Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Leeds School of Arts in partnership with Screen Industries Growth Network presents an XR symposium bought to you by Leeds School of Arts in partnership with the Screen Industries Growth Network.
Digitally connected screens, in our hands & headsets, offer ways to superimpose stories & worlds into our lives.
In this research symposium, we look to case studies of recent innovative participatory production, & to the traditions and contemporary expertise of storytelling and carnival cultures, to inform our wider discussion of effective participation. From VR film production to innovative theatre, and from traditional masquerades to experiments in global collaboration, our case studies and talks explore questions of agency and connectedness.
Audiences expect to see themselves represented on these connected screens and to be empowered by them. With the potential for monolithic cloud models to dominate and gate-keep our connected creative industries and audiences, the space for innovation and enriching possibilities offered by creative, playful, co-participation in media production is more vital and valuable than ever.
Dr. Emily Zobel Marshall's has been a full-time Lecturer at the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University since 2007
Dr. Emily Zobel Marshall’s research is informed by Postcolonial theory and spans a broad range of concerns, including examinations of constructions of identity in particular hybrid and liminal identities), race and racial politics and Caribbean carnival cultures. She is particularly interested in forms of cultural resistance and cross-cultural fertilisation in the face of colonialism. Her work also often focuses on the ways in which hybrid identities, languages and literatures challenge and modify existing social and cultural structures.
Emily is also an expert in the role of trickster figures in the literatures and cultures of Africa and its Diaspora and has published widely in this area.
Dr Dylan Yamada Rice is a Senior Lecturer in Immersive Storytelling in the School of Digital Arts, MMU.
Rice is a researcher and artist and also work part-time as a Senior Research Manager for Dubit, a company specialising in research and develop of digital media for children.
Rice's research sits at the intersection of experimental design and social sciences, focusing on digital storytelling, games and play on a range of platforms such as apps, augmented and virtual reality, as well as new content for television, all with an emphasis on media for children.
Dr Elena Dare
Lisa Stephenson is the Director and Co-founder of the Story Makers Company
Lucy Hammond is the Marketing & Projects Producer at Pilot Theatre
Richard England works for Reflex Arc
