OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND
An Augmented 360º telepresent video installation
By Professor Paul Sermon, Dr. Charlotte Gould, and Ph.D. Student Jeremiah Ambrose
An immersive 360° video experience of the Mar Menor, incorporating augmented and live realities in obscure and profound guises. The 360º telepresent video installation presented the outcomes of a two-week residency on the 170 km² Mar Menor saltwater lagoon on the southeast coast of Spain in September 2018 by a creative research team of artists and academics based in the United Kingdom.
The team was invited to undertake practice-based research on the changing ecosystem of this unique natural landscape, resulting from damages caused by intensive agriculture, increased tourism, and rising sea levels. The project and installation have been developed by three UK artists and researchers, each bringing specific experience and knowledge of 360° video to undertake the research and create a unique understanding and manifestation of the changing ecosystem of the Mar Menor. This includes Paul Sermon from the School of Art at the University of Brighton, who is currently working on collocated telematic experiences in 360° live video environments in collaboration with Murcia University in Spain; Charlotte Gould also from the School of Art at the University of Brighton, developing immersive 360° animated augmented reality; and Jeremiah Ambrose from the University for the Creative Arts, who is working on gaze controlled navigation through 360° video narratives.
The overarching aim of this project was to create a unique interactive 360° video experience of the Mar Menor that manifested the Anthropocene effects on this natural landscape as augmented surreal and metaphysical interpretations of the artist’s experiences during the residency, as well as looking at current scientific data on the Mar Menor ecosystem. Through environmental, social, economic and cultural observations and encounters the team have created an immersive 360° environment that incorporates both video and audio recordings with augmented imaginary and predicted realities transformed from scientific data in obscure and profound guises. Following the residency, the team collated the gathered material to produce a 360° telematic installation that incorporates live audience interaction within the original 360° video experience of the Mar Menor.
>>To view the 360° video experience, click here<<
THE 360° CATWALK FASHION SHOW PROJECT
In collaboration with the School of CEM & Central Media Services
In a cross-school collaborative effort, the School of Arts, the School of CEM and Central Media Services have joined forces for the realization of a 360° Catwalk Fashion Show.
As the project is still in the course of development, for further information in regards to it, please get in touch with the project leads: Cameron Pain, Head of Central Media Services, and/or Dr. Panagiotis Fotaris, Senior Lecturer in the School of CEM.
TAGS: SOA, Virtual Reality, 360
Giulia Tranquillini • April 17, 2019