The ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community inaugurated a monthly series of online lightning talks and activities in order to build community and share ideas. On 26 February 2021 PD Victoria Szabo co-hosted a session with Derick Ostrenko, LSU, on the topic of “Immersion, Interactivity, and Altered Realities.” Ten presenters shared their work, and then the larger group had a follow-up discussion of what they had seen.
We asked:
- How have the affordances of immersive reality technology changed?
- What are the challenges to creating immersive media artwork?
- What is the next horizon for extended reality in art and culture?
This is a promising meeting format for sharing amongst the V/AR-DHI community. Meg Schedel, one of the V/AR-DHI participants, was also able to join us as a presenter. SIGGRAPH is an interesting partners for us, because its provides us a way to continue the discussions around XR as a medium with accomplished members of tech tech community, as well as digital media artists and practitioners.
For more information, and to watch the session video (when it is posted), visit the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community website: https://dac.siggraph.org/sparks-immersion/
