Counterpilot
Counterpilot is a collective of interdisciplinary artists directed by Nathan Sibthorpe and including Mike Willmett (sound designer), Christine Felmingham (technical designer), and Elizabeth Hunt (creative producer).
Together, they create interactive performance works, activating audiences with new technology, rich design, and transmedia storytelling. Counterpilot seeks to transform the familiar, juxtaposing rich fictional worlds against a backdrop of the everyday.
Their works boldly experiment with new applications of technology. With interactive tools like geo-locative audio, SMS distribution networks, RFID voting systems and biometric sensors, Counterpilot seeks to put the audience at the centre of every performance experience – whether it be for physical journeys, experiential narrative, or heightened gameplay.
For their work Crunch Time (2018), they received the Lord Mayor’s Award for Best New Australian Work at the 2018 Matilda Awards. In its premiere presentation, Truthmachine (2019) received three awards at the 2019 Adelaide Fringe, including Best Interactive or Digital Work and the Hong Kong Tour Ready Award. According to the Age, “nobody else is making work quite like this” (Cameron Woodhead on Truthmachine, 2019).