https://melissairaheta.com melissairaheta Sun, 21 May 2023 12:08:45 +0000 https://melissairaheta.com en https://melissairaheta.com/Home-copy Sun, 21 May 2023 00:50:14 +0000 melissairaheta https://melissairaheta.com/Home-copy https://melissairaheta.com/Home Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:34:39 +0000 melissairaheta https://melissairaheta.com/Home https://melissairaheta.com/Info-me Thu, 16 Feb 2023 11:04:48 +0000 melissairaheta https://melissairaheta.com/Info-me I’m a designer, technologist and educator with a background in architecture, working across spatial, digital and immersive media. My practice explores how complex systems, from the built environment to cultural knowledge and medical data, can be translated into spatial, sensory experiences that support understanding, care and public engagement. Through data-driven workflows, spatial capture and collaborative research, I work with scientists, curators, communities and educators to make the unseen perceptible and meaningful. I’m particularly interested in the shared experiential ground between sensory digital storytelling, art, computing and the built environment. I currently hold the position of Experimental Technology Coordinator at the NExT Lab Accelerator, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne. M.Arch School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University - I work and live in Naarm on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. All work copyright © Melissa Iraheta <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1029bc1cd609a84dd3ac953c00622439af5e1d60d418ba4cd608a7e868142d62/Mel-Portraits_Export_website_small.jpg" data-mid="179415046" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1029bc1cd609a84dd3ac953c00622439af5e1d60d418ba4cd608a7e868142d62/Mel-Portraits_Export_website_small.jpg" /> https://melissairaheta.com/Ghost-of-Grainger-1 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:45:15 +0000 melissairaheta https://melissairaheta.com/Ghost-of-Grainger-1 The Ghost of Grainger 2022 Melbourne Design Week Point Cloud Audio-Reactive animation, 3D Printed and CNC-milled Sculpture Part of Melbourne Design Week 2022, a collaboration between the Victorian Government and the NGV, Sounding Grainger is an ambitious project that will require the visitor to reflect on new and different ways of imagining gallery spaces. Sydney Miller’s composition is a multi-channel soundscape inspired by, and in response to, the physical architecture of the building and video composition. The visual peice is an audio-reactive point cloud animation based off a lidar scan of the building that react’s to Miller’ sound composition. Artists: Rochus Hinkel with Melissa Iraheta and Edward Yee Sound Artist: Sydney Miller Interactive animation design and development: Melissa Irahetahttps://www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews/exhibition-review-sounding-grainger-2538664/ <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b1eed03e3233a713363d0a780a221f8a0c503b2686e778fe8bb327c028de61b/GRAINGER-01.jpg" data-mid="168497592" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b1eed03e3233a713363d0a780a221f8a0c503b2686e778fe8bb327c028de61b/GRAINGER-01.jpg" /> <img width="2832" height="4240" width_o="2832" height_o="4240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93bdf3827d3e27aba841d0bba7e2cb35294283315c3fa0742e39e871055c6fc9/GRAINGER-02.jpg" data-mid="168497593" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93bdf3827d3e27aba841d0bba7e2cb35294283315c3fa0742e39e871055c6fc9/GRAINGER-02.jpg" /> <img width="2832" height="4240" width_o="2832" height_o="4240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3404065f799b644d6cab5df22c187f9e0358dbd10ffbd890fde1028fcaee61cf/GRAINGER-04.jpeg" data-mid="168497595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3404065f799b644d6cab5df22c187f9e0358dbd10ffbd890fde1028fcaee61cf/GRAINGER-04.jpeg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/130ae2f733d4e04cec6b8e5f24f2440ae918446f7baee693a7eb7c48c507b7d5/GRAINGER-03.jpg" data-mid="168497594" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/130ae2f733d4e04cec6b8e5f24f2440ae918446f7baee693a7eb7c48c507b7d5/GRAINGER-03.jpg" /> https://melissairaheta.com/Getting-Back-on-Country