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Facing reality
Versions is an annual conference on creative practice and virtual, augmented, and alternate realities, co-presented by the New Museum's incubator, NEW INC, and digital media company Kill Screen.
At Versions 2016, media theorist Janet Murray said it best: You can predict the direction of change, but you can't predict its rate. Now that the hype around virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality is starting to settle, we'll turn our attention to what's working, what isn't, and the true opportunities these nascent technologies present.
Versions 2017 is Facing Reality by taking a frank look at the current pitfalls, design gaps, and technological limitations of these emerging tools, as well as how artists and technologists are persistently working to advance them in service of a dramatically new cultural form.
This year's Versions will consider the challenges to VR's wide-scale adoption while exploring pressing questions in its current state and future development: What experiences will these technologies offer? What new visual and sensorial languages will emerge? How will they affect our notion of what is real? How will we wield these new capabilities, and to what ends? As usual, we'll apply our cross-disciplinary, cross-generational approach to face reality as we look forward to the next frontiers.
Lunch, coffee & water will be provided for attendees
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