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Artist residency programme

 

A multidisciplinary, hybrid residency bringing together an international cohort of artists and technologists.

May – September 2022.

Immersive Assembly Vol.2 is a pilot programme for the developing cultural partnership between York and our fellow UNESCO City of Media Arts, Viborg, supported by Arts Council England and the Danish Embassy, and in partnership with Viborg Kunsthal, York Museums Trust and XR Stories. This hybrid artists residency brings together 4 UK and 2 Danish artists/studios to learn, share, network and play. This 6-month residency programme will support the artists in collaborating and creating a prototype project to showcase at Viborg Animation Festival in September. It will run in a hybrid format, beginning and ending with site-specific activity in York and Viborg comprising a series of online talks, sessions and workshops in between.

Immersive Assembly Vol 2: ‘Bodies and Geometry’, supported by Arts Council England and the Danish Embassy in London, will invite artists to consider how emergent technologies inform the relationship between bodies and geometry across ‘real’ and virtual contexts. This could be through exploring the changing thresholds of surveillance, the implications of variable identity, the potential to experience perspectives of others and provide richer experiences for those with visible and hidden disabilities, the power of play and new aesthetic possibilities afforded by immersive media.

Viborg is an incredible centre of animation and immersive media expertise, and the opportunities presented through our collaboration will be career-changing. To support the theme and create a grounded place from which the cohort can begin, we are partnering with Viborg Visuals, Viborg Kunsthal, The Animation Workshop, VIA University College and York Museums Trust, using local collections of art, artefacts and even the buildings themselves to spark new ideas, conversations and collaborations.

Contributors

Contributors

Rachel Briscoe is a co-founder and lead artist for digital story studio Fast Familiar, an award-winning interdisciplinary collaboration comprising expertise in theatre, game design, digital technology and neuroscience and psychology. Rachel primarily works as a writer and dramaturg of non-linear or audience-centric work. Outside of her work for FF, she has recently been dramaturg on a narrative escape room about climate change for Kolibri in Budapest; a ‘digital expert’ on the EU collaboration project PlayOn! and an ‘expert mentor’ on Upstart Theatre’s International Playable Theatre Lab.
Rachel Briscoe
Rachel Briscoe
Pernille Kofoed (DK) works primarily with interactive installation art, where the technology is used as material to create works that enter a dialogue with the surroundings, the contemporary and the audience. She focuses on creating context-specific works that are poetic yet shrouded in melancholy. Experimenting with new materials and technology, testing and exploring them in new ways. Her works are based on current societal challenges, abstract design and experiments with expressions.
Pernille Kofoed
Pernille Kofoed
B Wijshijer (they/them), a.k.a shrimpychip, is a queer arts practitioner of Minangkabau Indonesian and white settler descent, currently based in Tkaronto, Canada. Wijshijer makes silly sneaky videos, performances, installations, digital images and digital props. Their work interrogates computer-mediated intimacy via the societal constructions of online scams, tricks and jokes. Digital space allows Wijshijer to evade time and distance, evoking a type of pseudo-omniscient presence in a network that promotes both exhibitionism and paranoia of being seen. Interested in magic, love and transcendence within late capitalism, their work jests within the contrast of unity, bliss and the commodity.
B Wijshijer
B Wijshijer
Antonio Roberts is an artist and curator based in Birmingham, UK, working primarily with video, code, and sound. As a performing visual artist and musician he utilises live coding techniques to demystify technology and reveal its design decisions, limitations, and creative potential.
Antonio Roberts
Antonio Roberts
Alexander Whitley is a London-based choreographer working at the cutting edge of British contemporary dance. As artistic director of Alexander Whitley Dance Company he has developed a reputation for a bold interdisciplinary approach to dance making, producing technologically innovative and thought provoking stage productions as well as exploring the creative possibilities being opened up by new digital platforms. He has also created work for several of the UK's leading companies including the Royal Ballet, Rambert, Balletboyz, Candoco and Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Alexander Whitley
Alexander Whitley
Davy & Kristin McGuire are multi-award winning experiential and mixed reality artists, internationally renowned for their idiosyncratic experiments in merging physical reality and digital reality to create elegant and exquisitely crafted immersive worlds. ​ Their works have been exhibited, sold, published and screened internationally, and their critically acclaimed theatrical projects have been invited to tour to more than 100 venues in 23 different countries over 4 continents.
Studio McGuire
Studio McGuire
Kit is a leading and prolific innovator across screen-based art and interactive media. As a founder of KMA, Kit has also worked as an installation artist in the interactive, public realm creating works that have dramatically transformed many iconic spaces from London’s Trafalgar Square to Shanghai's Bund, and as a theatre and show designer with artists as diverse as Prince and DV8.
Kit Monkman
Kit Monkman
Volume 2: ‘Bodies & Geometry’ — York Mediale

Cohort Team 1

Aaron

Aaron Howell

UK
Aaron Howell works across film, animation and audio-visual installation to explore the intersection of creative technologies and contemporary performance.
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Lydia Image

Lydia Cottrell

UK
Lydia is a dancer and choreographer based between Leeds and York who creates multi-disciplinary performance. She  makes performance, curates, produces, writes and interrogates culture and technology through her work.
Launch
Phillip

Philip Piaget

Denmark
Philip Piaget is an award winning filmmaker, animator and visual artist from Mexico City, Mexico and is currently the CEO and Creative Director of Ouros Animation.
Launch

Cohort Team 2

Humira

Humira Imtiaz

UK
Humira is a Playwright, Director, Facilitator & Creative Technologist; they are the Assistant Producer at ARC Stockton, Co-Facilitator for My Life Productions, Schools Project Co-ordinator for One Tenth Human & member of the Women in Immersive Technologies Europe through their Metaverse Creation Lab 2022. 
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Rozi

Rozi Fuller

UK
Rozi Fuller has built a freelance career applying animation to a variety of contexts and has recently begun exploring projecting onto 3D forms, using AR, staging projections within a space, and using interactive technology to enable audiences to participate directly with the artwork. 
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Davide

Davide Ghiraldini

Denmark
Davide's performances question, explore and evoke magical experiences in culture, art and in the everydayness.
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Project Prototypes

MInd-Body-Map2

Mind-Body-Map

Rozi Fuller / Humira Imtiaz / Davide Ghiraldini
A philosophical journey out of your body
Launch
ALTR01 (1)

ALT+R

Lydia Cottrell / Philip Piaget / Aaron Howell
A digital wellness experience
Launch

Supported By

The project is supported by Arts Council England & The Danish Embassy in London. It is presented in collaboration with Viborg Visuals, The Animation Workshop VIA University College, Viborg Kunsthal, the Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces, Mediale, Guild of Media Arts, York Museums Trust and XR Stories.