PITCH

IMMERSIO is an interactive and immersive experience plunging the participant in a living dream, in a world deriving from reality to abstraction, in a universe that questions the place of the body and its perception in a numeric space.

The participant enters alone in a black 3X3 cube. He is equipped with virtual reality goggles and an audio headset. For fifteen minutes, he experiences a “dive” in a drifting virtual universe.

This mechanism proves the opportunity to question the language and grammar of virtual reality. Immersio suggests paths for exploring this media, leaving behind narration, text, characters to concentrate on the dramaturgy, movement, interactivity, generative and random processes



“This is the most beautiful perception of sound I have ever experienced. The most elegant lure to transition from dream to reality, and to me, a truly unique gift of hidden beauty.”
Elli-Anna Peristeraki (Athens Digital Arts Festival Curator - Greece)

“This experience will be in my memory for a long time! At once dreamlike, mysterious and transcendant, this unique artwork is experienced as a head dive into the unconscious and the unspeakable. An awaken dream that mixes, in a surprisingly harmonious and fluid way, fragments of reality and pure abstractions.”
Félix Lajeunesse (Félix & Paul Studio - Canada)

“I adore the aesthetics, the technological poetry, the everyday life that rubs shoulders with the infinity of dreamt worlds. Colours, speeds, architectures, and the sentiment of living an initiatory path, a symbolic experience. I also loved the impression of taking part to an “experience” led by artists-researchers, guys who live for and through their passion. With undeniable care and attention for their “passengers”. More than an installation, a high-quality artistic work to be discovered immediately.”
Jacques-Yves Le Docte (Centre culturel Bruxelles Nord / Maison de la création director - Belgium)

AGENDA

Festival "Le court en dit long" / Centre Wallonie Bruxelles
Paris / France
From June 03, 2019
to June 04, 2019

Printemps Numérique / KANAL Centre-Pompidou
Brussels / Belgium
From March 23, 2019
to March 24, 2019

Effervescences / RDV Secrets
Clermont-Ferrand / France
October 5, 2018
October 6, 2018

Stereopsia - World Immersion Forum / Bozar
Brussels / Belgium
December 11, 2017
December 12, 2017
December 13, 2017

Brussels Art Factory
Brussels / Belgium
October 5, 2017
October 11, 2017
October 19, 2017
November 2, 2017
November 9, 2017
November 16, 2017
November 23, 2017
November 30, 2017

Garbicz Festival
Poland
August 3, 2017
August 4, 2017
August 5, 2017

Node17 Off
Frankfurt / Germany
June 30, 2017

SAT
Montreal / Canada
May 30, 2017
May 31, 2017
June 1, 2017
June 2, 2017
June 3, 2017

Athens Digital Arts Festival
Athens / Greece
May 18, 2017
May 19, 2017
May 20, 2017
May 21, 2017

Bozar
Brussels / Belgium
February 15, 2017

Wisp Festival
Leipzig / Germany
November 18, 2016
November 19, 2016
November 20, 2016

Signal Off Festival
Prague / Czech Republic
October 13, 2016
October 14, 2016

Arts2 / École supérieure des arts
Mons / Belgium
November 3, 2015

VR Meet-up
Brussels / Belgium
september 4, 2015

Brussels Creative Forum
Brussels / Belgium
August 28, 2015
August 29, 2015

iMAL
Brussels / Belgium
June 26, 2015
June 27, 2015
June 28, 2015

Exposition "Rien que pour vos yeux"
Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose
Lessines / Belgium
March 15, 2015
March 14, 2015

Halles de Schaerbeek
Foire-Attraction
Brussels / Belgium
February 27, 2015
February 28, 2015
March 1st, 2015

La gaîté lyrique - Meeting / vrlab meetup
Paris / France
November 28, 2014

L’Iselp
Brussels / Belgium
April 2 to 5, 2014

Halles de Schaerbeek
Brussels / Belgium
March 28 to 30, 2014

Centre culturel Jacques Franck
Brussels / Belgium
December 18, 2013

Maison de la Création
Brussels / Belgium
December 13, 2013

Centre des arts de la rue
Ath / Belgium
November 13, 2013

Labokube
Brussels / Belgium
November 4 to 9, 2013

Guide : be prepared to dive

Read me before diving...

Would you like to
programme Immersio
for an event?

Since it was created, Immersio has been played in a wide array of venues : multidisciplinary festivals, museums, contemporary art centre, cultural centres, numeric arts centres, art schools, meet ups, trade fairs...

The installation is devoid of texts or words, which makes it userfriendly everywhere.
It reaches a wide audience of all ages, which is merely curious or passionate about VR, and is suitable for children aged from 8+.

The number of participants than we can welcome should be discussed according to the type of event. In some conditions, we can host up to a hundred travellers per day.

We will gladly prepare an estimate upon request. Prices are equivalent to those applicable for a theatre show.

We can set up the installation in every type of venue. However, a wide and calm environment (allowing to install our 3X3 cube) is better suited for a smooth immersion.

Every time that we play Immersio in a new venue, we shoot 360° images to integrate the venue into Immersio’s virtual environment.

We set up our equipment on the day before the event: assembly of the cube, placement of the sensors, calibration and technical tests. It takes roughly an hour to dismantle the equipment after the show.

Come and try Immersio as a programmer. Contact us on immersio.contact@gmail.com
Demos take place in Brussels. It is possible to go to other locations.

presentation sheet

technical sheet


TEASER

Credits

Created by

Yann Deval
Christophe Monchalin
Aurélien Merceron
Boris Wilmot
Thomas Fage
Stéphane Laplatte

Music

Yann Deval

Clarinets

Yann Deval
Aurélien Merceron

Choirs

Thomas Fage

Coproduction

iMAL
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

External contributions

VVVV by VVVV Group
dx11 by Vux
OSVR by Tonfilm - Oculus by Tomeic
ParticleGPU by Dottore
Instance Noodles by everyoneishappy
Kinect Calibration by intolight
FlockingBehavior by Raul
dx11 Pointcloud by tmp
Street Cloud Flow by Callum Prentice,
inspired by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo

Thanks

VVVV Group
Antokhio
Pierre Van Thienen
Balir Ben Amor
Marie-Ghislaine Losseau
Coline Raynaud
Anne D'hond
KAOS Films
Edificio