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From artist experiments and works in progress, to virtual worlds, video and podcast series, it’s all here. Go on, have a play.

Games

  • We Dwell in Possibility

    The latest digital work in our Virtual Factory series is a queer gardening simulation by Robert Yang and Eleanor Davis.
    An illustration by Eleanor Davis showing two nude characters walking to the right of the frame. The character on the left holds a boombox on their shoulder.

  • Your Progress Will Be Saved

    LaTurbo Avedon journeys inside Fortnite Creative for the first work in our Virtual Factory series
    A screenshot taken in Fortnite, showing artist LaTurbo Avedon from behind, looking out at their art installation in Fortnite Creative

  • Songs of the Lost

    Paloma Dawkins' magic-realist game odyssey through a surreal and absurd digital landscape.
    A screenshot by Paloma Dawkins, showing a wolf character in Songs Of The Lost sitting on the edge of a dock at night.

  • Lost Memories Dot Net

    MIF’s first ever game commission, courtesy of one of the most innovative and individual video game designers working today - Nina Freeman.
    A screenshot from Lost Memories Dot Net, showing a fictional personal website from the early 2000s. The browser window has a pink and peach colour scheme and the website contains a paragraph of welcome text and selfie photographs.

Art

Postcards From Now

Postcards from Now presents five distinct perspectives on the Global Pandemic from leading international artists of every stripe – choreographers, musicians, visual artists, theatre-makers, animators and more. Commissioned and created at the height of the lockdown, these films explore everything from community to communication, patriarchy and power. And in very different ways, they consider the question that we’ve all been asking ourselves and others: what happens next?

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Breathless Puppets [Akram Khan & Naaman Azhari]

00:16:39

Download & Run Zoom [Lucinda Childs & LA(HORDE)]

00:17:28

Love Campus ABCD 2019-2021 [Ibrahim Mahama]

00:17:39

Eve(s) [Angelique Kidjo]

00:14:34

Watch with Audio Description
An illustration of two men, drawn in white outlines against a black background

Breathless Puppets [Akram Khan & Naaman Azhari]

Interactive

  • To the Moon

    In this interactive essay, Laurie Anderson shares how she drew inspiration from constellations to create a new work in VR for MIF19, To the Moon.
    A black and white, computer generated 3D image showing a rose stem in front of the moon, against a backdrop of a galaxy

  • Big Ben Lying Down With Political Books

    Explore Argentinian art pioneer Marta Minujín’s participatory artwork alongside comprehensive archives of her work.
    A screenshot showing a 3D model of Marta Minujín's Big Ben installation against a dark blue background. The sculpture of Big Ben is lying on it's side, and is constructed from scaffolding and clad with abstract, multi-coloured shapes. An entrance ramp on the left of the frame leads directly inside the sculpture.

Experiments

Immersive Tech In Performance

In 2019, we began a major piece of research and development exploring how audiences of the future will experience live performance. Fifteen specialist organisations, including MIF brought together their expertise in theatre and performance, the music industry, video production, gaming and the research sector to explore what it means to perform live using technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.

To celebrate the completion of this research many of the findings have been published at Findings In The Future, a collection of panel discussions and technical documents that share insights into the making of DYSTOPIA987, Dream and more.

Findings In The Future →

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Adapting Story, Character & Performance for XR

00:58:10

Performance, Puppetry and XR Stages

01:05:37

Cross Sector R&D

00:44:10

Physical and Virtual Counterparts: Blending Real and Virtual Worlds

00:52:49

Podcasts

MIF Originals

Polyglot Radio [feat. Adam Thirlwell]

00:35:36

Adania Shibli and Adam Thirlwell on stage at the MIF19 Press Launch, introducing their production Studio Creole

Chasing Phillip Glass [feat. Phelim McDermott]

00:33:51

A photograph from Tao of Glass, showing Phelim McDermott sat at a miniature grand piano while two puppeteers construct an oversized wig for him using large pieces of sheet music.

The School Of Integration [feat. Tania Bruguera]

00:26:39

A photograph of a room at Manchester Art Gallery which has been converted into a temporary classroom, with bright green walls on the left and right of the frame. A class of adults are listening intently as the tutor, with her back to us, leads a cookery class.

A Podcast For All Animals [feat. Sibylle Peters & Lois Keidan]

00:35:02

An illustration showing a group of animals in profile - a pigeon, hedgehog, rabbit, human child, tortoise, dog, cow, mouse and a squirrel.

Alphabus [feat. Young Identity]

00:18:14

A photograph of a dancer stretching their right arm out of the top of the frame

Virtual Tours

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Tour of Captioning The City by Christine Sun Kim

00:02:37

A photograph of a building with a large text installation applied with white adhesive vinyl. The text reads "[THE SOUND OF BSL ASKING WHY THERE ISN'T ONE UNIVERSAL SPOKEN LANGUAGE".

Tour of Poet Slash Artist with curators Lemn Sissay and Hans Ulrich Obrist

00:11:40

A photograph of a man walking past 4 posters showing artwork from Poet Slash Artist while talking on the phone.

Tour of Your Progress Will Be Saved with artist LaTurbo Avedon

00:22:23

A screenshot of LaTurbo Avedon in Fortnite Creative - they are shot from the left side, and their face is lit by the blue light of the phone they are looking at.

Series

Talks

Laurie Anderson

00:58:58

Forensic Architecture

01:07:55

All Of This Unreal Time

00:46:30

Marta Minujín

00:47:47

In Partnership With Nowness

Private View: Christine Sun Kim

00:03:39

Icaria

00:02:54

A photograph of a dancer on their knees, toes curled and arms outstretched. They can only be seen in silhouette as a bright spotlight provides a strong backlight.