An infinite rhythm: A creative-critical engagement with Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of Nature

Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of Nature (MLF) at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne was an exhibition of four major digital artworks that the author visited three times. This article is a creative artefact; a critique of the exhibition, its forms, trajectory and themes (nature, the interdependence of different systems of life and cycles of beginnings and endings); and a theoretical engagement with phenomenology and (creative) encounters with artworks. Through the author’s creative practice approach, a conceptual framework emerges about the viewer/reader’s (and creator’s) experience/s of embodiment, immersion and apprehension of creative works. This framework and the creative artefact extend existing phenomenological writing through describing and narrativizing shifts in the reception of the artworks on repeat visits to the exhibition, emphasizing the importance of physical and psychophysical states at the time of encounter.