James Wheale
Jim is one half of Stormjar Ltd, an immersive film and experience horror company and founder of Trepanner, a group exploring the modern human through pre-history, spatial music, and art.
Worked on
Feeling Food
A day of exploring, experimenting and rapid prototyping with food, taste and mid-air touch
Fabler
Fabler makes you move through stories. Literally. When you stop moving, the narrator stops reading.Jim has an ecletic body of work covering poetry, food, street games, immersive technologies and music.
Stormjar create horror productions exploring immersive theatre, creative technology and film. Their last production, The Static Sea, took place on a remote island off the coast of Wales and was featured in the BBC, Blooloop and Time Out. They are currently working with Tinopolis on a project exploring hybrid media experiences, creating a welsh language short horror film connected to an alternative reality game.
Trepanner is Jim's new arts council funded project exploring the modern human through the lens of prehistory and creative technology. The work in is collaboration with linguist Ben Bacon and Craswell Crags. Ben was the first to decipher symbols found on cave paintings dating back at least 20,000 years. Craswell is the only authenticated site of prehistoric cave art in the UK. The project includes many collaborators ranging in discipline, background and lived experience, more information can be found at trepanner.band