Free - booking required
- Type: Arts and Technology
Meet the team behind Shapeshifter, a new location-based virtual reality installation enabling the audience to explore aspects of the natural world that are normally hidden to the human eye.
The team will share insights into the development of Shapeshifter and lead a discussion on sustainability and immersive storytelling.
Join us for this informative discussion in Broadway's Mezz Lounge. Access via stairs or lift to Floor 1.
What is Shapeshifter?
Using live motion capture within an interactive digital environment, Shapeshifter seamlessly blends storytelling and free-play.
Guided by the shapeshifting nature-sprite Púca, the audience explores aspects of the natural world that are normally hidden to the human eye.
For this Near Now Studio Talk, presented in collaboration with University of Nottingham's Virtual and Immersive Production Studio, we'll be joined by members of the project's creative team which includes:
- Co-creative Director and Actor: Maggie Bain
- Co-creative director and scriptwriter: Ruth Mariner
- Art Director: Freyja Sewell
- Technical Director: David Gochfeld
Supported by
Currently in development supported by the BFI, XR Stories, Screen Industries Growth Network, and Arts Council England.
Shapeshifter is supported by University of Nottingham's Virtual and Immersive Production Studio, as one of six practice-as-research residency projects focusing on the critical and aesthetic potential of popular and emergent immersive technologies.
This event is presented by Near Now, Broadway's studio for arts, design and technology. Find out more at nearnow.org.uk.