In this lunchtime talk, artist and researcher Dr. Harry Wilson will introduce and reflect on three projects at the intersection of immersive technologies and performance practice. 

The projects all share a series of concerns around the ways that performances made with immersive technologies can facilitate intimate encounters with audience/participants. With a focus on physical and virtual space, imagination and memory, Harry will discuss a VR performance for 8 people based on John Berger’s book and our faces, my heart, brief as photos, developed during a residency at the National Theatre of Scotland in 2019; Placing Spaces (2023) a geo-located augmented reality installation of his 7-year-old daughter’s favourite places in Dundee; and a forthcoming research project on the ‘expanded dramaturgies’ of virtual reality performance.

About Harry Wilson

Dr. Harry Robert Wilson (he/him) is an artist and researcher based in Bristol. He has a practice-as-research PhD in intermedial performance practice co-supervised across the University of Glasgow and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee. He was Digital Thinker in Residence at National Theatre of Scotland (2018-19) and a Research Associate on the AHRC funded Walking Publics/Walking Arts project at the University of Glasgow (2021-22). Harry is currently Lecturer in Digital Theatre and Performance-Making in the Theatre department at the University of Bristol and co-programme director of the MA Immersive Arts.

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Join us online on YouTube Live, or in the building on Friday 26th January 2024 at 1pm for the talk and to take part in the Q and A discussion afterwards. 

The Pervasive Media Studio is a partnership between the Watershed, University of the West of England and University of Bristol. The lunchtime talks are partly supported by MyWorld, a project led by the University of Bristol to support creative industries in the region. Watershed is supported by Arts Council England.

Address:
Watershed, 1 Canon's Rd, Bristol BS1 5TX

Directions:
The Lunchtime talks take place in the Pervasive Media Studio Event Space. To access the Studio, please go to the Main Watershed Box Office entrance and go upstairs to the Café Bar. Walk across the cafe bar, turn right and walk towards the double doors. Go through into the corridor and walk all the way down until you reach the Studio. A member of staff will sign you in, and check your ticket, if you have booked.

The Studio is wheelchair accessible, and the events space has a hearing loop. The last talk of every month is BSL interpreted. 

For more information on accessing the studio take a look here.

*Please note this is a hybrid event and will be live streamed so please be aware you will be in the live broadcast and recording when watching in the Studio.