Alternate Realities Programme

Alternate Realities combines advances in technology with creativity and imagination to find new ways of exploring non-fiction.

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A Rest Guide for a Tired Nigerian Artist

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?

Rahima Gambo, Innocent Ekejuiba
2021
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A TikTok War

From sheltering in bunkers to travelling across Europe as refugees, TikTok has been appropriated to chronicle and explain the horror of the Ukraine war.

2022
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after HOURS

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

Bahiyya Khan, Claire Meekel
2019
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Alternate Realities Happy Hour

Relax with the Alternate Realities community.

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Alternate Realities Preview Drinks

Join as we open the Alternate Realities exhibition at Site Gallery.

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Alternate Realities Summit

A day-long series of talks, discussions, networking and games. Come and find out what the latest trends are in immersive and interactive storytelling, whether there is such a thing as a non-fiction metaverse, and what co-creation means when it comes to music.

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Industry Programme

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Alternate Realities: Exhibition @ Site Gallery

Alternate Realities main exhibition space, with 15 works.

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Alternate Realities: Exhibition @ Site Studio

Alternate Realities’ dedicated space for rest.

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Alternate Realities: VR Library

Browse and immersive in our virtual reality library.

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AMERICA

This ‘guerrilla’ newsreel documentary portrays reactions to the Vietnam by anti-war teenagers and African American militants, who talk tough and battle the police.

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Black Power Naps

Black Power Naps reclaims laziness and idleness as power as the artists explain in a video talking about their work.

Navild Acosta, Fannie Sosa
2019
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Captured by an Unprecedented Task

A film by the legendary cinema studio KyivNaukFilm, which popularized complex science concepts, and the explanation of what cybernetics is, not just as a “science, but also as a certain position, attitude to the world.

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Child of Empire

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

Sparsh Ahuja, Erfan Saadati
2022
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Co-Creation: Collective Dreams, Co-Created Realities

We are delighted to be joined by Katerina Cizek, Artistic Director, Research Scientist and Co-Founder Co-Creation Studio, who will give a keynote presentation outlining the practices and philosophies of co-creation, according to the studio’s manifesto.

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Common Good #3: Senses of belonging (Pilot)

Enter a temporary society called ‘Senses of Belonging’, in this location-based audio walk.

Nadja van der Weide
2022
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Conversations with Bina48

A quest for friendship with a humanoid turned into a rabbit-hole of questions regarding the future, at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.

Stephanie Dinkins
2018
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David Olusoga: StoryTrails - A Journey Through Time and Space

StoryTrails Executive Producer David Olusoga will launch this project at Sheffield DocFest before it begins a UK wide summer tour, and he will be joined by local StoryTrails creatives to preview the UK’s largest immersive storytelling project to date.

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Disarmed

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

Roel Wouters, Alexandra Barancova, Jae Perris, Luna Maurer
2021
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Escaping Gravity

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

Mike Stubbs, Roland Denning, Roger Illingworth, Dave Lynch, Rob Strachan, Sam Weihl
2021
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Feminist Economics Football: A Co-operative Game for Sheffield

A public football match, with three sides playing on a hexagonal pitch, illustrates intersecting themes in Feminist Economics.

Feminist Exchange Network, Ailie Rutherford, Mandy Roberts, Sapna Agarwal
2022
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Gondwana

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

Ben J Andrews, Emma Roberts
2022
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Goodnight, Sleep Tight (Pilot)

ZU-UK explores the intimate and the epic, the interface between live and digital experiences with this work that exists between physical and virtual worlds.

2022
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KidzWorks

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

2021
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Kubo Walks The City

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

Hayoun KWON
2021
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MATCH - Feminist Economics Football: A Cooperative Game for Sheffield

Audiences are invited to watch this three-sided feminist football match illustrating the intersecting themes in Feminist Economics.

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