Sun, 21 May 2023 12:08:45 +0000 melissairaheta https://melissairaheta.com/Getting-Back-on-Country Getting Back on Country 2021-2023 Getting Back On Country is a Traditional Owner led transdisciplinary research project that furthers ongoing partnerships between the University of Melbourne and the Olkola Aboriginal Corporation. Point Cloud VR Animation, 3D Scanning, 360-Video documentation, Photogrammetry. The Nukakurra Cultural Story Place – lmmersive Experiences of Country,&nbsp; is part of a pilot project, Getting Back on Country, that undertakes design-based research in connection with the digitisation of Olkola cultural archives and sig­nificant sites. This project innovatively transcends dis­ciplinary expertise to provide significant social, cultural and economic benefits for Olkola People as identified by Olkola People, exemplifying a collaboration process that supports Indigenous self-determination on Country. Presented by the Olkola Aboriginal Corporation in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning The University of Melbourne Olkola Aboriginal Corporation Uncle Mike Ross (chairman), Debbie Symonds (CEO), Uncle Jack Low, Kathrine Samuel Project Team: Mitchell Ransome and Melissa Iraheta Faculty of Architecture, Building and PlanningThe University of MelbourneDr Rochus Hinkel Perspectives Exhibition presented by Collective Futures and the Australian Institute of Architects, as part of Melbourne Design Week 2023. <img width="2646" height="1764" width_o="2646" height_o="1764" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afce99799d3a529dded42deca56c270dcd444f6050313dbfaae5931091572b5c/049A7215_smaller.jpg" data-mid="179442113" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/afce99799d3a529dded42deca56c270dcd444f6050313dbfaae5931091572b5c/049A7215_smaller.jpg" /><img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bce6a90ddfaf84adeb5f24e356002e861f0b02a4c3f9b915a1a35507d41f240/049A7308.jpg" data-mid="179440708" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6bce6a90ddfaf84adeb5f24e356002e861f0b02a4c3f9b915a1a35507d41f240/049A7308.jpg" /><img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1852abd35d645c2c105d8268ecc44d429e45e9c453969d5e9fe6c751422bd468/PXL_20230520_015153133_edited.jpg" data-mid="179440994" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1852abd35d645c2c105d8268ecc44d429e45e9c453969d5e9fe6c751422bd468/PXL_20230520_015153133_edited.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34936b9c8a59af45c5e6376f0c0ebcd1c590ec0ab6ab7aecdcc935f224d688b7/PXL_20230520_023615470.MP.jpg" data-mid="179440897" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34936b9c8a59af45c5e6376f0c0ebcd1c590ec0ab6ab7aecdcc935f224d688b7/PXL_20230520_023615470.MP.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20b00d5ed1180b2e81b35a46b6bc817e93a6c91b50ed298074ba77300211adaa/PXL_20230520_023127687.jpg" data-mid="179440899" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20b00d5ed1180b2e81b35a46b6bc817e93a6c91b50ed298074ba77300211adaa/PXL_20230520_023127687.jpg" /> Stills from the VR Nukakurra Cultural Story Place experience. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/277fea9d5172b2d37626ec81e2a57b304ef94031feb11ac90ad4d2c5f06555ee/scarTree.jpg" data-mid="179441802" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/277fea9d5172b2d37626ec81e2a57b304ef94031feb11ac90ad4d2c5f06555ee/scarTree.