About
Three Eyed Rat is an immersive installation art and experience design production crew led by Shing Yin Khor. We make games, large and small art installations, and strange little experiences. We are especially interested in the intersection of science fiction and fantasy with new human rituals, and collaborative worldbuilding.
Three Eyed Rat builds universal narratives that envelope the audience-participant in immersive alternate realities.
The greater collective of collaborators consists of a motley bunch of theatre designers and educators, carpenters, mechanics, welders, game designers, programmers, filmmakers, and various other maker types.
Our Design Work
Remember August(2022)
A Mending(2021)
Field Guide to Memory(with Jeeyon Shim)(2021)
The Gentle Oraclebird, Indiecade (2019)
The Blue Ox Bar, XOXOfest, Portland, OR (2018)
The Gentle Oraclebird, 934 Gallery, Columbus OH (2017)
Salvage Station No. 8, Beam Camp, New Hampshire (2017)
Apothecary, Stranger Factory, Albuquerque, NM (2017)
The Last Apothecary, Burning Man 2016
The Last Outpost, Burning Man 2014
The Dusty Junk, Burning Man 2011-2014
“The Last Outpost presented a space for visitors to act in their own individual stories. Upon entering this detail oriented structure, visitors were invited to interpret the strange scribbled notes, warped surveillance camera footage and the rusty cages filled with dolls heads however they chose to. One thing remained clear however, there was some kind of underlying story within this outpost which would spark almost anyone’s curiosity.”
About Shing
Trained as a theatrical designer, Shing is obsessed with building universes and collections filled with awkward creatures and yearning people trapped in a world of heroic futility.
Their experience and game design work is rooted in their work as a builder and artist - large intimate and immersive art installations, and keepsake games centered on the bridge between physical making and traditional tabletop RPGs, kind and awkward emotional connections, and new traditions and rituals. They are the designer and creator of the embroidery and map-marking keepsake game A Mending, the ongoing mail-LARP Space Gnome Space, the Space Hobo Divination Board, The Gentle Oraclebird (presented at Indiecade 2019 and 2020) and co-designer(with Jeeyon Shim) of the solo journaling keepsake game Field Guide to Memory.
Their immersive and narrative haunted house art installations, The Last Outpost and The Last Apothecary, both built in collaboration with their installation art crew(The Black Rock Civilian Defense Corps), received grants from Burning Man for their 2014 and 2016 festivals. In 2017, they completed another large scale science fiction-themed site specific installation, Salvage Station No. 8, in conjunction with Beam Camp in New Hampshire.
Hire Us
We are interested in designing and building site specific immersive installation work. Let us know if you have a space you want us to fill, your timeframe, and your budget. We are willing to work with crowdfunding campaigns and early-stage grant proposals.
Shing is often available for writing, speaking and teaching engagements. They have taught workshops and spoken at Bryn Mawr University, Dartmouth College, Harvard, and UIUC, and been a National Park Service Artist-In-Residence twice. They enjoy teaching and speaking about the following:
Collaborative Worldbuilding
Building Object-Narratives (storytelling + prop building)
Invitations to Play: Designing Interaction Cues for Immersive Installations
Zine and Cartooning Workshops
Writing Memoir and Autobio Comics
Wanna talk?
3eyedrat at gmail.com