Play and Immersion as Method
When: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM AEDT
Speakers: Dr. Andrew Yip
Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom
We live in a post-digital world in which physical and social spaces are hybrid spaces and born digital artefacts themselves have become significant cultural objects with complex lives and afterlives. The affordances of the post-digital world give us new ways to explore our past and present, but require new frameworks for understanding how we create and perceive hybrid spaces.
This seminar will discuss the value of immersive play and exploration within virtual worlds as they apply to GLAM exhibition contexts as well as to researchers as a new form of practice-led methodology. It will show how subtle, embodied interaction methods can be designed to create an affective sympathy between audiences and historical moments, and argue that game-based play can be leveraged by researchers to test hypotheses, explore materialities and reach new audiences.
Andrew will illustrate the seminar with examples from his museum projects as well as work in the field.
Speaker: Dr Andrew Yip – Senior Lecturer, Immersive Design, University of New South Wales
Andrew Yip is a new media artist, immersive systems designer and art historian whose work explores applications for immersive visualisation and simulation to GLAM practice. Andrew builds immersive worlds in which he reconstructs heritage sites and memories. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Powerhouse Museum, Heide Museum of Modern Art, South Australian Maritime Museum, and others.