What people say
“...a rare genuine art-science interaction, … a touchstone example of how technology can be used to highlight the processes through which we … are moved through the world.”
Paul Graham, Professor of Neuroethology
Paul Graham, Professor of Neuroethology
“I literally saw a bird flying out of the camera…That’s a piece of magic.”
User tester , Schumacher College
"You're in this other world, this other realness. It throws you into another dimension." User tester, Lighthouse
“It immerses you and … makes you… invested in the story because … you (are) viewing it in a real location, …(and) controlling it to some extent.” User tester, Lighthouse
“Woah, what happened…? It was like my senses couldn’t compute it, then I realised there wasn’t a red thing(danger tape) there (at all)…” User tester , Schumacher College
User tester , Schumacher College
"You're in this other world, this other realness. It throws you into another dimension." User tester, Lighthouse
“It immerses you and … makes you… invested in the story because … you (are) viewing it in a real location, …(and) controlling it to some extent.” User tester, Lighthouse
“Woah, what happened…? It was like my senses couldn’t compute it, then I realised there wasn’t a red thing(danger tape) there (at all)…” User tester , Schumacher College
Small portals installed in outdoor locations display documentary video in real-world dimensions filmed from the exact vantage of the viewer. With both eyes open, one looking through the portal, the other open on the surroundings, the live and filmed worlds merge like instant photoshop, a function of our two-eyed vision. What we see constantly responds to the relative brightness and pace of action between the digital and physical versions of the world.
"I found ... the cardboard AR hack revolutionary! ... super accessible, but super-extraordinary."
Participant in XR Circus, AHRC-funded investigation into immersive performance practice
"It made me feel like I was there.... it was coming to life."
User tester VR Lab
"Very different to any other AR/VR I have done...good to experience something where you can still see the real world." User tester, VR Lab
Participant in XR Circus, AHRC-funded investigation into immersive performance practice
"It made me feel like I was there.... it was coming to life."
User tester VR Lab
"Very different to any other AR/VR I have done...good to experience something where you can still see the real world." User tester, VR Lab
Since what is happening here and now affects what we see, we become more alive to our surroundings.**These shifting mechanics invite us to recalibrate how we think about that place and who (human/more-than human)belongs.
*For walker Nan Shepherd, illusions of distance and scale in the mountains, “drive home the truth that our habitual vision of things is…. only one of an infinite number, and to glimpse an unfamiliar one, even for a moment, unmakes us but steadies us again.” (”The Living Mountain” by Nan Shepherd, 2011 p101)
** Researcher Lani Shiota found that seeing something out of the ordinary recalibrates our predictive vision so that we see the world with fresh eyes and begin to notice more.(Lani Shiota: How Awe Transforms the Body and Mind)
Developed through residencies at Blast Theory, Lighthouse and Fusebox Immersive Lab and funded through Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice and Artist Information Network Professional Development grants.