Embedded Files
VR+A was started in 2018 as in informal gathering of RCA academics, technicians and students currently working in, or with interest in the experimental use of Virtual/Augmented/Alter- Realities and other immersive media.
We aim to create a forum for discussion, provocation and support for projects, writing and critical thinking around the use of new technologies.
We are rebooting in 2024, and aim to establish events, happenings and demos across the RCA. We meet monthly.
image credit: Chuwen Xu, EEG + Touch Designer interface
External Exhibitions / Events
External Exhibitions / Events
Losing Home: Expanded Realities, 4th Floor, Rich Mix
Thursday 25 April, 4.30pm– 7pm (private view)
Friday 26 April, 12pm – 7pm
Saturday 27 April, 12pm – 7pm
Sunday 28 April, 12pm – 7pm
Monday 29 April, 12pm – 5:30pm
This year’s Expanded Realities exhibition features five non-fiction works which use moving image practices in the broadest sense of the term to address the sensation of alienation from a domestic environment. These works allow viewers to inhabit bodies, relationships and built environments which have, each in their own way, come to feel like home and which have since been transformed into hostile and unfamiliar spaces.
https://opencitylondon.com/2024-festival/programme/expanded-realities/
image credit: Jiaqi Yang, Oneness, AR Experience
RCA2024 VR and Immersive Works
RCA2024 VR and Immersive Works
Share details of where to see/experience your work in our mailing list - or tag our instagram to get a story!
VR+A Group Meetings
VR+A Group Meetings
We meet every month - rotating the location between Battersea, White City and Kensington Campus. (Kensington affected by RACS so it's tricky to get a room there)
Each has a different theme and you are invited to share demos of work in progress/experiments. We also invite theme suggestions, please email alterities@rca.ac.uk.
If you want to suggest / convene events extra to the monthly gatherings then please do and we can circulate them through the VR+A mailing list.
Upcoming Meetings
Upcoming Meetings
Date TBC Tues 23rd/30th July 3-5pm
Campus tbc
Theme:
Date TBC Tues 23rd/30th July 3-5pm
Campus tbc
Theme:
If you have a demo you would like to share and get feedback on - please do bring it along. Please bring your own equipment, or book from XR/or resource store.
If you have work to show it would be great to give me a heads up: alterities@rca.ac.uk (Please arrange equipment hire via Resource Store or XR technicians)
If you have work to show it would be great to give me a heads up: alterities@rca.ac.uk (Please arrange equipment hire via Resource Store or XR technicians)
Past Meetings 2024
Tuesday 4th June 3-5pm
Kensington Campus, DAR LG44 (Kensington - Darwin)
Theme: Shared Library + Demos
Tuesday 4th June 3-5pm
Kensington Campus, DAR LG44 (Kensington - Darwin)
Theme: Shared Library + Demos
Bring a book or text that has influenced you and we will set up a flash-library (we'll take the books home at the end of the session).
Bring a book or text that has influenced you and we will set up a flash-library (we'll take the books home at the end of the session).
If you have a demo you would like to share and get feedback on - please do bring it along. Please bring your own equipment, or book from XR/or resource store.
If you have work to show it would be great to give me a heads up: alterities@rca.ac.uk (Please arrange equipment hire via Resource Store or XR technicians)
If you have work to show it would be great to give me a heads up: alterities@rca.ac.uk (Please arrange equipment hire via Resource Store or XR technicians)
Image: Battersea Studio
We had our first meet up on Tuesday 27th Feb in 2024 during Reading Week, at the Battersea campus. We set up some VR equipment for demos, and a couple of people showed work-in-progress.
We are planning regular (monthly) meetings so that there's as much possibility of participants meeting one another. Also we will rotate the location between Battersea, White City and Kensington Campus.
If you want to suggest / convene events extra to the monthly gatherings then please do and we can circulate them through the VR+A mailing list.
Image credits: Ash Chuwen Xu
The second meeting happened on Monday 25th March in Battersea.
The theme was Walking/Navigating in VR.
Locomotion in Virtual Reality is a big challenge, participants were invited to share experiments, work in progress, or examples of interesting ways of moving in VR without teleportation (or an exquisite example of teleportation).
The second meeting happened on Monday 25th March in Battersea.
The theme was Walking/Navigating in VR.
Locomotion in Virtual Reality is a big challenge, participants were invited to share experiments, work in progress, or examples of interesting ways of moving in VR without teleportation (or an exquisite example of teleportation).
We had amazing demos from Ash Chuwen Xu, Design Products - who showed a working demo of using brainwave detection (EEG) as an interface with Touch Designer to vary the zoom in of a point cloud scan of the Natural History Museum
Jiaqi (Richard) Yang, Digital Direction, shared an AR experience that explored the sensations of dissociation as a sequence of time-and-space distorting experiences.
Tuesday 7th May 3-5pm
Location: White City, GH012
Theme: Alterities + Utopias/Other worlds
Under the theme of Alterities, this month we will look at the creation of new worlds, utopias, and the possibility of inhabiting virtual alternatives – your work ight relate to world-building, or identity-forming. Please bring demos of metahuman design, avatars, world-building, and other utopias in VR/AR/XR and other immersive media.
Tuesday 7th May 3-5pm
Location: White City, GH012
Theme: Alterities + Utopias/Other worlds
Under the theme of Alterities, this month we will look at the creation of new worlds, utopias, and the possibility of inhabiting virtual alternatives – your work ight relate to world-building, or identity-forming. Please bring demos of metahuman design, avatars, world-building, and other utopias in VR/AR/XR and other immersive media.
Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Alterity / Simulation / Immersion / Everyday / Speculative Fictions / and anything else
Archive Events:
Now Play This, Somerset House, 6 – 14 April 2024
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the festival offers engaging interaction and play for all ages to enjoy, fusing art and games under a new themed edition, Liminal: Playing between worlds.
GLOW: Spotlight on VR, Bush House Arcade, 8 March - 6 April 2024, 10:00 to 17:20
Explore a range of 12 free VR experiences showcasing leading women virtual-reality creators from around the world. Curated by Liz Rosenthal, Curator of Venice Immersive, Venice International Film Festival.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/glow-spotlight-on-vrIN SESSION: Hollywood to Heaven's Gate online talk
Thursday 21 March 2024 - FREE
Marco Brambilla with Daniel Birbaum, director of Acute Art and John Slyce, Senior Tutor, RCA to discuss how VR is changing contemporary art and the impact 3D imaging technologies have on the art world ecosystem. Free TicketsSpring 2024 VR+A relaunches at the Royal College of Art! Tues 27th Feb - Reading Week
Heartbreak and Magic, Libby Heaney from 9 – 18 February, Somerset House, Studio G31 £6
Somerset House Studios artist and quantum physicist Dr. Libby Heaney brings a new virtual reality artwork and physical installation to Somerset House Studios’ project space.Cultus, Zach Blas until 18th Feb, Arebyte Gallery
CULTUS is the second instalment of the Silicon Traces trilogy, [1] a series of moving image installations that contends with the beliefs, fantasies, and histories influential to Silicon Valley’s visions of the future. Spanning queer and speculative engagements with psychedelia, the nootropics industry, California futurism, network infrastructure, and political resistance, the trilogy surfaces the political unconscious of the tech industry. https://www.arebyte.com/home
Report abuse