This Happened #LDF16

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Artists playing with VR

"How are artists using VR? How does their approach to 'making process' and 'co-authorship' compare to tech manufacturers and design agencies?

What are the challenges and how do they overcome them?

Panelists:

Kim-Leigh Pontin (https://twitter.com/KimLeighPontin) on Human Imagination Task Force (http://www.rca.ac.uk/showcase/show-rca/kim-leigh-pontin/)

Pete Short (https://mobile.twitter.com/pfshort) on CTRL from Breaking Fourth (http://www.breakingfourth.com/)

Marcus Wendt (https://twitter.com/marcuswendt?lang=en) from Field (https://www.field.io/)

Sergio Irigoyen (https://twitter.com/s_irigoyen?lang=en) - from Neutral (http://neutral.digital/vr/) + Tutor at

AA School of Architecture (https://twitter.com/AA_School)

Happy we are contributing a #thlon (https://twitter.com/thishappenedlon) session as part of #LDF16 (https://twitter.com/L_D_F), #DigitalDesignWeekend (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23DigitalDesignWeekend&src=typd). A weekend of free events exploring engineering, making and collaboration, coinciding with the London Design Festival at the V&A (https://twitter.com/V_and_A).

#digitaldesignweekend - Themed 'Extreme Engineering'

We will be inside 'The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre (http://www.vam.ac.uk/__data/assets/image/0020/225209/lecture_theatre_custom_290x193_06200413.jpg)' ( Take lifts to level 3, see the Up the stairs )

See full Digital Design Weekend programme:
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/vamshop/wysiwyg/Digital_Design_Weekend_Programme_.pdf

The Schedule:

12:00 Set up

12:30 Audience arrive - VR Demos - 30 min

13:00 Welcome - 5 min

13:05 Presentations - 35 min

• Intro to VR - 5 min
  Sergio Irigoyen (https://twitter.com/s_irigoyen) - Head of VR at Neutral (http://neutral.digital/vr/) + Tutor at AA School of Architecture

• Speaker 1 - 10 min
  Kim-Leigh Pontin (https://twitter.com/KimLeighPontin) on Human Imagination Task Force (http://www.rca.ac.uk/showcase/show-rca/kim-leigh-pontin/)

Speaker 2 - 10 min
Pete Short (https://mobile.twitter.com/pfshort) from http://www.breakingfourth.com on CTRL (http://www.wired.co.uk/article/ctrl-breaking-fourth-virtual-reality-show-london)

Speaker 3 - 10 min
Marcus Wendt (https://mobile.twitter.com/marcuswendt?lang=en-gb) from https://www.field.io

13:40 Panel Discussion - 20 min

14:00 Audience Q&A - 20 min

14:20 End + move to Raphael Gallery, ground floor - 10 min

15:00 Demos in Raphael Gallery - 1 hr

16:00 Clear up