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About WEIRD REALITY
WEIRD REALITY: Head-Mounted Art && Code is a symposium dedicated to exploring new and independent visions for virtual, augmented and mixed realities. We aim to showcase independent and emerging voices, creative approaches, diverse and oftentimes marginalized perspectives, and imaginative and critical positions on VR/AR/MR that depart from typical tech fantasies and other normative, corporate media. The symposium features artist talks, speed presentations, technical workshops and demonstrations, discussion panels, a participant-driven unconference, and a free-to-the-public “VR Salon” exhibition which is presented in close cooperation with the concurrent 2016 VIA Festival.
WEIRD REALITY is our fourth Art && Code (#artandcode) symposium, a series of events concerned with liberating the cultural and aesthetic potentials of advanced technologies. Half maker’s festival, half academic conference, WEIRD REALITY takes place October 6-9, 2016 on the campus and vicinity of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Check out the previous editions of Art && Code:
Art && Code: Programming Environments for Artists, Young People, and the Rest of Us (March 2009)
Mobile Art && Code: Artistic and Tactical Approaches to Mobile, Networked and Locative Media (November 2009)
Art && Code 3D: DIY 3D Sensing and Visualization (October 2011)
About the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
WEIRD REALITY is a project of Carnegie Mellon’s Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, a laboratory for atypical, anti-disciplinary, and inter-institutional research at the intersections of arts, science, technology and culture. Founded in 1989 within the CMU College of Fine Arts, the STUDIO serves as a flexible center for new modes of arts research, production and presentation.
About the 2016 VIA Festival
WEIRD REALITY is organized in close partnership with the 2016 VIA Festival, Pittsburgh’s premier audiovisual festival and a platform for the intersection of emerging music, new media art, and technology in a wide variety of forms. Founded in 2010, VIA showcases what’s next in music, art, and technology by artists from home and around the world.
