All posts tagged: immersive

The Most Immersive Settings in Fantasy Novels

The Most Immersive Settings in Fantasy Novels

Published by Jenni Sidey

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Hello, friends! This has to be one of the easiest topics I’ve written about, because it feels like almost all the fantasy novels I have read have been immersive. And most of them were worlds I would gladly visit! That’s what makes fantasy novels such a great choice when you need to escape from reality. But since there are so many, I didn’t want to mention the ones that are always named when fantasy books are recommended. I loooooove V.E. Schwab and Susanna Clarke, and highly recommend them, but everyone knows them. Same with Golden Compass, The Night Circus, Game of Thrones, Wheel of Time, Katabasis, The Fifth Kingdom, and Lord of the Rings. (Fun fact: You can sing those titles to the first lines of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel.) No, this time I am going to mention a few amazing fantasy titles that I haven’t gone on and on about lately, to give …

David Bowie Immersive Experience Comes to London in April

David Bowie Immersive Experience Comes to London in April

Published by José Betancourt

The UK can’t seem to get enough of David Bowie. “David Bowie Is,” an exhibition about the late pop icon’s life, music, videos, and art, was organized by the V&A in London, where it opened in 2013 and proceeded to tour the world for five years. The V&A also recently opened the David Bowie Centre, a permanent installation of objects drawn from the musician’s 90,000-item archives, housed in the museum’s new storage facility in East London. Now comes “David Bowie: You’re Not Alone,” will open on April 22 at Lightroom, a venue for immersive exhibitions near London’s Kings Cross Station. Related Articles “You’re Not Alone” is organized by Mark Grimmer, the creative director of “David Bowie Is.” The immersive experience will feature performance footage, interviews, film clips, drawings, and other visual materials projected onto Lightroom’s nearly 40-foot-tall walls and floor. Grimmer also produced Lightroom’s inaugural exhibition in 2023, “David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away),” featuring projections of the English artist’s photography, collages, iPad drawings, and paintings. One of the most anticipated …

Sci-Fi Doc ‘Hungry’ Is Immersive Film on Extinction (Exclusive Clip)

Sci-Fi Doc ‘Hungry’ Is Immersive Film on Extinction (Exclusive Clip)

Published by Daniella Wilson

If you have just been waiting to see a sci-fi documentary, Hungry is for you. If you care about the future of the planet and mankind, again, Hungry is for you. If neither applies to you, but the idea of a sci-fi doc created by a mysterious Being sounds intriguing, check out an exclusive clip from Hungry that THR can exclusively debut. The film by Susanne Brandstaetter (This Land Is My Land) world premieres today Monday evening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The doc, set in a world without humans at an unspecified time, sees a Being arriving to find out “what we lost – and what we failed to see,” highlights a synopsis of the film. “Or did we?” In the process, this strange Being creates Hungry, which mixes audio interviews with scientists and activists and evocative imagery.   Among the topics explored in the doc, which screens in the Harbour lineup of the 55th edition of IFFR, are questionable food, environmental, business, and political trends. “I wanted to create a really immersive [cinematic] experience,” Brandstaetter told THR in …

Immersive Sun installation lights up Bristol swimming pool

Immersive Sun installation lights up Bristol swimming pool

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter An immersive art installation, Helios, has brought a touch of the sun to Bristol’s Jubilee Swimming Pool, offering a unique winter experience. Created by acclaimed artist Luke Jerram, the five-metre diameter sculpture, weighing approximately 50 kilogrammes, is a stunning representation of our star. It was meticulously crafted from over 400,000 high-resolution photographs of the Sun’s surface and Nasa observational data. Named after the ancient Greek mythological god personifying the Sun, Helios will be suspended metres above the pool for three weeks, casting its radiant glow and reflections across the water. open image in gallery People dive into the water beneath ‘Helios’ (Ben Birchall/PA Wire) Jerram, known for accessible public art, expressed his enthusiasm: “I like creating artwork that brings people together and there’s something nice about using a community space like this that’s accessible to everybody. For me that’s really important.” …

David Bowie superfans can enjoy new ‘immersive experience’ at legendary singer’s childhood home

David Bowie superfans can enjoy new ‘immersive experience’ at legendary singer’s childhood home

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This The childhood home of David Bowie, where he famously wrote Space Oddity, is set to open to the public as an “immersive experience”. Located at 4 Plaistow Grove in Bromley, south-east London, the property was home to Bowie from age eight to 20. The Heritage Of London Trust has acquired the residence, planning to host creative workshops alongside public access. The house will be meticulously restored to its early 1960s appearance. A never-before-seen archive, aided by Geoffrey Marsh, co-curator of the V&A’s David Bowie Is exhibition, will guide the recreation of its interior as it was during Bowie’s formative years. open image in gallery A young David Bowie outside his house as a child (David Bowie Estate/PA Wire) He said: “It was in this small house, particularly in his tiny bedroom, that Bowie evolved from an ordinary suburban schoolboy to the beginnings of …

9 immersive experiences in Las Vegas you should book ASAP

9 immersive experiences in Las Vegas you should book ASAP

Published by Sam Flores

A Meow Wolf exhibition is designed as a dream space, a walk-through floor-to-ceiling collection of psychedelic art with a sci-fi bent and an anything-goes, punk-rock spirit. Omega Mart, the Santa Fe, N.M., firm’s Las Vegas outpost, also reflects the company’s absurdist-meets-whimsical sense of humor. Apples that melodically squeal when squeezed? One can find those in Omega Mart, as well as boxes of Corn of Plenty, a nonedible “forever cereal” made of plastic bits. We enter via a mock grocery store, one with not-so-hidden portals into the large-scale art exhibitions beyond. In the market, one can find mini takes on classical sculptures that appear to be constructed out of meat as well as walls of milk and orange juice that look as if they are disintegrating before us. And that says nothing of the host of sarcastic fake products (see the Plausible Deniability laundry detergent), many of which we can purchase. The Meow Wolf design philosophy is ultimately one that’s based on active participation by the guest, a shift from less assertive forms of entertainment of …