Alternate Realities Programme

Alternate Realities combines advances in technology with creativity and imagination to find new ways of exploring non-fiction.

On the Morning You Wake (To the End of The World)

Through the voices of people who experienced the 2018 ballistic missile alert in Hawai’i, this VR experience explores the real and imminent threat of nuclear weapons.

Mike Brett, Arnaud Colinart, Steve Jamison, Pierre Zandrowicz
2022
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OnlyBans

A digital game that critically examines the online policing of sex workers and marginalised bodies.

Lena Chen
2021
Alternate Realities Programme

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Out of Body Experience

Ukrainian artist collective Photinus Studio created an online performance where all participants become one malleable body and documented it in video.

Photinus Studio
2022
Alternate Realities Programme

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Ravi and Emma

A world-first webdoc experience that celebrates diversity and inclusiveness through humour and a unique take on love.

Kylie Boltin, Ella Rubeli
2021
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Recharge

An interactive installation where your phone will only charge when your eyes are closed. Charge your phone while charging yourself.

Dries Depoorter
2022
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A Rest Guide for a Tired Nigerian Artist

This selection of printed guides and podcasts asks what happens when we shift attention from the artwork to the people for whom art is their work?

Rahima Gambo, Innocent Ekejuiba
2021
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ROZSYPNE

A VR piece set in east Ukraine in 2014, where war raged - elderly Nina tries to preserve her everyday life in her small village, Rozspyne.

Nienke Huitenga, Lisa Weeda
2019
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Safe Space

A film illustrating the digital and physical resistance of ballroom cultures over the last thirty years showing their plight and resilience.

Mirelle Borra
2021
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Santa Barbara

Inspired by the artist’s mother, who travelled to the US in search of the American Dream, this single-screen work is an exploration of sacrifice and aspiration.

Diana Markosian
2020
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The Sound Voice Project

A unique performance installation exploring powerful stories of voice loss and identity that features immersive, surround-sound and audio-visual settings.

Hannah Conway
2021
Alternate Realities Programme

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The Tell Tale Rooms

Enter The Tell Tale Rooms, a 360 VR experience and installation that leads you on a journey into the fantastical world of artist Eden Kötting.

andrew kotting, Eden Kötting
2022
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A TikTok War

From sheltering in bunkers to travelling across Europe as refugees, TikTok has been appropriated to chronicle and explain the horror of the Ukraine war.

2022
Alternate Realities Programme

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