[embed]https://youtu.be/U_VqXGSQSCU[/embed] Experimenting with Immersive Technologies in Journalism Journalism has always been an immersive experience; its purpose is to bring the reader into the story, to more deeply understand what happened, and why,...
[embed]https://youtu.be/Zr33-8Kvk6c[/embed] Earth Other Earth The first headset that allowed for digital and physical space to co-exist in the perception of the viewer was called The Sword of Damocles, from Cicero’s story of...
[embed]https://youtu.be/3NfMW-pQZL0[/embed] We Met in Virtual Reality, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition, follows the lives of real-life couples who met in VR during the pandemic. Hunting’s innovative film draws...
[embed]https://youtu.be/nXN1zi7s_38[/embed] Captured – Storytelling with Digital Doubles Many apps allow people to create a virtual likeness of themselves for fun social media purposes, but can digital doubles become agents in a narrative...
Telling Stories through Saved Objects: The Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project How might interactive documentary tools expand the meaning of archives as well as public storytelling about history itself? How...
Augmented Reality in Web3 In this talk, augmented reality pioneer Asad J. Malik will share his journey of developing augmented reality as a new medium of expression from interactive experiences at film...
KUSUNDA: A co-creative immersive journey towards language revitalization What makes a language fall asleep? And what does it take to awaken one? KUSUNDA is a voice-driven VR experience co-created with the...
Creating Collaborative Nonfiction: Site-Specificity, Sound-Led Experiences, and Liveness Interdisciplinary live artists Saunders and Schneider will discuss their collaborative devising practice on CURRENT, including creation and research processes in format and form, as...
Space in the Mind of a Machine If machines can “learn” or “process” individual and collective memories, can they also dream or hallucinate about them? Since 2016, Refik Anadol Studio has...
Natasha Blatsiou is a documentary filmmaker, writer and producer. She has directed and produced short films that premiered and were awarded in international documentary festivals. She has also produced and...