SXSW 2020

Design challenges for VR practitioners

Description:

Two days before I started a Doctor of Creative Industries (to investigate the role of the author in designing for VR)
I was hit in the head. My practice took on a physical but dizzy form.

My practice is my reality. But with a concussion, my practice spiralled, twisted, it hurt, and was eventually reborn. When I began designing in VR, I realised the ephemeral experience, the output of my practice, was not the art. The VR experience enabled me to let users into my practice; the art was no longer a representation but a simulation of a recursive, regenerative, emergent process that even I couldn't predict. It undermined the prioritisation given to the physical in the construction of reality. it gave me a new objective: to challenge systems and to build complex narrative systems in VR.

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Takeaways

  1. An understanding of the affordances of designing in Virtual Reality technologies from the artist's perspective
  2. An understanding of systems and virtual reality as a simulation technology
  3. An understanding of how VR creates new opportunities for artists' to explore their practice and new experiences for audiences

Speakers

Organizer

Moya Baldry, Creative Director, Emersive Realities

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  • Event: SXSW
  • Format: Presentation
  • Track: Design
  • Track 2
  • Level: Intermediate
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