04.09 | 14:30

Lovestory is an interactive virtual reality experience. It’s main idea is the transfer of participant’s body into a virtual body and then a simulation of that presence in said body. The main emphasis of the action is a motion-captured intercourse between real people which builds up the experience. The creators identify the idea of acquiring the body and taking over another being with Tulpa, present in Tibetan mysticism, sometimes used as a synonym of “magical vanity”, “apparition” or “thought-shape”. The concept behind the script for the experience is derived from the interest in early film adaptations of SF cinema. They represented VR at the time and the transhumanist idea of feelings being virtually connected between two people alongside body structure studies and a possibility of expressing its motor skills through specific aesthetics. The project is a response to a cur- rent health situation - the limitation of interpersonal contacts caused by the pandemic and, as a result, causing social contacts to shadow into virtual space.

Speakers:

Jakub Wroblewski - An interdisciplinary artist, film director and DOP. Ph.D, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Media Art Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He deals with video, interactive film, audiovisual narrative, film theory, graphic narrative structures, immersive storytelling and art and science projects. He runs a 3D and Virtual Occurrences II – diploma studio at the Academy. A co-founder of Open Lab Narration Systems, lecturer at Speakers Avenue Training Institute. Creator of visual grammar in Jaśmina Wójcik’s film – Symphony of the Ursus Factory (Film Award of the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw and Polish Film Institute). Scholarship holder of the Young Poland Award (National Center for Culture, program of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage), a tutor in the Gaude Polonia (NCK) program, Grand Prix Multimedia Szajna Festival.

Przemysław Danowski – graduate of Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy. For over 10 years a lecturer at the Multimedia Art Creation Studio run jointly by the Academy of Fine Arts and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. He deals with sound in interactive and multimedia form. A sound creator and a composer of music for computer games, theatre performances, film and multimedia. Musician multi-instrumentalist, music producer and DJ. Assistant at the Faculty of Sound Engineering of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Sound design consultant in Visual Narratives Laboratory (vnLab) at Łódź Film School. Creator and curator of permanent VR projection exposition – UMFC VR. Currently, he is working on a doctoral dissertation on the subject of sound design in 3D space.

Andrei Isakov – graduate of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. As a student he conducted research on the status of computer games in contemporary art. He established and headed Animagica student research group, running classes in 3D modelling, rendering and animation using a wide range of tools, e.g. kinect motion capture. He completed the Game Dev School training in Warsaw, gaining computer gaming sector competences, from planning and developing a budget to execution. He is currently assistant and lecturer at the Faculty of Media Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He runs classes in 3D graphics, modelling, animation and virtual reality.