‘DAZZLE: A Re-Assembly of Bodies’ has been announced as the international competition line-up of the 79th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia. A dance for VR with shapeshifting optical forms and a giant screen give audiences layered viewpoints into virtual and physical space, transforming the beautiful venue on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Vecchio between August 30th – September 10th. Read MoreRead More
Oct – Dec 2021
Alexa Pollmann & Bruno Martelli are mentors on York Mediale’s Immersive Assembly programme for artists and technologists to learn, share, network and play.
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28 Nov
The interactive machine learning project that Gibson/Martelli have been working on with the Goldsmiths University project 4i, finally drops in the Epic marketplace. This open-source free plugin for Unreal Engine enables VR Devs and others to implement gesture interfaces in immersive experiences. We are using InteractML in our live-streaming mocap immersive experience DAZZLE. InteractML was funded by an Epic Megagrant and is entirely open source.
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DAZZLE is featured in Quills Fest, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s inaugural immersive digital festival at the intersection of Live Theatre & Extended Reality happening this weekend Nov 19-20
The Dazzle Collective was featured at the Responsible Fashion Series Antwerp as part of the large and European Projects.
The Dazzle Collective, a practice-based research project has gathered over fifty global participants and set them a co-design challenge. The participating universities and organizations are from Bangladesh, Singapore, Rwanda, Germany, and the UK, and individuals from around fifteen nationalities have contributed so far.Read More
Peut-Porter’s Bine Roth has been awarded a scholarship at the Technikmuseum in Berlin.
Peut-Porter lead on the Costuming, Staging Design, Production, Curation of DAZZLE. As part a jewellery design project with the German Museum of Technology Berlin Foundation, Pforzheim University and C. HAFNER (a metal technology company) have been inviting students to the “PF Revisited Berlin” scholarship program since 2010. Building on this great foundation, this is the 10th year anniversary of this scholarship.
4pm (GMT) March 19
DAZZLE’s UKRI-funded R&D project, MotionRiver was presented at the Audience of the Future UK House on March 19, 2021. You can watch the full session here, including several other projects in this category of UKRI funding.
The MotionRiver / DAZZLE section of the discussion begins at 59:00.
The Guardian’s Anna Fielding recently interviewed Bruno Martelli from our team, to speak about the impact of COVID-19 on visual artists, and how DAZZLE has thrived and developed.
Sat 20 March
DAZZLE has been featured on an episode of BBC Click this week that focuses on VR/AR Entertainment at home, with presenter Spencer Kelly dancing among the moiré patterns and heady avatars of the DAZZLE world. Stick around for an interview with the team where we discuss the future of interactive entertainment at home.
Here’s a link to download the second edition of our DAZZLE News, a two-part edition with patterns to create your own Dazzle tuta suit. This is an occasional physical publication.
– DAZZLE_NEWS-ISSUE_2 | Part #1 | The Dazzle Collective
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From 7 to 18 October 2020 the BFI London Film Festival held their first ever edition of LFF:Expanded for XR and Immersive Art, alongside the film programme of over 50 virtual premieres, free online events and cinema screenings across the land.
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From 7 to 18 October the BFI London Film Festival will be the first ever edition to be widely accessible wherever you are in the UK, with over 50 virtual premieres, free online events and cinema screenings across the land.
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‘Epic Games has committed $100 million to support game developers, enterprise professionals, media and entertainment creators, students, educators, and tool developers doing amazing things with Unreal Engine
Here’s a link to download the first edition of our DAZZLE News. This is an occasional physical publication.
HP were kind enough to lend us an HP Reverb HMD and VR backpack PC for testing in the studio.
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Our team are pleased to announce that we have been funded by the UKRI to research and develop MotionRiver: the Universal Mocap Streamer.
DAZZLE project phase 2 funded by Digital Catapult/Creative XR/ACE
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