Panel talk on the making of Kaboom+ VR project 'Dreamweaving Within'

You know what's better than creating? Creating together! 

During this panel discussion, we will dive into the making of Dreamweaving Within, the co-creation of the Kaboom+ workshop participants. The Kaboom+ workshops were initated to give creatively-inclined participants the possibility of exploring their daring concepts in the emerging field of immersive media. Going against the common assumption that being creative with VR required immense technological knowledge, we kept on curating programmes over the last three years, which employed the most intuitive tools and techniques to enable interdisciplinary groups of makers to translate their ideas into virtual worlds, objects and stories. Each year, again and again, we learnt that the most powerful resource in a workshop like this was always the group itself. Whenever the respective qualities and talents of all people involved were put to use, the magic would happen.

After focusing on the power of VR storytelling and world-building, we now dedicated the Kaboom+ workshop to co-creation in VR and invited 5 individuals to form a creative collective that was presented with the daunting task of creating and executing a shared project in a fully democratic collab. In this panel talk, we'll of course talk about the process of making Dreamweaving Within (the Kaboom+ project presented at the festival),  but also about the dynamics of co-creation, the prototyping processes in VR, and the intersections between dreaming and VR.

Event by Kaboom+ Collective: Carmen Maria, Eva Kröse, Jacqueline Zamora, Jose Hopkins Brocq, Vincent Boon

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2024