[ Overview ]
[ 65m LED facade · Hong Kong ]
M+ is Hong Kong's museum of contemporary visual culture and one of the largest modern art institutions in the world. For a work commissioned by M+ and Powerhouse, Ayoung Kim's Dancer in the Mirror Field, Australian collection objects were presented across the M+ facade, 65 metres of LED overlooking Victoria Harbour.
As part of the Powerhouse digital team, I worked on the collaboration, applying advanced 3D scanning to build high-fidelity digital twins of the selected collection objects.
[ Cultural Collaboration ]
Take physical objects from the Powerhouse collection and put them on a 65-metre screen on the other side of the world.
The objects ranged from a sculpture almost 10 metres tall to a brass sundial from 1744 and dance party flyers from the 1990s. Each had to be captured in enough detail to hold up at facade scale, and the work had to move between two institutions and two cities on a fixed premiere date.
Handheld 3D scanning, point clouds and digital twins built to a museum standard.
Selected objects were scanned with a handheld 3D scanner, taking a series of images from 360 degrees to generate a detailed point cloud for each one. From those scans the team built high-fidelity digital twins that could be handed to the artist's production and rendered at facade scale.
Premiered on the M+ facade on 3 October 2025 and screened nightly until 28 December 2025.
The work was presented to international audiences in Hong Kong ahead of its showcase at Powerhouse Parramatta, bringing Australian collection objects to one of Asia's most significant contemporary art institutions.
[ Scale ]
65 metres of LED facade
M+ permanent collection, one of Asia's most significant contemporary art institutions
Presented to international audiences in Hong Kong
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