LAB: Projects

Cripping Up VR

Cripping Up is a 360 VR documentary film that immerses viewers in the daily challenges faced by a wheelchair user—myself. As the audience experiences the world through my eyes, mundane situations take on new significance, revealing the obstacles non-disabled individuals may overlook.

Amy Crighton, Ben Glover & Jade Parkin / Meg Fozzard / United Kingdom

Futuristic Pagan: Exploring The Cosmos

Futuristic Pagan: Exploring The Cosmos uses VR to connect intangible Zimbabwean cultures through fashion, nature and spirituality. The experience packages traditional narratives using immersive technologies to elevate traditional values and archive cultural heritage.

Chipo Mapondera & Sabina Mutsvati / Sabina Mutsvati & Chipo Mapondera / Zimbabwe & United Kingdom

Hermaphrogenesis

Hermaphrogenesis is a sensory experience that examines relationship with our bodies and the possibility of becoming through rearrangement. Using silicone replicas of internal organs the participants create androgynous organisms which populate a virtual ecosystem.

Marcin Gawin / United Kingdom & Poland

COLLATERAL ECHOES VR

COLLATERAL ECHOES is a new VR artwork. It is concerned with the 150+ Black Britons who have died at the hands of the police since records began in 1969.

Through sensorial renderings of archival images, artefacts and oral testimonies from those bereaved this work questions how personal commemoration might be experienced as a collective memorial.

Baff Akoto & Baff Akoto / Luke Moody, Lidz-Ama Appiah & Lidz-Ama Appiah / United Kingdom

Unstable Evidence

You’ve gone viral in a social media video; but it’s not “you”, rather a digital version that looks and sounds just like you making statements you least believe in. As AI and deepfake technologies develop at a startling pace, evidence is becoming destabilised. We must prepare ourselves.

Francesca Panetta, Halsey Burgund & Halsey Burgund / Magnus Bjerg Mortensen, Shehani Fernando & Magnus Bjerg Mortensen / Denmark, United Kingdom & United States

Oceanic Feeling

‘Oceanic Feeling’ is an immersive VR 360 documentary and installation taking viewers on a first-person journey through the four extraordinary metamorphoses of the mysterious European Eel to gain a new perspective on our relationship with the more-than-human world.

Josef Bania & Lion Bischof / Tine Mikkelsen & Tine Mikkelsen / Germany, Denmark & United Kingdom

The Pathogen of War

A medical mystery confronts us with how we are interconnected. An Iraqi physician turned medical anthropologist uncovers how conflict is linked to the evolution and spread of a bacteria that has defeated the world’s superpowers, threatening modern medicine, to ask “if war is a key driver of disease, can we end all wars to save our health?”

Yasmin Fedda & May Abdalla / Daniel Davies & Daniel Davies / Iraq, United Kingdom, United States, Lebanon, Germany & Canada