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Shared Realities

The Shared Realities consortium is launching a living lab to research and develop collective immersive experiences and a physical, sustainable exhibition culture for emerging forms of immersive art. The consortium focuses on exploring and researching collective immersive storytelling, strengthening the ecosystem for co-production and distribution, and engaging audiences through shared experiences. Makers, producers, curators, distributors and researchers are working together to develop this emerging practice further and generate knowledge through an interconnected process. The activities are organised around overlapping tracks – 'creation and prototyping', 'reflection and interpretation', 'documentation and dissemination' – developing applicable knowledge, encouraging sustainable exhibition practices, and raising the international profile of Dutch immersive artists (both artists who are part of the consortium and artists selected through an open call). These tracks build up to the annual International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

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Lead organisation

IDFA

Partners

Hogeschool van Amsterdam POPKRAFT Polymorf Studio Biarritz WeMakeVR ARTIS (Planetarium)ALLLESSS Cassette Stories MIT Open Doc Lab PHI Ado Ato Pictures

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