produced two interactive projection-based installations for Light Creatures at Adelaide Zoo as a part of Illuminate Adelaide, inviting South Australia to experience nature in a new light. Curious Creatures and Feeding Frenzy were two of the six installations at home in Adelaide Zoo as part of a wider collaboration with giant glowing lanterns and winter warmer food and drink stalls, giving South Australians something to get out of the house and excited about over the winter.
Monkeystack produced an AR experience app for the City of Adelaide’s Green Adelaide project to showcase their work as Adelaide’s first dedicated urban environmental specialist organisation.
Monkeystack produced 2D animation for TVCs for Crowies Paints – Paint Like a Pro campaign with Brighter.
Risk based services provider JLT Public Sector wanted video content to mark their 50th anniversary.
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 were commissioned by 57 Films to produce a 360 Virtual Reality tour of Riverland Wine as part of a South Australian centric collaboration brought to life thanks to the Australian Government’s $50 million Export and Regional Wine Support Package, alongside key stakeholders including Wine Australia, Riverland Wine, University of Adelaide, Martins Brand House and 57 Films.
The signature installation of the 2020 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Yabarra – Dreaming in Light, ran at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute from 12 Feb to 15 March. For the 31 days of the Fringe, from 10am until 10pm, over 40,000 people experienced the creation story of Tjilbruke, as interpreted by Karl Winda Telfer and the Williams clan in one of the most complex indoor projected experiences created in Australia.
First Nations viewers are advised that this may contain images and voices of people who have passed away.
As part of the Hedonism exhibit at MOD. (Museum of Discovery at the University of South Australia), Monkeystack produced F.A.B.L.E, an AR led experiential game about consent that visitors navigate via a phone app.
Monkeystack created a ‘handcrafted’ illustrated history celebrating St Hallett, the Masters of the Barossa Shiraz, and their 70 Years of Shiraz milestone.