Volker Kuchelmeister is an expert in immersive media, presence, embodiment and place representation for immersive applications and has worked extensively in cinematography, interactive narrative, experimental imaging, spatial mapping, interactive systems, immersive visualisation and in the performing arts. He is lead immersive designer and Senior Research fellow at the UNSW felt Experience and Empathy Lab (feel)/Big Anxiety Research Centre [BARC]. He has worked on community projects on institutional abuse [parragirls past, present]; Aboriginal mental health and trauma [Uti Kulintjaku Waumananyi: The Song on the Wind]; exploring mental health/felt states in the body [Embodimap]; developing empathy for people with dementia, [The Visit] and current projects investigating trauma and place, [Hard Place/Good Place] and many other.

Uti Kulintjaku is an innovative, Anangu or Aboriginal-led mental health project that takes its name from a Pitjantjatjara phrase that means ‘to listen, think and understand clearly’. Formed from the Ngangkari traditional healers and artists of the NPY Women’s Council, Uti Kulintjaku collaborate with UNSW fEEL Lab on original VR projects using Anangu stories to address trauma and wellbeing.