The re-emergence and recent new accessibility of immersive technologies, particularly virtual reality in all its forms, is leading to question the dynamics of storytelling that these tools enable. Immersed viewers are in turn spectators and/or agents of the narrative, without becoming either performers or actors in the piece. Deeply interactive, but devoid of gameplay in the usual sense, what are the writing and staging methods offered by these new spatialized narratives? The workshop involves working in augmented reality in the public space of Zagreb. Based on the principle of a cadavre-exquis type of spatialized narrative, each participant develops a story fragment contextualized in a given place. Participants have the dual task of making this narrative element operational, and also linking it to other places set in story through augmented reality. The workshop introduces some simple and accessible tools for creating augmented reality.
Public Space & Augmented Reality: Color ExpansionMathieu Pradat (FR)
Workshop time and place:
Wednesday, 25.10.2023., 14:00 - 19:00 h, Museum of Contemporary Art (Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Zagreb)

Mathieu Pradat (FR)
Mathieu Pradat is a director and architect working in the fields of virtual reality and cinema. His practice is rooted in the growing interaction between virtual and real worlds, as territories that carry narratives and emotions. He explores both linear and interactive narrative forms. His projects (Proxima, The Roaming-Wetlands, Le Chien, Twist again à Lourdes) have been selected for numerous festivals, including La Mostra de Venise - Venice Virtual Reality, GIFF (Geneva International Film Festival), B3 (Frankfurt Biennale) and the Locarno Festival –- La Rotonde. Mathieu Pradat teaches at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and in high schools. He is a 2022 Villa Albertine laureate and a member of the Massachussets Institute of Technology's Open Documentary Lab since 2022. In 2010, he founded La prairie productions, an immersive content and film production company.