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/637bd3dbae0251e73be07c9302b298c4e996d3cb904be34d8d44e210540f39f8/creek.jpg" data-mid="179441801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/637bd3dbae0251e73be07c9302b298c4e996d3cb904be34d8d44e210540f39f8/creek.jpg" /> https://melissairaheta.com/Doppelganger-and-Zombies Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:49:30 +0000 melissairaheta https://melissairaheta.com/Doppelganger-and-Zombies Doppleganger and Zombies 2022The David Roche Foundation, Adelaide 3D Printed and CNC-milled Sculpture Doppelgänger and Zombies presents a collection of physical and digital artworks of surprisingly playful, highly crafted artworks, based on the application of cutting-edge digital technologies for their fabrication. Concepts and meanings are developed through an investigative and associative approach, using story-telling and the staggering of ideas that enrich the works and help develop their meanings.The physical and digital artifacts are developed and fabricated, using 3D scanning and 3D printing, CNC milling.Artists: Dr. Rochus Hinkel with Melissa IrahetaDigital design and development: Melissa IrahetaFabrication: Mitchell Ransome Exhibition review: Doppelgänger and Zombies | ArtsHub Australia <img width="1250" height="833" width_o="1250" height_o="833" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6752ed87bc31ee0683501f330428959e77d83bda2ec21c1216bce1bf547008bc/038_Dopplegangger-Exhibition_Export-8.jpg" data-mid="168494349" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6752ed87bc31ee0683501f330428959e77d83bda2ec21c1216bce1bf547008bc/038_Dopplegangger-Exhibition_Export-8.jpg" /> <img width="1250" height="833" width_o="1250" height_o="833" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f298db80f51483fb54c949c3e4b6d33e77b6d9fb10c76ac583b9b3a4c065428/038_Dopplegangger-Exhibition_Export-10.jpg" data-mid="168494350" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f298db80f51483fb54c949c3e4b6d33e77b6d9fb10c76ac583b9b3a4c065428/038_Dopplegangger-Exhibition_Export-10.jpg" /> <img width="1250" height="833" width_o="1250" height_o="833" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07ec837900fecfda65259851cf7fe9a2f6c6ee34054bbb9a6b611e6c1c97bfb7/038_Dopplegangger-Exhibition_Export-14.jpg" data-mid="168495715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07ec837900fecfda65259851cf7fe9a2f6c6ee34054bbb9a6b611e6c1c97bfb7/038_Dopplegangger-Exhibition_Export-14.jpg" /> <img width="1250" height="833" width_o="1250" height_o="833" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e920ad81a4dad7f1cbc7ff6255d0296e0d8a13ed84cb4d6d02dc7793812b04f/038_Dopplegangger-Exhibition_Export-16.jpg" data-mid="168495716" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e920ad81a4dad7f1cbc7ff6255d0296e0d8a13ed84cb4d6d02dc7793812b04f/038_Dopplegangger-Exhibition_Export-16.jpg" /> <img width="1250" height="833" width_o="1250" height_o="833" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e2762db4f46e2e1cef62acb6ea3e0011eaceee5751385a387bb8f20b0179f6d/038_Dopplegangger-Exhibition_Export-17.jpg" data-mid="168495717" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e2762db4f46e2e1cef62acb6ea3e0011eaceee5751385a387bb8f20b0179f6d/038_Dopplegangger-Exhibition_Export-17.jpg" /> <img width="1250" height="833" width_o="1250" height_o="833" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aba42503307f319292de50247952c9a53d09a0bf6b58e49f5169d5224c159155/038_Dopplegangger-Exhibition_Export-6.jpg" data-mid="168495713" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aba42503307f319292de50247952c9a53d09a0bf6b58e49f5169d5224c159155/038_Dopplegangger-Exhibition_Export-6.jpg" /> https://melissairaheta.com/Doppleganger-and-Zombies-Animation Wed, 15 Feb 2023 12:15:56 +0000 melissairaheta https://melissairaheta.com/Doppleganger-and-Zombies-Animation Doppleganger and Zombies, The Music Lesson &amp; X-Frame Stool 2022The David Roche Foundation, Adelaide Point Cloud Audio-Reactive animation Doppelgänger and Zombies presents a collection of physical and digital artworks of surprisingly playful, highly crafted artworks, based on the application of cutting-edge digital technologies for their fabrication. Concepts and meanings are developed through an investigative and associative approach, using story-telling and the staggering of ideas that enrich the works and help develop their meanings.The animation forms part of the audio-reactive projection artwork of the exhibition.