Join us on Tuesday 19th November from 6pm – 8pm for our Immersive Arts Meet Up!
November’s Immersive Arts Meet Up is looking very special. We have two exceptional artists signed up for the evening, both known for using immersive technology as a medium for social change. Cameron Kostopoulos’s award-winning VR experience, Body of Mine allows us to extend our experience of gender in a moving and psychologically groundbreaking way. We’ll also be introducing Jamie Starboisky’s work in progress, Therese & Peta: Keepers of Fire which takes us behind an iconic, era-defining photograph from the AIDs epidemic of the Eighties, revealing a true and yet untold story.
Cameron Kostopoulos is an award-winning director and immersive creator. Their debut experience, Body of Mine, received the Producers Guild of America Innovation Award, the SXSW Special Jury Award, a BAFTA Student Award, Best XR at Games for Change, an International Premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and more.
Cameron will be introducing us to Body of Mine, an award-winning, full-body VR experience that invites you to inhabit the body of another gender and discover stories from transgender individuals. Combining body, face, and eye tracking with personal interviews of transgender individuals, the experimental storytelling experience allows you to hear, discover, and experience stories of gender dysphoria and euphoria. Winner of the Producers Guild Innovation Award, and with accolades from BAFTA, SXSW, and Games for Change, Body of Mine “breaks through a psychological barrier that few pieces of media ever have” (WIRED), taking you on a profound journey of what it means to be a human being.
Producer and Director Jamie Starboisky is on a mission to disseminate marginalised stories: he founded the Queer Media Festival back in 2013, and has been working on multiple projects since, exploring the use and impact of mobile filmmaking, interactive trans media storytelling and virtual reality in bringing the international queer community together, he believes that by using these technologies to share our experiences, we ultimately change the world one story at a time.
Jamie’s project, Therese & Peta: Keepers of Fire started with the iconic photograph by Therese Frare it came to define the AIDs epidemic, and has been seen by over a billion people. You might recognise the image as the unflinching documentary photograph of a young man, emaciated and at the end of his life, in his bed surrounded by grieving family and friends. The artist’s journalistic research uncovered the story behind one important caregiver shown in the image. This is Peta, whose mesmerising life story and previously untold friendship formed the background to the photo and without whom, the image would not have happened.
📆 19 November 2024
⏰ 6-8pm
📍 BOM
We hope to see you there! RSVP to the event here: https://forms.gle/8antXGqaMA9dgtY19
