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Kaleidoscope of Thoughts - A 360 Immersive Installation

Project type

360 Immersive Audio/Visual Art Installation

Year of Creation

2025

Official Publications & Solo Exhibition

Published as Pictorial in IEEE VIS Arts Program hosted in Vienna, Austria - November 2025
https://visap.net/2025/contributions.html#kaleidoscope

Read here - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11299021

Solo Exhibition at ASU Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center - May 13, 2025 - May 20, 2025

Master's Thesis Project by Megha Sachdeva

Concept Developer · Project Mapper · Visual Designer · Creative Coder · Motion Designer (After Effects) · User Researcher

Sound Designer

Cambelle Gregory

Thesis Committee

Chair - Weidi Zhang
Co- chair - Sven Ortel

Technical and Set-up support

Installation set-up - Paul Amendola
Audio spatialization - Daniel Ocanto
Kaleidoscope structure - Michael Armstrong

Kaleidoscope of Thoughts is an immersive audio visual installation on the cyclical nature of thinking and the emotional architecture of the mind.

Inspired by the phenomenon of how negative can spiral into intricate tunnels of rumination, the work visualizes the mental space as a living kaleidoscope: every input multiplied, refracted, and reshaped.
Informed by conversations with individuals who shared personal moments of distress and recurring thought loops, the piece reflects on how mental patterns form, persist, and evolve. Through Generative visuals, these fragments of pain were gently transformed into affirmations, serving as a digital intervention into entrenched thought pathways.

The visuals weave together abstracted memory, dreamlike motion, and symbolic elements drawn from nature: such as the blooming Cercis canadensis, representing fading memory sequences. The use of cyanotype references the archival quality of memories, while a color-mapped emotional spectrum infuses each visual with tone and intensity. Central to the installation is the concept of the butterfly effect, suggesting that even a small shift in perspective can lead to meaningful emotional transformation.

In this kaleidoscope, healing does not come through erasure, but through reflection and reframing.

©2026 Megha Sachdeva. All rights reserved.

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