&nbsp; artworks that are created based on 3D scans of masterpieces from David Roche’s 18th and 19th century collection of decorative arts objects. Artists: Dr. Rochus Hinkel with Melissa IrahetaAnimation development: Melissa Iraheta <img width="2834" height="3779" width_o="2834" height_o="3779" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d9d253c179b7247a49d6f7614c2f8b7d9e4bbff6324751cc67e657615f07772/XframeStool_PRINTS-2.png" data-mid="168510066" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d9d253c179b7247a49d6f7614c2f8b7d9e4bbff6324751cc67e657615f07772/XframeStool_PRINTS-2.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1333" width_o="2560" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc8170c10a5d142e1181a941ac14a31575403e89daf9b353210f307e109a5fe2/zom-8.PNG" data-mid="168509062" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc8170c10a5d142e1181a941ac14a31575403e89daf9b353210f307e109a5fe2/zom-8.PNG" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce8bfd7a3e7c46cd74ef7704adf39ccb6761c28670cb983d9d5bb42afc64d635/MusicLesson_Zombie_FINAL3.00_03_04_07.Still006.png" data-mid="168502606" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce8bfd7a3e7c46cd74ef7704adf39ccb6761c28670cb983d9d5bb42afc64d635/MusicLesson_Zombie_FINAL3.00_03_04_07.Still006.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab6e3460d37a169e859dfad7c6395dea8f2fcd4e63b2b77e27bdd895d75ce041/MusicLesson_Zombie_FINAL3.00_02_45_07.Still004.png" data-mid="168502608" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab6e3460d37a169e859dfad7c6395dea8f2fcd4e63b2b77e27bdd895d75ce041/MusicLesson_Zombie_FINAL3.00_02_45_07.Still004.png" /> https://melissairaheta.com/In-Keplers-s-Gardens-Voices-of-Country Wed, 15 Feb 2023 12:29:10 +0000 melissairaheta https://melissairaheta.com/In-Keplers-s-Gardens-Voices-of-Country Voices of Country2020Ars Electronica: In Keplar's Gardens Festival 360 VR film from 3D Lidar Scanning and Unreal Engine This VR 360 degree film is set in the rural landscape of the Dja Dja Wurrung in southern Australia. The project tells stories of the land from different perspectives, allowing the audience to move through the site by engaging in a VR environment.&nbsp; The audience traverses three different settings: the pre-colonial forest, the colonial farm, and the post-colonial farmland envisioned for a utopian future. Artists: Dr. Rochus Hinkel with Tony Yu and Melissa Iraheta (NExT LAB)- Film development: Tony Yu and Melissa raheta <img width="2558" height="1440" width_o="2558" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e52b6a3e080354ca2264633cc313b7b234b4e97dbc3fd14eff62d31adc5f433e/Ars1.PNG" data-mid="168511806" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e52b6a3e080354ca2264633cc313b7b234b4e97dbc3fd14eff62d31adc5f433e/Ars1.PNG" /> <img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99cc8de5380010ea3dd4a0c7acbe98af8b8dbe5113755d60df50f0e72861a35d/image_1200_675.png" data-mid="168512395" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99cc8de5380010ea3dd4a0c7acbe98af8b8dbe5113755d60df50f0e72861a35d/image_1200_675.png" /> https://melissairaheta.com/XR-Model-The-Field Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:31:48 +0000 melissairaheta https://melissairaheta.com/XR-Model-The-Field XR Model, The Field Melbourne Design Week 2021 Mized Reality Installation&nbsp; The Field is a public mixed reality installation situated outside the NExT Lab.&nbsp; The works in the installation question colonial concepts of ownership, address the extinction of species, develop sites for alternative food production and create places for cultural production, listening and learning.