Bob Jarvis creates interactive and temporal artworks that integrate music, vision, space, and code. Out of their experimental process emerge eclectic themes of intermodality, colour, polyrhythm, flight, ontology, belief, and kinaesthetics.
Recent creative output includes Belief System, a 120-channel spatial audio installation touring internationally with Ranters Theatre. Integrating 4000 recorded interviews of personal beliefs, the collaboration with Adriano Cortese and Anna Tregloan was shortlisted for The Blake Art Prize and has been presented in Australia and Europe.
From 2021-2023, Bob’s ambitious practice-led research project Aileron One realised a world-first integration of performance technology and full-sized aircraft, enabling music to be performed through the expressive medium of gliding flight, and producing published academic and creative outputs.
Earlier work Luminesce, a live audio-visual performance with vocalist Gian Slater and her choir Invenio won The International Visual Music Award in Frankfurt in 2015, recognized for its technical innovation and artistic excellence.
As a collaborator Bob designed the networked spatial audio system for Tilman Robinson’s The Quieter You Become, winning Outstanding Production Design at the Melbourne Fringe in 2025. And serving as Director of Technology for Playable Streets, Bob led the development of hardware and software for The Musical Plants, an internationally touring interactive work with an ongoing installation at Changi Airport in Singapore.
Alongside their creative output, Bob contributes to open source software efforts, lectures on music and technology, and consults as a certified trainer in the Max multimedia programming environment.
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