Blending tangible experience and impossible stories to unearth tiny truths. How can we use immersive worlds to reimagine the world and our place in it ? In this talk Kirsty will discuss the power of physical experiences in virtual spaces to shape perception. She will focus the talk on Anagram’s VR experience Goliath : Playing with Reality (2021), which brings together the sensory power of immersive theatre with recently available technology to playfully invite audiences into alternative worlds and a unique understanding of our own minds.

Kirsty is a multidisciplinary producer and strategic leader with a proven track record in securing international commissions and partnerships, leading organisational change and producing award-winning works of high quality and artistic ambition. She is Executive Producer for Anagram, an award-winning creative studio specialising in interactive storytelling and immersive experience design.

Previously, Kirsty worked as Business Director for the internationally renowned artist group Blast Theory for eight years. In this post, she produced artworks across multiple immersive forms including Karen (2015), a digital artwork exploring data profiling ; politically-charged immersive theatre pieces such as Operation Black Antler (2016) ; large scale international collaborations such as 2097 : We Made Ourselves Over (2017) and live interactive feature films including Bloodyminded (2018).

Kirsty also worked with Documentary Campus, 104 Films and Sheffield Doc/Fest.

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