&nbsp; Mixed Reality model development by NExT LAB (Tony Yu and Melissa Iraheta) Physical Fabrication: Fab Lab (Mitchell Ransome, Darcy Zelenko, Danny Ngo)Led by Associate Professor Rochus Hinkel, and Dylan Newell (2022) Selected works by Ashleigh Miller &amp; Carmel Michener (2022) and Maria Bulmaga, Gina Dahl Liam Maddern-Wellington, Gabrielle Miegeville-Little, Dylan Newell. Politics and Utopia in Architecture Exhibition: MSD Studio 40 XR – Melbourne Design Week 2021 <img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b54451d33a0abb7781231a0d6fdb1346a6c0525a2fa603dd6129f221b46678a6/large_02.png" data-mid="168714568" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b54451d33a0abb7781231a0d6fdb1346a6c0525a2fa603dd6129f221b46678a6/large_02.png" /> <img width="1292" height="968" width_o="1292" height_o="968" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e927ee829ddd725e2edba4409c838e8dacbb4b1db688dd5e7ffd1910ad96e1b0/01.JPG" data-mid="168713957" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e927ee829ddd725e2edba4409c838e8dacbb4b1db688dd5e7ffd1910ad96e1b0/01.JPG" /> <img width="1292" height="966" width_o="1292" height_o="966" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a01ebb220b3fbf4a9f423f12a08636b68d957e7a20c4f3dd665d7d19e152951d/02.JPG" data-mid="168713958" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a01ebb220b3fbf4a9f423f12a08636b68d957e7a20c4f3dd665d7d19e152951d/02.JPG" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d145a16ec9db3742067bfda355c5aa49189f97202c615d55e368cad9dfed2aa4/026_Rochus-Model_Export-6-of-19.jpg" data-mid="168714678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d145a16ec9db3742067bfda355c5aa49189f97202c615d55e368cad9dfed2aa4/026_Rochus-Model_Export-6-of-19.jpg" /> https://melissairaheta.com/SensiLab-Studio Thu, 16 Feb 2023 22:52:40 +0000 melissairaheta https://melissairaheta.com/SensiLab-Studio SensiLab, MADA 2017 Studio Roland Snooks, Melbourne 3D Printed polymer&nbsp; SensiLab Studio is a robotically 3D printed polymer meeting room located at Monash Universty in Melbourne, and designed and developed by Studio Roland Snooks. This is a pioneering project in the application of 3D printed polymers to permanent building structures. The polymer panels have passed the relevant fire and building codes within Australia. Project Team: Roland Snooks (Design Director), Sean Guy, Melissa Iraheta, Marc Gibson, Andres Rivera, Austynn MacHado. Research and fabrication of the 3D printed panels were undertaken by RMIT Architecture and the Architectural Robotics Lab. <img width="1200" height="772" width_o="1200" height_o="772" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34809750bd8bfb29d58db3a1fb18ae73a332d6bc91c38a05ef7c27a5be852d83/3374-interior_SensiLab_StudioRolandSnooks_PeterBennetts_10_new.png" data-mid="168717329" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34809750bd8bfb29d58db3a1fb18ae73a332d6bc91c38a05ef7c27a5be852d83/3374-interior_SensiLab_StudioRolandSnooks_PeterBennetts_10_new.png" /> <img width="1000" height="1158" width_o="1000" height_o="1158" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/476bee43aa2e11c32b4aa5514b6578956dead3912dcafed0eec6c1e9ced013c0/IMG-2975.jpg" data-mid="168714812" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/476bee43aa2e11c32b4aa5514b6578956dead3912dcafed0eec6c1e9ced013c0/IMG-2975.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1158" width_o="1000" height_o="1158" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d33c51561e794e5b8bc891ad849eda75172a4e85490b002eb63ed92fd9ebab0/IMG-2975_new.png" data-mid="168717380" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d33c51561e794e5b8bc891ad849eda75172a4e85490b002eb63ed92fd9ebab0/IMG-2975_new.png" /> <img width="1200" height="960" width_o="1200" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2127d250894155b17a3d81e586f3c4fe81fea375b9dee3dc60893fefcb3d9d20/3374-interior_SensiLab_StudioRolandSnooks_RMIT_12.png" data-mid="168717495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2127d250894155b17a3d81e586f3c4fe81fea375b9dee3dc60893fefcb3d9d20/3374-interior_SensiLab_StudioRolandSnooks_RMIT_12.png" />