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In this edition we have VR storytelling at the Open City Documentary Festival. We also have a guided visit to the 2024 IBC Accelerators Media Innovation Programme kick-off event.
Losing Home: Expanded Realities at Open City Documentary Festival
Celebrating the art of non-fiction, Open City Documentary Festival aims to challenge and expand the idea of documentary in all its forms.
Losing Home will feature work by five artists ranging in form from interactive VR and mixed reality experiences to video games and multiple-channel video which all address ways in which we can become alienated from spaces which once felt familiar, be they the cities we live in, the relationships we are part of or the bodies we live in. The exhibition will include the first UK presentation of new work by artists Aay Liparoto, Patricia Echeverria Liras and Ben Joseph Andrews & Emma Roberts and will also include a new version of Alice Bucknell’s The Alluvials alongside the London premiere of Nick Smith’s We Were Both Wrong.
The exhibition’s private view will take place on Thursday 25 April between 4:30-7pm and will then be open from 12-7pm on Friday 26 – Monday 29 April. The exhibition is free and no booking is required – it is located in Rich Mix, the festival’s hub in Shoreditch.
You can read more about the exhibition here.
IBC Accelerators Media Innovation Programme
The International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) held the kick-off day for their 2024 Accelerator programme last month.
Muki Kulhan, Innovation Lead, IBC Accelerators Media Innovation Programme, gave us this introduction to this exciting and productive initiative in the media technology sector:
“Over the last five years, the IBC Accelerators Media Innovation Programme has provided a really amazing R&D sandbox for new and progressive, emerging media projects exploring new workflows, tools and techniques in XR and Game Engine led creative production. This year will be more ambitious than ever before, with XR, VR, AR and AI-led initiatives becoming truly a part of creative productions in our media, entertainment and broadcasting industries. I can’t wait to see what happens this year and we promise to keep the VRARA community updated as the projects progress!”
You can get a taste of the day in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx5inTAEOhE and read about the selected challenges here: https://show.ibc.org/accelerators-2024-challenges We plan to follow the progress of the programme throughout the year.
Do you have a story to share?
If you have a story to contribute for the VRARA London Chapter newsletter, contact John Dowsland at londonmarketing@thevrara.com.
John has many years of experience in content management & distribution for film, music and corporate communications, and currently works in calibration technology. In 2018 he joined the board of Cinema Technology Community CIC, and he has been involved in the VRARA since 2022.
