A presentation of the epic results of the Kaboom+ world-building VR Metaverse workshop.

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Project presentation of the Kaboom+ world-building VR Metaverse workshop

On Monday 27 March, we invite you to join us for the presentation of the projects developed by an interdisciplinary group of artists, and scholars who participated in the unique hands-on Kaboom+ world-building workshop which spanned across three months between September and December 2022.

Have you ever dreamt about calling an entire world into existence? To conjure up plants, creatures, infrastructures and ecosystems in a god-like gesture with your own bare hands? With the emergence of Virtual Reality and metaverse environments, this desire is no longer constrained to imagination alone. With four organisations that heavily invest in the speculative power of stories - Kaboom Animation Festival, Imagine Film Festival, WeMakeVR (Avinash Changa), M31 (Robin Coops) - we put together a VR world-building workshop and invited a group consisting of visual artists, filmmakers, art designers, sound artists and anthropologists to translate their interests and ideas into designs in a virtual world, which they brought into existence in VR.

Participants: Stanislaw Liguziński, Avinash Changa, Robin Coops, Martina Raponi, Mark Westmoreland, Matthijs Vuijk, Michela Nicchiotti, Jan-Dirk Bouw, Gian Nguyen, Robin Krijgsman.

This panel is invitation only.

Participants of the VR Day are invited to join the Immersive drink in the Noda Restaurant in the Library Neude at 20.00.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2023