The Body is Along for the Ride: constructing extended reality stories.
The Digital Cultures Research Centre invites you to join us for a public lecture by Nonny de la Peña facilitated by Professor Mandy Rose.
Watershed, Bristol.
Nonny de la Peña, PhD, will discuss some of the key considerations about the experience of the body in constructing extended reality stories – those that draw on virtual, augmented or mixed reality platforms – including the embodied edit, duality of presence and spatial narratives. Looking back at her early career as a journalist, she will discuss how journalism’s best practices informed her thinking throughout her now decade-long virtual and augmented reality career. She will also discuss work using new technologies including 3D and 4D gaussian splatting for both headset and Web XR deployments. “Drawing on captures made in the wake of the devastating LA Fires, she will ask if the power and considerations of embodiment might break the frame permanently and usher in an era when the impact of representing our world in 3D offers new dimensions of understanding to critical stories.