Four creative teams gathered in the workshop room of a Greek youth centre, unpacking their XR projects at the first Agora XR Lab (March 8-13)
In 1989, speaking of virtual reality, Jonathan Carey wrote that “spectacular power cannot be reduced to an optical model but is inseparable from a larger
There was an irony at the core of IDFA’s DocLab programme this year. Distribution, which has long been a topic of conversation in the community,
The DocLab section of the IDFA is a key event for digital creation, in the broadest sense of the term, and returns this year with
Lui Avallos’ QUEER UTOPIA: ACT 1 CRUISING a queer man who is losing his memory recalls times from a public bathroom in his past, where
The Alternate Realities programme at this year’s just-concluded Sheffield DocFest is pared back, featuring a VR competition, an exhibition and summit in collaboration with the
Tung-Yen Chou is a Taiwanese theatre director, filmmaker and founder/artistic director of Very Mainstream Studio and Very Theatre in Taipei. TRAVERSING THE MIST, a multi-user exploration
NATALIE’S TRIFECTA premiered at IDFA, where it won a special jury award for creative technology. The interactive piece transports the viewer through the different worlds
Phenomenal friction. When the New Media team at IDFA came up with this title, they knew it would reflect a recognition of tensions around the
We will be covering IDFA DocLab again this year to dig more into the immersive and the interactive field. As the first main event (since
