The Soma Project
The Soma Project explores the concept of ‘somatic agency’ – our experience of and capacity to sense and feel our living and moving bodies, highlighting the perception gap between seeing and feeling through the use of VR technologies. Led by dance artist and researcher Lisa May Thomas, the…
Adam D.J. Laity (Black Cat Films), Jonathan Eve, Lisa May Thomas, Jo Hyde
Made by
Lisa May Thomas
Lisa May Thomas is a contemporary dance artist who has worked extensively with body-technology relations in performance-making practicesWorking with
Tom Mitchell
Tom Mitchell is a computer scientist, researcher and electronic musician lecturing computer music at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
Jay Kerry
Jay Kerry is a trained actor, technician, project manager, performance artist and aerial acrobat.All Seeing Eye
Clarice Hilton
Jo Hyde
The Soma Project explores the concept of ‘somatic agency’ – our experience of and capacity to sense and feel our living and moving bodies, highlighting the perception gap between seeing and feeling through the use of VR technologies.
Led by dance artist and researcher Lisa May Thomas, the project spans; Soma a movement and virtual reality experience; research initiatives at the University of Bristol combing dance-somatic practices with virtual-reality technology; audio-visual and photographic exhibition work, professional dance workshops and training using technology in practice and performance; and public workshops and talks.
Soma is a participatory performance which combines movement and virtual reality - https://soma-project.co.uk/
Soma is an hour-long participatory experience that takes participants on a sensory journey and offers them the opportunity to explore different ways of ‘seeing’ and ‘feeling’ across physical, virtual and imagined realities.
NB. Soma has been developed on from prototype project Figuring (2018) - http://www.figuring-project.com/
