ACM Fellowship Application

The Mystic Ozark immersive video exhibit is a 5 1/2 minute experience walking guests through the water cycle of Hot Springs National Park (HSNP). This was my first project for a museum, and I learned a lot through collaborating with Process Curiosity. We were able to take the complex & extremely long process of natural thermal water heating and explain it in a way that guests could walk away with a better understanding of the process, while also learning about Hot Springs, Arkansas in a new way. We also used this exhibit to help guests with disabilities feel like they were at important places in HSNP that they wouldn’t have been able to visit otherwise. To accomplish this we used live action and animated storytelling, paired with a custom spatial sound design and a projection mapped viewing space which now lives in a former bathhouse within HSNP. This project was challenging not only from a story perspective, but also from a technical perspective as we had to work with very strict rules for installing into the historic building that it calls home. It opened in May 2025, and we have had a lot of positive response from the local community, park rangers, and tourists. Being able to help tell complex stories in a new engaging way is exciting and I can’t wait to do more exhibits like this.