Immersive video environments: Investigating the impact of “wraparound” media

Immersive technologies such as VR and binaural audio promise greater levels of audience engagement whereby one may lose oneself in an experience through a sense of presence or achieve higher levels of subject identification via an “empathy machine” – this project aims to devise how these claims may be tested while developing novel storytelling technique

Telenesia Catalogue

A transmedia project themed around archive film and “glitch” - the work includes curation, collaboration, video installation and investigation into cultural memory. Materials are published and comprehensively documentated via the url http://www.telenesia.com , in addition, a catalogue has been produced (ISBN) in the form of an artists book. The key installation which was supported via external funding from Arts Council UK, involved a video installation, curation of work from artists across EU and the commission of new work from a UK sound artist. A body of short films based on the Tarot archetypes were developed in collaboration with a sound artists and composers which have featured at film festivals. Telenesia 009 – Invited to One Minute Film Festival – Switzerland Aarau – 22nd to 24th August 2010 Telenesia showing at Quay Arts – Newport – 10th September to 15th October 2011 Films from Telenesia showing in competition at One Minute Film & Video Festival Aarau 16th to 19th August 201

The Interactive Forest

The Interactive Forest engages with the heritage and landscape of the New Forest (an area of that covers one third of Hampshire) and involves generating digital content for exhibition, electronic publishing (pdf) and the Internet. The area has a rich history in terms of art and design as it was in the New Forest village of Boldre that William Gilpin developed critical analysis of the landscape and the “picturesque”. Later, the New Forest landscape became appropriated by cultures of the imagination, as travel to the countryside became more fluid with the onset of industrialisation. Work involves researching and working with the Archive based at the New Forest Visitors Center that houses texts and images relating to the natural and social history of this area. An exhibition has been booked within the gallery timetabled for November 2013 - this combines modern image making, interactive video and archive references