Leo Bayly Barton

/GameDesign

Leo Bayly Barton

/NewMedia

Leo Bayly Barton

/Cinema

Leo Bayly Barton

/Research

2024
Saving in Progress...: The Cultural Policy Constraining Video Game Preservation
Published by Taiwan Association of Cultural Policies

2023
'Resonance' and VR as a Tool for Preserving Cultural Heritage and Cultural Events
Presented at TNUA 2023 Symposium of Cultural Resources

2019
Generative Music as a Framework for Cinema
Published by UA Library

Leo Bayly Barton

/About

New Media Artist engaging with virtual realities and the fringes of Cinema. Focused on interculturality, preservation, and the empathetic potential of games.Currently based in Taipei.Exhibitionsportfolio

Leo Bayly Barton

/Exhibition

2026
Solo Exhibition. +wo Cultural Practice. Hsinchu, Taiwan.2025
The Wrong Biennale. Negotiated Intelligence Pavillion. Online.
Indiepocalypse #67. Online zine.
Narrascope Showcase. Philadelphia, USA.2024
Uncharted Narratives 未探索的敘事一開幕. Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan2023
Exchanging Protection - Protecting Exchange. Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan.2019
Best Documentary. Parallel. Zlatý voči Film Festival.

Leo Bayly Barton

/takeover

2025
web gameHistorical, text-based game about the erosion of democracy in 1930s Germany.As a government representative, cast your votes wiselyAwarded: Narrascope 2025 - best in show (shortlist)play now online

Leo Bayly Barton

/Nowruz

2025
educational platformer
Lead game designerA celebration of Persian culture, this educational platformer leads you through six major events enjoyed across Iran and central Asia!Enjoyed by 35,000 players!intermittently available on The Sandbox

Leo Bayly Barton

/The Bank Job

2024
heist roguelike
Lead game designerA quickfire, arcade heist game with roguelike elements.Choose your mastermind, heist the bank and escape with the most cash.Experienced by 50,000 players!watch a full playthroughintermittently available on the sandbox

Leo Bayly Barton

/Tech Noir

2024
detective rpg
Lead game designerA story-rich, retro-futurist, detective thriller.Amid a bustling dystopia, solve branching mysteries through careful deduction and stealth.intermittently available on the sandbox

Leo Bayly Barton

/Silence and Darkness

2021
narrative platformerAfter awaking in darkness you slowly come to your senses in this gentle narrative experience.play now online

Leo Bayly Barton

/For Sore Eyes

2021
VR experienceOld and alone you wait for a call from a loved one.Old age spells loneliness for many. This super short docu-narrative experience explores this through the empathetic power of VR.play now on pcVR

Leo Bayly Barton

/Cultural Imperialism

2025
installation / web installationGenerative in nature, visitors present a phrase which is recursively translated through randomized languages available in the Google Translate API.Information mutates with each translation; slowly degrading. We watch as some languages dominate, others distort, revealing the systemic bias and unequal linguistic representation within algorithmic systems.Available online (computer only)

Leo Bayly Barton

/Schrödinger's
Ethical Dataset

2025
web game
with Sahra AzadzoyAn interactive, cat-themed web game about the complex and contradictory task of achieving fairness in AI.Available online

Leo Bayly Barton

/living traces

2023
Interactive Installation
With Martha Oelschläger, Esme Wang and Matthias NaegliExploring collective memory, visitors leave analogue notes which are (fallibly) interpreted algorithmically, then projected overhead.Exhibited: C-Lab Taipei 2023

Leo Bayly Barton

/Resonance

2023
VR Experience (20m)Resonance explores how virtual reality (VR) could be a useful tool for preserving cultural heritage and cultural events.Presented in conference at the Taipei Symposium of Cultural Resources 2023.available online

Leo Bayly Barton

/Elara

2023
web installation
with Sahra AzadzoyElara turns OpenAI’s gaze inwards as a Security Engineer job application carefully generated generated using GPT-4.available online

Leo Bayly Barton

/Where is Home?

2023
multi-screen installationvideo synthesis, exploring themes of isolation and alienation.available on request

Leo Bayly Barton

/Approaching Tower

2023
VR installation
with Ivan Ho and Martha OelschlägerA diptych of virtual reality and physical scenography, deconstructing the power dynamics of physical towers.Created in max8Exhibited: ZHdK Zurich 2023

Leo Bayly Barton

/555 Progress

2018
experimental flicker filmcycles of shape and colour progress from simple to dizzyingly complex, abstractly exploring how societal complexity compounds.Note: Attached video is an abridged abstract, work is endlessly looping

Leo Bayly Barton

/(O.S.)

2020
Essay film(O.S.) or cose diverse coesistono explores the dialogue established between the documentary images of A.K. (dir. Chris Marker) and the fiction film it documents, Ran (dir. Akira Kurosawa). In turn, questioning where the value of the film-making process lies.

Leo Bayly Barton

/The Distance Between One and Two

2018
narrative short filmA traveller and a local connect across space and time through the emotional forces attempting to make them leave Seoul, South Korea.Independent production in Seoul, South Korea
Korean/italian language

Leo Bayly Barton

/Look Very Closely, What Do You See?

2019
experimental essay filmAn experimental film exploring the cinematic tug of war between creator and spectator, questioning where we locate the site of meaning in cinema.

Leo Bayly Barton

/art of the deal

2019
experimental documentaryan experimental documentary exploring the transatlantic tensions between Iran and the USA, through archival footage and interviews.

Leo Bayly Barton

/Pending

2020
anthology film
project coordinator / segment directorDrawing together filmmakers from across the globe, this anthology short film responds to the uncertain futures and stagnating presents brought on by the pandemic.created with Liam Beazley, Julien Mathus, Victor Marre-Cast, Jack Elliot Barton, Jung Jiyeong, Bec Lobo Correia, Iman Bahmanabadi, Wasamunu Hudson Sitali

Leo Bayly Barton

/Parallel

2018
experimental documentary
directorParallel brings real-world interviews from a divided Korea together into one body, through a simulated interview. exploring the conflict, contradiction and unity surrounding the 38th parallel.created as part of the Dongguk University Film Workshop