Immersive Experimentations 2nd August 2024
A presentation of works in progress by Jane Frances Dunlop and Brona Martin.
Jane Frances Dunlop and Brona Martin shared new artworks created with the support of the Early Career Academic Pilot Project Fund using the new Shared Hub Immersive Future Technologies (SHIFT) facilities at the University of Greenwich. The presentation was followed by a discussion on immersive art, technologies and processes of experimentation.
Jane Frances Dunlop’s
eclipse [crowds, choruses, composites]
crowds, choruses, composites is an ongoing research project that interrogates cultural and social shifts brought on by two crises of knowledge that have come to define the last decade: the rise of ‘alternative facts’ that undermine and destabilise expertise, and the increasingly complex AI systems for which datasets stand in as knowledge. The project focuses on the literal and metaphorical ways voices (people, data) come together: in crowds of political protest, in the choruses of historical and contemporary performance and in the composites of machine generated deepfakes and voice clones.
select important things [voices]
eclipse [crowds, choruses, composites] and select important things [voices] are part of a program of artistic research that intervenes in the cultural imaginaries that attend to machine learning processes, the news cycles they feed and the knowledge systems they construct.
Brona Martin’s
The Sounds of Erddig
The project will enable the development of an immersive work for the Bathway Theatre that utilises the recordings made of Erddig House a National Trust property with a rich musical heritage. This research is a continuation of Brona’s collaboration with the University of Southampton and their Sound Heritage project which sets out to research and interpretate the music and sound of heritage houses.
This research builds upon Brona’s strong track record in the area of sound and heritage (via Sonic Palimpsest and other commissions) while building internal partnerships and collaborations with and between CAPTIVATE.
The project will be created using the new SHIFT facilities such as the 32 Channel Ambisonic Sound Studio and the Immersive Theatre, Bathway.
Below are some images of Jane Frances Dunlop’s works:
