Parallax Dancer is an augmented reality installation based on performance by prima ballerina Jayne Smeulders of the West Australian Ballet. Jayne was scanned while posing classically, then digitally animated within a continuously rotating prism of 4K screens. A machine-vision system tracks the location of a randomly selected privileged viewer, enabling a parallax-corrected view of the dancer to be rendered for them in real-time. The system rotates continuously to decouple the 3D ballerina's performance from the flat screens on which she is represented. In response to audience behaviour, the dancer can perform the five basic positions of ballet as well as pirouette en pointe. Parallax Dancer is a 21st century extrapolation of the classical ballerina music box automation. Shown at Curious Characters exhibition of automata artworks at the Morris Museum, NJ, USA in 2018.

The artist acknowledges assistance from: The Australia Council for the Arts, The Government of Western Australia - Department of Culture and the Arts, The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Jayne Smeulders of The West Australian Ballet, headus (3D scanning and animation), UWA Engineering student teams lead by Bradley Burne & Emerson Brophy (machine vision).