Barnaby Steel

Barnaby Steel is an artist and creative director of London-based experiential art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast. Barnaby’s art practice centres on the senses; enticing audiences into states of expanded perception, a space where the boundaries between bodies blur. His work is deeply rooted in scientific observation as a window that allows us to look through and beyond our own experience, to understand the complexities of things hidden from the naked eye. His work steps outside the human-centred worldview, exploring the threads that weave us into relationship with the more than human world.

Barnaby Steel will be speaking at the Digital Exhibitions Summit 2026 :

Digital Dreams: From Exhibition to Experience

What does it take to make knowledge felt in the body, not just land in the mind? We’ve spent years embedded alongside ecologists, archaeologists, and scientists, and what we’ve found is this: By supporting learning through experience, we help audiences grasp ideas and stories not only intellectually but with their senses, encountering ideas from unfamiliar vantage points. In this session, we share the methods and moments of wonder from that process. How do you make an audience feel something they didn’t know they were missing? How does technology serve a story, rather than steal it? Come with us into the fieldwork, the collections, the research as we explore new forms of culture, interrogate our relationship with the world around us and leave a glittery slug trail as we journey through the cosmos.