Thread by @kentbye

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This thread will have immersive storytelling insights from the 17 interviews (12.5 hrs) that I did at @idfa @DocLab 2019.

Lots of great conversations digging into the theory & practice of experiential design principles.

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@idfa @DocLab 2/ IN THE EVENT OF A MOON DISASTER was a deep fake with a synthesized voice of a Nixon speech that never happened by artists @franpanetta (MIT's Center for Virtuality) & Halsey Burgund.
Explores design process, ethics, & philosophical discussions of truth:
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta 3/ ONLY EXPANSION was @_dspk's augmented audio tour with real-time processing of the surrounding soundscape mixed with produced sound to transport you to a future modified by climate change.
Super trippy & won a Special Jury Award for Creative Technology:
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk 4/ ROZSYPNE is about the aftermath of the MH17 flight being shot down in Eastern Ukraine. It's an immersive story in VR told from a Ukranian point of view. I break down the experiential & narrative design process with co-directors @wzzzt & @LisaWeeda.
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda 5/ NERD_FUNK was a personal favorite experience. Very surreal & architecturally interesting. It explored embodiment with a virtual phone in VR, but also digital preservation of avant-garde artist Instagram stories. I unpack it all with creator @alllesss:
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss 6/ ARTIFICIAL: ROOM ONE was an interactive theater piece by @1ontroerendgoed exploring the future of Turning Tests & CAPTCHA. It's art that reflects back our understanding of what AI can & cannot do, but also a deep reflection on what it means to be human:
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss @1OntroerendGoed 7/ LAST WHISPERS by @Lena_Herzog uses VR to visualize how different languages around the world are going extinct. We talk about the relationship between language & culture, and why she used VR to tell this story of silence.
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss @1OntroerendGoed @Lena_Herzog @EmblematicGroup 8/ @Rob_Eagle_'s THROUGH THE WARDROBE was a HoloLens experience in a pop-up shop in the Amsterdam Central Station. Try on clothing from a non-binary person while listening to their audio stories on gender identity with volumetric art overlaid a bedroom set
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss @1OntroerendGoed @Lena_Herzog @EmblematicGroup @Rob_Eagle_ 9/ LOOK INSIDE was the hottest ticket at @DocLab. You take an audio tour of a complete strangers house, which tests your boundaries while exploring the dialectic between public vs private and self vs other.
Tons of experiential design insights in this one.
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss @1OntroerendGoed @Lena_Herzog @EmblematicGroup @Rob_Eagle_ 10/ @arte_interactif has produced over 60 XR immersive stories over the past 5 years.
I talk with @Meseberg about ARTE's dedication to funding innovation in storytelling with VR, AR, & AI.
We also talk about VR relative to the history of other mediums.
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss @1OntroerendGoed @Lena_Herzog @EmblematicGroup @Rob_Eagle_ @ARTE_Interactif @Meseberg 11/ I talk w MIT @opendoclab founder @WilliamUricchio about their mission to bring "storytellers, technologists, & scholars together to explore new documentary forms with a particular focus on collaborative, interactive, & immersive storytelling" w XR & AI
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss @1OntroerendGoed @Lena_Herzog @EmblematicGroup @Rob_Eagle_ @ARTE_Interactif @Meseberg @opendoclab @WilliamUricchio 12/ The #BBCVR Hub produced some amazing VR work over the past couple of years. Commissioning editor @zillahwatson talks about their immersive storytelling lessons learned PDF + some good survey results from 1200+ people who tried VR at 160+ UK libraries:
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss @1OntroerendGoed @Lena_Herzog @EmblematicGroup @Rob_Eagle_ @ARTE_Interactif @Meseberg @opendoclab @WilliamUricchio @zillahwatson 13/ I talk with Professor Mandy Rose (@CollabDocs) about looking at XR ethics through the lens of immersive documentaries & Michael Renov's Producer-Subject-Audience triad, specifically the producer-subject relationship & producer-audience relationship.
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss @1OntroerendGoed @Lena_Herzog @EmblematicGroup @Rob_Eagle_ @ARTE_Interactif @Meseberg @opendoclab @WilliamUricchio @zillahwatson @CollabDocs 14/ @jayscoh got a practiced-based Ph.D. in interactive & immersive documentary (@i_docs), & spent her @SW_CTN fellow grant money seeing immersive i-doc work & wrote up a 5-point experiential design VR manifesto, which I unpacked with her at @IDFA @DocLab:
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss @1OntroerendGoed @Lena_Herzog @EmblematicGroup @Rob_Eagle_ @ARTE_Interactif @Meseberg @opendoclab @WilliamUricchio @zillahwatson @CollabDocs @jayscoh @i_docs @SW_CTN 15/ I talk with @DocLab founder @casparsonnen on the theme of "Domesticating Reality: How we shape technology & how technology shapes us," experiments in expanding exhibition locations, trends of XR & AI, & the fundamental character of an interactive piece
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss @1OntroerendGoed @Lena_Herzog @EmblematicGroup @Rob_Eagle_ @ARTE_Interactif @Meseberg @opendoclab @WilliamUricchio @zillahwatson @CollabDocs @jayscoh @i_docs @SW_CTN @casparsonnen 16/ Astrid Feringa's video essay is bringing deeper critical discourse to XR.
UK Institute of Digital Archaeology used photogrammetry to reconstruct Syrian Arch of Palmyra destroyed by ISIS.
Feringa critiques the power dynamics of the reconstruction parade
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss @1OntroerendGoed @Lena_Herzog @EmblematicGroup @Rob_Eagle_ @ARTE_Interactif @Meseberg @opendoclab @WilliamUricchio @zillahwatson @CollabDocs @jayscoh @i_docs @SW_CTN @casparsonnen 17/ This is the most brutally-honest & refreshingly-candid conversation I've ever had about climate change.
@michaela_french's CLIMATE CRIMES is a full dome experience that connects the dots between global air pollution, climate change, & human migration:
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss @1OntroerendGoed @Lena_Herzog @EmblematicGroup @Rob_Eagle_ @ARTE_Interactif @Meseberg @opendoclab @WilliamUricchio @zillahwatson @CollabDocs @jayscoh @i_docs @SW_CTN @casparsonnen @michaela_french 18/ My last @DocLab interview was with MoMA guest curator Kathy Brew, who tried her first VR experience in 1985. We talk about Char Davies' Osmose (1995), an oral history of early art in VR, & the pains of waiting in lines at XR festivals to see content.
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@idfa @DocLab @franpanetta @_dspk @wzzzt @LisaWeeda @alllesss @1OntroerendGoed @Lena_Herzog @EmblematicGroup @Rob_Eagle_ @ARTE_Interactif @Meseberg @opendoclab @WilliamUricchio @zillahwatson @CollabDocs @jayscoh @i_docs @SW_CTN @casparsonnen @michaela_french 19/ That's the end of my 17 interviews & 12.5 hours of @IDFA @DocLab coverage.
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