The Mirror Room - immersive projection installation

Projection Mapping & TouchDesigner — USC

The Mirror Room —

Kidspace Children's Museum · Pasadena · 2025 Projection Mapping · TouchDesigner Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide

An artwork you walk into —

The Mirror Room is an immersive projection installation created for Wired for Wonder, the multisensory exhibition at Kidspace Children's Museum in Pasadena (2025), presented in collaboration with Getty's PST ART: Art & Science Collide. Made with Professors Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger as part of USC's contribution to the exhibition — billed on the museum's site as the Infinity Room, a curving light installation with 3D surfaces.

Projection mapping and TouchDesigner drove a mirrored, light-filled room designed for a children's-museum audience — an artwork you walk into, built to survive thousands of small hands.

Why it matters: museum installations run all day, every day, unattended. The system design matters as much as the imagery.

ExhibitionWired for Wonder, Kidspace Children's Museum, Pasadena
Presented withGetty PST ART: Art & Science Collide
ProfessorsMichael Patterson & Candace Reckinger
Jordan HalseyProjection Mapping & TouchDesigner
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The Installation

Kidspace Children's Museum · 2025

The Mirror Room in motion — the mirrored, light-filled room as it runs at the museum, driven live by TouchDesigner.

Stills and renders in progress.

"Built to survive thousands of small hands —"