Alternate Realities Award

This selection of printed guides and podcasts asks what happens when we shift attention from the artwork to the people for whom art is their work?

A full-motion video game that allows players a glimpse into the life of someone with borderline personality disorder.

This animated VR docu-drama immerses viewers in one of the largest forced migrations in human history: the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.

A playful virtual reality piece whose protagonists are your own arms: first in control, then not, illustrate the commodification of movement.

Britain’s Imperial Airship programme is the topic of this full room immersive installation, revealing the human desire for progress, adventure and the unknown.

This VR project allows you to roam through Australia’s ancient Daintree rainforest as it simulates 100 year of climate change impact.

An interactive audio story told through the customer service line of a deeply dysfunctional toy company.

Follow the footsteps of Kubo, a Korean urban flaneur, through an exquisitely illustrated three dimensional 1930s Seoul.

An exploration of landscapes as radical spaces for expression and reflection, presenting the English landscape in VR through the eyes of three northern women.

Every night we fall asleep. The ‘story of us’ dissolves away. These new musical works explore the idea of self-disintegration.

Through the voices of people who experienced the 2018 ballistic missile alert in Hawai’i, this VR experience explores the real and imminent threat of nuclear weapons.

A digital game that critically examines the online policing of sex workers and marginalised bodies.

Ukrainian artist collective Photinus Studio created an online performance where all participants become one malleable body and documented it in video.

A world-first webdoc experience that celebrates diversity and inclusiveness through humour and a unique take on love.

An interactive installation where your phone will only charge when your eyes are closed. Charge your phone while charging yourself.

A VR piece set in east Ukraine in 2014, where war raged - elderly Nina tries to preserve her everyday life in her small village, Rozspyne.

A film illustrating the digital and physical resistance of ballroom cultures over the last thirty years showing their plight and resilience.

Inspired by the artist’s mother, who travelled to the US in search of the American Dream, this single-screen work is an exploration of sacrifice and aspiration.

Blending documentary interviews, fictional setting and audience decision-making, The Acquisitions Panel is an interactive artwork about the legacies of European colonialism and who gets to choose the stories we tell.

A unique performance installation exploring powerful stories of voice loss and identity that features immersive, surround-sound and audio-visual settings.