Mixed reality interactive documentary about space-time narrated by astronomer Tony Stark (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics). A real-time hologram of your body is integrated into the observatory room. Using the controllers, you bend space and time to your will, creating black-holes, worm-holes and time portals.

Speakers: Mark Boulos, Javier Bello Ruiz, Robin Mange (IMVERSE, CH)

Moderator: Sandra Gaudenzi

When: Sunday, 15 April 2018, 14h30–16h00

Where: Colombière Grande Salle (Rue de la Colombière 18, Nyon)

www.imverse.ch/elastictime

The Enemy is always invisible. When he becomes visible, he ceases to be the Enemy. For the first time, in augmented-reality, a new documentary gives users the opportunity to meet soldiers from opposite sides of the same conflict. Each fighter offers personal perspectives on war, in their own words, discussing their motivations for fighting and what their future might look like.
http://theenemyishere.org

Chernobyl VR Project is an interactive virtual tour showing the aftermath of the biggest environmental disaster caused by humans. With the help of photogrammetry, laser scanners, drones, 360 spherical movies and photos, The Farm 51's crew recreated parts of the radiated exclusion zone as a real-time application made on Unreal Engine 4. They had to overcome a big number of technical, logistic, and design challenges, but there's still more to be done because the project's expansion assumes making a visualization of the future of this area, as well as it's look from the past, before the catastrophe. 
www.chernobylvrproject.com

www.forcedfromhome.com

http://www.notesonblindness.co.uk/vr/

February 5th, 1916. In a Swiss cabaret, a handful of wild and nationless artists set out to remake art and change the world. February 5th, 2016. Dada madness strikes again.

Dada-Data, by Anita Hugi and David Dufresne (two Grimme Online Awards for Prison Valley and Fort McMoney), is a digital project composed by a storm of interactive Dada events (“Dada Hacktions”) and an online anti-museum, the DADA-Depot. A modern tale, between collages and hyper-text, Twitter and manifestos, Instagram and connected readymades, Dada-Data is a living and viral tribute made of embezzlements, self-destruction and derision rooted in our time, just like Dada was at war against her era. A tribute without dust, a documentary without video, purely web.

An interactive installation designed by Fragment. In (Lausanne) will be open to the public during Visions du Réel 2016 (Nyon, 15-23 April).

Dada-Data is an international co-production led by SRG SSR and Arte, in collaboration with DocMine, Pro Helvetia, and developed by the design studio Akufen (Montréal).

Speakers: Anita Hugi and David Dufresne (creators), Bruno Choinière (Studio Akufen), Sven Wälti (SRG SSR)
Moderator: Sandra Gaudenzi
When: Sunday, 17 April, 2016, 14h30–16h00
Where: Colombière Grande Salle (Rue de la Colombière 18, Nyon)

www.dada-data.net

“A virtual reality experience inspired by real events.”

Trapped in an active war-zone, two parents struggle to distract their young daughter by inventing a fantastical tale. Inspired by real events, this immersive VR experience transports the viewer into the family's makeshift basement shelter. The parents' fairy tale intensifies as bomb-blasts draw closer and closer... One of Sundance’s 2016 New Frontier Program highlights, “Giant” draws on director and co-creator Milica Zec’s personal experiences as a child in war-torn Serbia: “Through virtual reality the viewer can see, hear and feel what it’s like to be at the epicenter of a conflict zone. They can also witness the fear and suffering that millions of innocent families around the globe are going through, at this very moment.”. The evocative film shows how cinematic VR lets us observe ourselves and our instincts, and become more conscious of the way we make choices.

Speakers: Milica Zec and Winslow Turner Porter III (creators)
Moderator: Sandra Gaudenzi
When: Sunday 17 April, 2016, 16h15–17h45
Where: Colombière Grande Salle (Rue de la Colombière 18, Nyon)

giantofficial.com

Progetto Ustica is a serious game that aims at keeping alive the memory of one of the most tragic events in recent Italian history. It is a short free to play exploratory experience created for PC/MAC and Oculus Rift VR. Progetto Ustica recreates the main events of the 50 minutes flight of the ITAVIA DC9 shot down from the sky over the Tyrrhenian Sea at 8:58 PM on June 27, 1980. The exact chain of events was never confirmed. The facts are still highly controversial but what we know with a fair amount of certainty from legal and technical evaluations is that the DC9 was shot down by mistake by a military missile that killed 77 passengers and 4 crew members. Progetto Ustica puts the player inside the DC9 shortly after its take off, from a first person point of view. The player explores its cabin, interacts with objects and people, and finds several objects that unlock additional features: new points of view that show what is happening from the perspective of the military aircrafts and more; audio recordings of that night radio communications; contextual information on the military activity in the Tyrrhenian Sea, new hints on events of that night and on what followed. The player retraces the events of that night during multiple playthroughs, each one contributing to build a different path among several possible points of view.

Speakers: Mauro Salvador and Ivan Venturi (creators)
When: Monday, 18 April, 2016, 16h15–17h45
Where: Nyon, Grande Salle de la Colombière (Rue de la Colombière, 18)

www.facebook.com/progettoustica

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