This conversation will introduce participants to open source resources and and tools for immersive and interactive world building, and critically approach topics such as the limitations of the binary logic of programming languages, node based building, user access, and community support for MR/VR creators.
About the Artists
Luca Lee is a Brooklyn-based transgender immigrant journalist, experimental media maker, and self-taught musician from Chile, with a research-centered and multidisciplinary practice. He works with new media and immersive arts to create participatory and hybrid experiences that explore questions of identity and otherness.
Dominika Ksel is an interdisciplinary artist investigating unseen forces that inform our physical and immaterial realities. Through community collaboration, sonic sculptures, VR and video, they use gameplay and interactivity to map power dynamics, research consciousness, embodied cognition and interspecies communication.
Camila A. Morales is an interdisciplinary artist + designer working at the intersection between art and architecture. Her work focuses on the relationship between the built environment, new media technologies and human sensory stimuli. She creates responsive structures using architectural elements with embedded electronics. Her goal is to create temporal works that engage the public to rethink their experience of space. In doing so, she imagines space as a landscape that integrates human nature with built environments both digital and physical, which creates a symbiotic relationship between the viewer and the space as both respond to each other. She currently works at Maya Lin Studio and teaches at NYU.
Daniel Lichtman’s work in creative coding, game development, performance and video explores how media platforms shape contemporary experiences of trust and solidarity. He is interested in amateur and de-skilled media production, and often works with artist and non-artist collaborators to explore fragile relations of power between performers, viewers and members of communities, both online and off. Exhibitions and screenings include The Bronx Museum, The Queens Museum, BRIC Arts and Media House, The Drawing Center and The ICA (London). Residencies include The Drawing Center, BRIC and the National University of Colombia. Recently organized programs include Accumulations.online at Cornell University/-empyre- soft-skinned space and You Are Good, a video screening program that toured to museums and galleries across the UK. Lichtman earned his MFA at Goldsmiths, London, and is currently Lecturer in New Media Art at Purchase College, SUNY and Baruch College, CUNY.