X-Reality Day Programme
Thursday 5.4.2018 9am–4pm at Annantalo Auditorium, 2nd floor
Annankatu 30, Helsinki
8.30am–9.00am Registration and morning coffee
9.00am Opening the seminar and welcoming words
Kati Kallio, the artistic director of Loikka Dance Film Festival, and Hanna Pajala-Assefa, the virtual reality programme curator of Loikka
9.15am Keynote Speech: What is VR/AR/MR and aesthetics of VR?
Santeri Suominen (FI), research coordinator at the Finnish Virtual Reality Association
10.15am Lecture: Volumetric capture as an enabling technology in physical narratives for VR&AR&MR.
This talk will offer both technical and artistic insight into Nuanc3d, a collaborative work between Finnish contemporary circus group Agit-Cirk and the creative computer vision and machine learning agency Delicode.
Julius Tuomisto (FI), CEO of Delicode Ltd. and Inni Lehtinen (FI), circus artist at Agit-Cirk
11.15am–12.15pm Lunch break
12.15pm Lecture: VR is a playground for artists from all backgrounds... Here's your invitation to join us.
VR is riddled with a lot of hype and marketing language at the moment. Attending this lecture will give you a solid theoretical and artistic foundation, that will help you to orient yourself in this new medium, so you can come join us in exploring and SHAPING this new possibility space.
Synes Elischka (FI), VR film director, PhD at Aalto University VR Lab.
1.15pm Lecture: VR – Creating New Platforms for Performing Arts
Marc Downie (US), MediaArtists OpenEnded Group
2.00pm–2.30pm Coffee break
2.30pm Artist Panel: What Drives Us to VR?
Gilles Jobin (CH), Choreographer of VR _I, Esteban Fourmi artist of WHIST and Alla Kovgan (US), director of Devil’s Lungs
Moderated by Hanna Pajala-Assefa
3.15pm–4.00pm Lecture
To be announced
Annankatu 30, Helsinki
8.30am–9.00am Registration and morning coffee
9.00am Opening the seminar and welcoming words
Kati Kallio, the artistic director of Loikka Dance Film Festival, and Hanna Pajala-Assefa, the virtual reality programme curator of Loikka
9.15am Keynote Speech: What is VR/AR/MR and aesthetics of VR?
Santeri Suominen (FI), research coordinator at the Finnish Virtual Reality Association
10.15am Lecture: Volumetric capture as an enabling technology in physical narratives for VR&AR&MR.
This talk will offer both technical and artistic insight into Nuanc3d, a collaborative work between Finnish contemporary circus group Agit-Cirk and the creative computer vision and machine learning agency Delicode.
Julius Tuomisto (FI), CEO of Delicode Ltd. and Inni Lehtinen (FI), circus artist at Agit-Cirk
11.15am–12.15pm Lunch break
12.15pm Lecture: VR is a playground for artists from all backgrounds... Here's your invitation to join us.
VR is riddled with a lot of hype and marketing language at the moment. Attending this lecture will give you a solid theoretical and artistic foundation, that will help you to orient yourself in this new medium, so you can come join us in exploring and SHAPING this new possibility space.
Synes Elischka (FI), VR film director, PhD at Aalto University VR Lab.
1.15pm Lecture: VR – Creating New Platforms for Performing Arts
Marc Downie (US), MediaArtists OpenEnded Group
2.00pm–2.30pm Coffee break
2.30pm Artist Panel: What Drives Us to VR?
Gilles Jobin (CH), Choreographer of VR _I, Esteban Fourmi artist of WHIST and Alla Kovgan (US), director of Devil’s Lungs
Moderated by Hanna Pajala-Assefa
3.15pm–4.00pm Lecture
To be announced
Sign up for the Future Screen of Dance Conference:
Participation fee:
Full programme 40€
X-reality day 30€
Notice:
For X-Reality Day we have only 50 seats. To confirm your participation we recommend you to sign up early.
Sign up by 28th of March.
Full programme 40€
X-reality day 30€
Notice:
For X-Reality Day we have only 50 seats. To confirm your participation we recommend you to sign up early.
Sign up by 28th of March.
Bannerikuva: VR_I (2017, CH), ohjaaja Gilles Jobin
