Hello! My name is Jesse Ayala. I am currently exploring a few ideas for my OLP project. I am still formulating the subject of my OLP project, but I do know that it will touch on three key themes: 1) Data, 2) Values, and 3) Identity. The working mission statement is:
My experience will uses data sets to create situations wherein audience members express their values. In doing so the audience learns about their identity through the exploration of the topic.
This past week I attended the Games/XR for Change Summit in New York City. After three days of fruitful conversations my development process shifted in key ways I want to share:
To me the phrase “data set” sounds cold and person-less, and it is my discomfort with that phrase that makes me want to use it more. As Cyril Szymczak the VR/AR Lead at UNICEF Innovation (Video Start Time: 00:28:00) states in his talk, data is numbers but those numbers have human faces, and often times the data on the ground is collected from those people living in the experience who we should consider experts. He argues that we need to start seeing crisis data as a presentation of possible solutions and opportunities, not problems.
Resham Sindua a Creative Director at AQKA (Video Start Time: 00:09:00) discussed VR experiences that challenge your values. She examines how Carne Y Arena’s location based setup brings data points in the form of physical artefacts such as shoes and parts of the border wall into the piece to provoke emotional reactions. By creating an experience that moves you, but is hard to determine if it was “virtual” or “real” is a signal of good VR. In dealing with the immigration issue, the piece challenges the audience to see how their expression of values in the piece reflects elements of their identity.
And lastly I wanted to include Kamal Sinclair’s (Video Start Time: 00:02:04) rapid fire talk on how Sundance New Frontiers has celebrates the evolution of imagination, manifestation, and innovation within XR storytelling. As a creator the talk was a great survey of experiences that push boundaries in the form while still delivering stories.
Hello! My name is Jesse Ayala. I am currently exploring a few ideas for my OLP project. I am still formulating the subject of my OLP project, but I do know that it will touch on three key themes: 1) Data, 2) Values, and 3) Identity. The working mission statement is:
My experience will uses data sets to create situations wherein audience members express their values. In doing so the audience learns about their identity through the exploration of the topic.
This past week I attended the Games/XR for Change Summit in New York City. After three days of fruitful conversations my development process shifted in key ways I want to share:
To me the phrase “data set” sounds cold and person-less, and it is my discomfort with that phrase that makes me want to use it more. As Cyril Szymczak the VR/AR Lead at UNICEF Innovation (Video Start Time: 00:28:00) states in his talk, data is numbers but those numbers have human faces, and often times the data on the ground is collected from those people living in the experience who we should consider experts. He argues that we need to start seeing crisis data as a presentation of possible solutions and opportunities, not problems.
Resham Sindua a Creative Director at AQKA (Video Start Time: 00:09:00) discussed VR experiences that challenge your values. She examines how Carne Y Arena’s location based setup brings data points in the form of physical artefacts such as shoes and parts of the border wall into the piece to provoke emotional reactions. By creating an experience that moves you, but is hard to determine if it was “virtual” or “real” is a signal of good VR. In dealing with the immigration issue, the piece challenges the audience to see how their expression of values in the piece reflects elements of their identity.
And lastly I wanted to include Kamal Sinclair’s (Video Start Time: 00:02:04) rapid fire talk on how Sundance New Frontiers has celebrates the evolution of imagination, manifestation, and innovation within XR storytelling. As a creator the talk was a great survey of experiences that push boundaries in the form while still delivering stories.
