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If you usually follow the work of the showmetech, you’ve probably heard of VR — an acronym for “virtual reality”. However, today we are going to talk about a colleague from VR: the XR, acronym for “extended reality”. the 30th MixBrasil Festival arrives next Thursday (10) in downtown São Paulo in its 30th edition with the event focused on LGBTQIA+ themes through XR technology. Check out more about the schedule! 2u1v71
What is XR? 6x4vl
XR is an encoming and emerging term for all immersive technologies. The ones we already have today are known as Augmented Reality (AIR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR). All immersive technologies extend the reality we experience by combining the virtual and real worlds, or creating a fully immersive experience. Recent polls revealed that more than 60% of respondents believed that the XR would become the benchmark by 2024.
Imagine what it would be like to live and work in our world in 2030. Perhaps, thanks to advances in extended reality (XR), a term used to describe immersive technologies that can merge the physical and virtual worlds, you can buy a new home anywhere in the world. world as if you were actually online. By the end of 2022, the XR market is expected to reach $209 billion, a mark eight times higher than it was four years ago.
About the MixBrasil Festival 4r582i
Taking place between the 10th and 23rd of November, the 30th edition of the MixBrasil Festival will bring for the first time in Latin America extended reality experiences with LGBTQIA+ themes. Taking place in downtown São Paulo, the event is free — except for the sessions of the Itaú Augusta Space, which costs the single value of R$20 in any session — and will address topics such as posthuman parenting, transhumanism, female pleasure, and different gender identities.
There will be several projects on display, including a show of NFTs called “Blockchain crossroads“, which will bring together artists from the LGBTQIA+ community in different areas of the arts, from carnival artists to olfactory artists, through digital sculptors, filmmakers and performers. His works present transition states, bodies becoming others, shipwrecked and distorted landscapes, moving from the natural to the artificial, from the digital to the analog.
In addition to the XR experiences the MixBrasil Festival will also offer during its 11-day program: 119 films from 35 countries and 12 Brazilian states, 6 new theatrical shows, musical shows, literature, performances, lectures and workshops on topics relevant to the LGBTQIA+ community, Show do Gongo led by Marisa Orth , in addition to honoring the multimedia artist Linn da Quebrada with the Icon Mix award.
The entire program of the 30th Mix Brasil Festival of Culture of Diversity can be checked on the website mixbrasil.org.br and also through Facebook: /FestivalMixBrasil, Instagram: @FestivalMixBrasil, Twitter: @fmixbrasil and YouTube: fmixbrasil. The online program debuts from November 14 and can be watched for free on the platforms of the Sesc Digital e Movie Play.
Directed by André Fischer, executive directed by Josi Geller and cinema programming directed by João Federici, the 30th Festival Mix Brasil occupies eight cultural spaces in São Paulo: CineSesc, Espaço Itaú Augusta – Rooms 3 and 4, Centro Cultural São Paulo – Lima Barreto and Paulo Emilio Rooms, Circuito Spcine rooms, MIS – Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo, Sérgio Cardoso Theater and Cultural Center of Diversity. But the public from other Brazilian states will not be left out. From November 14th, the Festival offers a free online program.
A little more about the event
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The focus of the event is precisely the immersive experiences of extended reality. Listed below are all of these experiences with their title, origin, location where it will take place, the theme of the experience, age rating, and a brief description of what to expect. Just take a look:
- “Flâneur Project #Experiment nº1” (Brazil – )
- Location: Mário de Andrade Library
- Parental rating: 16 years
Overview: From perspectives of identity and its various developments, the Flâneur Project #Experiment nº1 consists of a transmedia experience through the streets and spaces of downtown São Paulo, considering multiple experiences and varying degrees of participation. The work will feature interactive and immersive actions, in an itinerant way, carried out each day at a different time, but always starting at the Mário de Andrade Library.
- Hypha (Chile)
- Location: Museum of Image and Sound (MIS)
- Parental rating: 12 years
Overview: Hypha is an immersive virtual reality story that takes viewers on a journey to cleanse the Earth of man-made disasters by becoming a Stephanopus azureus mushroom. From the spore to the mushroom, the can experience the life cycle of a mushroom to understand the importance of the Fungi Kingdom as the Earth's premier bioremediation agent.
