Festival Program
November 4
4:00pm PT / 7:00pm ET
IRL & URL Jam Session
Access via: In-Person (NYU Tandon @The Yard), Quills Fest VR WorldNovember 5
9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET
Virtual Studio Visit: Nehal El-Hadi & Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde
Access via: Livestream
10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET
Virtual Studio Visit: Conversation: Josh Nelson, Mary Chieffo and Veronica Flint
Access via: Livestream
11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET
Virtual Studio Visit: Anakwad and Ordinary Gestures Artists on Choreography & MoCap
Access via: Livestream
12:00pm PT / 3:00pm ET
Virtual Studio Visit: Episodic Transmedia Storytelling in The Cymbeline Project
Access via: Livestream
1:30pm PT / 4:30pm ET
Volumetric Demo and Talk with Illya Szilak & Todd Bryant
Access via: In-Person (NYU Tandon @The Yard)
2:30pm PT / 5:30pm ET
Playtest: Herstory in the House (Immersive Audio Experience)
Access via: In-Person (The Merchant's House)
3:00pm PT / 6:00pm ET
Hands-On Workshop: Intro to XR for Theatremakers with Michaela Holland
Access via: In-Person (NYU Tandon @The Yard)
5:00pm PT / 8:00pm ET
NFT Party + Toast by Artistic Director Nataki Garrett
Access via: In-Person (NYU Tandon @The Yard)Line Up
- VR / 360 Video
Anakwad is a shapeshifter bear ritual from the indigiqueer perspective. Bear medicine is a powerful intentional energy of transformation as part of the human experience and encourages healing through reconnecting to the earth and one’s own nature.
- Ty Defoe
- Dov Heichemer
- alpha_rats
- VR / 360 Video
Nao Bustamante prototypes a new vision for feminist autonomy in her project BLOOM, an ongoing cross-disciplinary investigation centered around the design of the vaginal speculum and its use in the history of the pelvic examination.
- Nao Bustamante
- VR / 360 Video
In China, internet gaming is described as “electronic heroin” and many parents of suspected internet addicts send them to re-education camps. One of them was the director of this VR experience that places you at the center of his haunting experiences.
- Mengtai Zhang
- Lemon Guo
- VR / 360 Video
A Sudanese girl’s experience of a haboob, or sandstorm, in Khartoum leaves a profound and lingering memory.
- Nehal El-Hadi
- Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde
- VR / 360 Video
LOOM is a VR opera that ruminates on the emotional and political charge of polyphony and ethnic identities. The project grew out of the artists’ time recording soundscapes, filming, and studying with elder song masters in the villages of the Kam people, an ethnic minority group in the southwest of China with a rich orally transmitted polyphonic singing tradition that has undergone drastic displacement and reconstruction in recent decades.
- Lemon Guo
- Mengtai Zhang
- Ethan Edwards
- VR / 360 Video
On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World) is a virtual reality documentary that captures the voices of the people who experienced the real and imminent threat of nuclear weapons. “On the Morning You Wake” immerses the audience in the first-hand experience of citizens in Hawai’i to make clear the fundamental injustice of a world where nuclear weapons exist.
- Atlas V
- Archer’s Mark
- Games for Change
- VR / 360 Video
Ordinary Gesture is a Virtual Reality Theatrical experience that intersects theatre, meditation, and movement.
- Raja Feather Kelly
- Illya Szilak
- Cyril Tsiboulski
- Christoph Mateka
- VR / 360 Video
Reading a diary left by the estranged son, a Catholic mother (Hadley Boyd) finds a way to transcend herself and her grief by imagining him alive and in love.
- Illya Szilak
- Cyril Tsiboulski
- Brandon Powers