WIRE by FilmEU has selected two new Horizon Mission Pilots and awarded each with seed funding for research pilot projects.
The two Horizon Mission Pilots will foster the use of artistic research to address the Horizon Mission to “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030.” FilmEU WIRE advocates that artistic research can play a crucial role in addressing ecological challenges in Europe by fostering creativity, raising awareness, promoting dialogue, and inspiring action. ‘Infamous Shipwrecks’ wants to increase the ocean literacy by telling the stories of notorious shipwrecks on Europe’s coastline by creating 3D worlds and using multiple media. ‘Water as Time’ is an immersive transmedia installation that stimulates fluctuations in perception of humanity’s impact on the natural world through a combination of VR, live action footage, and animation. The pilots involve 24 researchers from 5 FilmEU partners, from senior researchers to early career researchers, practitioners, PhD researchers, and research students.
Water as Time
A transmedia installation - NATFA
Abstract
This project is an interactive transmedia installation that stimulates fluctuations in perception of humanity’s impact on the natural world and accentuates the inherent connection between water and time through a combination of VR, live action footage, animation, and real-life intractability, providing an immersive experience to the viewer. Just as water flows and changes its form, time contorts and moves forward to bring about change, jumps backwards to be perceptually relived, or freezes completely into the verisimilitude of a single endless moment. Time is thus a known and effective cinematic instrument to foster thought and exploration, and as water exceptionally lends itself to both visual and conceptual manipulation, it provokes an active process of internal interpretation.
Team
- Elena Trencheva
- Radostina Neykova
- David Novack
- Dirk Hoyer
- Radoslav Kamburov
- Diego Barajas
- Lea Vidakovic
- Yoan Kadiev
- Daniel Krusteva
Infamous Shipwrecks
Lusófona University
Understanding if and how XR can increase ocean literacy among specific audiences and contribute towards the mission of restoring the ocean and waters
Abstract
This project's main goal is to increase the ocean literacy (OL) of target audiences by telling stories of infamous shipwrecks on Europe’s coastline, using multiple media and points of contact. About the connection to the EU Mission Restore our Oceans and Waters, this proposal addresses two issues in a creative/ artistic manner: the past and present impacts of shipwrecks and the present and future impacts of climate change in specific European coastal areas.
Significantly, this project wants to reach out and engage with specific audiences and stakeholders, particularly students and teachers from basic and secondary schools, as well as institutions such as museums and science centres. About the main research question, this project aims to understand if and how VR and AR can increase ocean literacy among specific audiences, comparing with more standard screen media such as linear video?
About the main artistic output, the core of the project will be the production of 3D worlds, the first representing the underwater resting grounds of one infamous shipwreck on Europe’s coastline. Secondly, audiences will also be able to experience a future underwater world - a specific location, preferably an iconic place which may be underwater in the future, based on scientific scenarios of water rise in European coastline. These 3D underwater worlds will be the basis for multiple pieces of content such as a VR application, an AR application, and an immersive installation.
More information: infamousshipwrecks.eu/team
Team
- Célia Quico (Lead researcher)
- Fernando Angelino
- José Gomes Pinto
- Nuno Cintra Torres
- Possidónio Cachapa
- Elena Trencheva
- Radostina Neykova
- Joachim Pietsch
- Robert Griffin
- Thomas Bøgevald Bjørnsten
- Rune Lünell
- Hugo Azevedo
- Radoslav Kamburov
- Pedro Sousa
- João Alves
- Dulmaa Purev-Ochir
- Nare Leone Ter-Gabrielyan
- Kaloyan Nikolov
- Yoan Kadiev
