Emperor
Emperor, produced by Atlas V and Reynard, tells the story of a woman whose father has Aphasie. My involvement in the project was the technical supervision of the motion capture used in the experience.
Notes on Storytelling. What VR reveals about yourself.
The more we let linear story telling and clearly defined storylines behind us and start to embrace non-linear storytelling, the story starts to become more and more about the person that experiences the story than about the characters of the story. The characters of the story become more like a midwife to reveal the truth …
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Eikonauts and the Journey into the digital Realm
There are only two industries that call their customers “users”: illegal drugs and software Edward Tufte Judging from the success of storytelling, exploring new worlds seems to be a constantly exciting endeavour, a task real heroes would perform. Nowadays there is a nostalgic veil around the discovery of the unknown, since our planet has become …
Notes on Storytelling. VR as the medium closest to Literature and Imagination.
We are largely still unaware about how storytelling works in Virtual Reality. I want to look at it from a different perspective and compare VR with literature and imagination. I really have this belief that virtual reality as a medium is closer to literature, imagination and our dreams than it is to film. There is …
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Obskura Magazine, 2019
Obskura was a zine that was initiated by a few students. We used a risograph to print the designs. The texts were a mixture of essays, short-stories and arthouse film reviews. There were only 3 editions and printed in a limited quantitiy of 150. I functioned as the main editor and CD on the project.
Layers of Illustion and Perception
When it comes to reality we are really talking about our perception. I want to dive a little bit deeper at what this means as it is not only relevant for ones own life but many schools of thought, of philosophy and esoteric deal with these or similar insights. It is also relevant in the …
Virtual Reality and making the invisible perceivable
There are many discussions going on concerning technology and its impact on our society, economy and environment. Litte has been said so far about the enormous impact technology and new media have on our mind, on our imagination and on storytelling, and even less so on the impact it can have on the transcendent qualities …
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Art & Science
Art and science are often considered as opposing elements, as if they would contradict each other. The one emotional the other rational. A never ending battle between forces. I think quite the opposite is true. Fundamentally they do the same thing – they question reality. Science the physical world we inhibit and art the socital. …
Black Holes, M.C. Escher and Virtual Reality
When we think about geometry we generelly think about straight lines forming triangles, the angle between those lines and all the objects those yield. Rarely do we question those concepts, it is what we learned in school as geometry. In fact those ideas about straight lines and the objects they form is called euclidean geometry …
Is VR Escapism?
Imagine that an experience takes you in the heart of a tree, takes you in the body of an animal or in the body of a person that is feeling pain and misery and you see with their eyes. When you are suddenly in the middle of the drama how can you call that escapism? …