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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The Acquisitions Panel
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.
  • Rachel Briscoe / Fast Familiar
  • 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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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.
  • 1969
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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.
  • 1982
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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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Monoliths
An exploration of landscapes as radical spaces for expression and reflection, presenting the English landscape in VR through the eyes of three northern women.
  • Lucy Hammond
  • 2022
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