Nell Whitley

Eleanor (Nell) Whitley has a reputation for driving forward ambitious work in a variety of forms – live events, art installations & digital media – her collaborations with Marshmallow Laser Feast (where she is Executive Producer) demonstrate a unique vision for the future of creative experiences. She has produced the critically acclaimed In the Eyes of the Animal (Sundance New Frontier 2016, Wired Award for Innovation in Experience Design) and other mixed reality works, including; A Colossal Wave (SXSW 2018), Treehugger (Tribeca Film Festival Storyscapes Award 2017 & Best VR Film at Arles Festival) and We Live in an Ocean of Air which premiered at the Saatchi Gallery, London (2018-9).

Nell Whitley 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.