- In the mist – No Vapor (Taiwan)
- Location: Museum of Image and Sound (MIS)
- Parental rating: 16 years
Overview: In a dimly lit room full of fog, silhouettes of men, alone, in pairs or in groups, abandon themselves to the exploration of their sexuality. Between dream and awakening, In the Mist plunges into an unexpected experience, where time seems to be suspended and bodies are in a trance. Chou Tung-yen casts a poetic and explicit look at desire, which is configured here around the pleasure of seeing and being seen – actively questioning the spectator's.
- Posthuman Parenting in Hybrid Reality (Netherlands)
- Location: Mário de Andrade Library
- Parental rating: 14 years
Overview: IVF-X is an award-winning, continuously changing transmedia experience that invites couples or singles to digitally 'procreate' in a post-human clinic using Artificial Intelligence. & Visual Procedural Simulation. In the future, what will it mean for humans if reproduction is not so much a biological issue as choice and technology?
Speculating about the future of reproduction, philosopher and artist Victorine van Alphen has developed a Hybrid Reality where you can create and meet your own personalized cyborg baby: a creature existing on the edge of humanity and technology, digitally grown for you based on your choices. . But you'll meet your cyborg only after an intimate, artist-guided retro-futuristic ingestion. The entrance mixes immersive theater, roleplay, experimental film, provocative interfaces and a “digital womb”.
- Lady Sapiens ()
- Location: Mário de Andrade Library and Olido Gallery
- Parental rating: 12 years
Overview: You are LADY SAPIENS, you were born 38.000 years ago. You're experiencing the place of women in the clan, but that's not the end of the story. No, the women weren't cooking while the men were hunting. Director Camille Duvelleroy envisioned a virtual reality experience based on the latest scientific discoveries, evolving in a sumptuous graphic universe designed by UBISOFT. LADY SAPIENS, THE EXPERIENCE offers a journey through time, in the body of a Sapiens woman. Plunged into the heart of an ancient valley, you have an unforgettable encounter with a Paleolithic hunter.
- Lips (Taiwan)
- Location: Museum of Image and Sound (MIS)
- Parental rating: 16 years
Overview: “Lips” is an interactive virtual reality experience that invites the audience to enter a female body to awaken their desire, resulting in a journey of fluidity and surrealism. Virtual Reality is used to create an immersion of privacy, which means materializing our sensory experience through private touches.
- When we Stayed home – Venice ()
- Location: Museum of Image and Sound (MIS)
- Parental rating: 12 years
Overview: In April 2020, the entire world shared a common destiny. Everywhere, citizens were invited to stay at home to face one of the worst epidemics of the century. This series immortalizes this unique moment in history and takes you to the heart of the world's empty cities. In this episode, discover the emptiness of Venice in confinement through the story of one of the city's gondoliers, Alex Hai.
- 1,2,3 Soleil ()
- Location: Museum of Image and Sound (MIS)
- Parental rating: 12 years
Overview: Everyone re playing this game one day... Go through the life of a man for whom this children's game ended up being associated with his best and worst memories...
- Blockchain crossroads
- Location: Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) and Galeria Olido
- Parental rating: 12 years
Overview: Exhibition of NFTs “Encruzilhada Blockchain” — which brings together LGBTQIA+ artists from different practices in the field of the arts: from carnival artists to olfactory artists, ing through digital sculptors, filmmakers and performers. His works present states of transition, bodies becoming others, shipwrecked and distorted landscapes, moving from the natural to the artificial, from the digital to the analog.
Different platforms allow the development of new themes and new content conceived from the technological possibilities that each one offers. On completing 30 years, Mix Brasil innovates with the inclusion of another axis in its programming: the experiences of extended realities (XR). XR is an umbrella term, used to designate this new genre of audiovisual production with immersive technologies that create an extension of our reality, especially virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).
In the MIX.XR topic, which is on the MixBrasil Festival website, there is a description of what to expect from XR experiences
You can check the full schedule of 30th MixBrasil Festival on the event's official website.
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