Human Connection & The Power of Storytelling
TrueLove - A dark comedy/documentary about personal data and future technology, combining interactive theatre and augmented reality (AR Headsets). It explores the impact that shared data and technology might have on our future encounters.
Human Connection & The Power of Storytelling
Writer, Director & Producer
Fiction & Non Fiction, interactive theatre performances & games, Virtual & Mixed Realiugmented reality projects. Examples: In My Shoes (VR) which is a library of first person documentaries. The Future Project (MR) explores the future of Technology and its effects on politics, the environment, gender and relationships. TrueLove (AR), a dark comedy about personal data. All My Love (interactive theatre, interactive audio), one woman’s experience of pleasure and death, to be launched at her funeral.
Intimacy - A 360-degree experience which explores the power of human connection. Put aside your inhibitions, sit down with another person and look into their eyes. Let these strangers guide you through their impromptu, unconventional and intense moments of intimacy.
Intimacy is a first-person documentary designed for two people to experience three encounters from six very different perspectives. It tells the stories of two strangers, two comrades and two lovers. It explores the importance of intimacy in survival, relationships and sexuality from a first-person perspective.
Fool - It is 2081. You ticked the wrong box. You gave us your data. Didn’t you read the small print? Fool.
Look down. Whose body are you inhabiting? Whose thoughts are you hearing? Who is sitting next to you? You are in this together.
Fool is a dark comedy, an interactive theatre piece which uses VR/AR technology. The story unfolds. The body belongs to a robot. It has access to your data. Your thoughts. What does your future hold?
Inspired by a fascination with human connection & the power of storytelling, the technology that advances this and audience impact. I start with a story, then explore the best platform on which to tell it.
I have written and directed interactive theatre, interactive audio, game, and virtual and augmented reality projects. Examples: In My Shoes (VR) which is a library of first person documentaries. The Future Project (MR) explores the future of Technology and its effects on politics, the environment, gender and relationships. TrueLove (AR), a dark comedy about personal data. All My Love (interactive theatre, interactive audio), one woman’s experience of pleasure and death, to be launched at her funeral.
Virtual Reality & Intimacy
Virtual reality gets real, BBC Digital Planet
Jane Gauntlett, Nonny de la Pena, Zillah Watson, Darren Emerson
Virtual Reality & Intimacy
Women using virtual reality as empathy activism
Technology at the heart of audience care and empathy
An interview with Artshub
Virtual reality theatre puts experience of brain damage centre stage
Freddie McConnell, Guardian
What can virtual reality teach us about life with brain damage?
Thomas McMullan , Alphr
Virtual Empathy: Does VR have the power to make us care more?
Human connection
“Intimacy has some important reminders behind it about human connection, and the ways in which you discover them are some of the most unique and interesting I’ve yet seen in VR… Intimacy gives you a virtual mask to hide under, an identity to assume, and then lets you take it all off and sit and have an honest conversation about what you thought about your other costumed accomplice, and the results will surprise you”
Jamie Feltham, Upload
A podcast about the creative technology
South West Technology Network
In Focus: Communication
“[In My Shoes] has the ability of this to really touch home and change the way physicians think and the way they care for their patients.”
Chris Benecchi, UCB , Practical Neurology
Framing immersion
How VR & AR are used as a communicative tool.
Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, Bristol
‘Empathy Activism’ and bodying difference in postdigital culture
Jane Gauntlett’s In My Shoes and BeAnotherLab’s The Machine to Be Another.
Liam Jarvis RHUL
Feeling someone else’s body
Self deception and the paradox of immersive experiences.
My work is featured in this research study,
Liam Jarvis RHUL
Immersive content for future audiences
In My Shoes is featured in this research study.
Virtual Realities - Immersive Documentaries Encounters
In My Shoes: Dancing with Myself is featured in this research study.
Lead Research Organisation: University of Bristol
Department Name: Computer Science