Immersive experiences in social shared spaces : audio/visual artistic research in European immersion labs

Abstract

The paper discusses how ILUM combines and integrates three research strands that are part of a major, sustained artistic or scientific focus of the partnering academic institutions: 1) The original development of the ILUM as being oriented towards practice-based research in Media Arts: Interdisciplinary Immersive Experiences within Media Arts. 2) The second scenario and field of expertise is established through collaborative work with the Department of Cognitive Science, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, University of Malta, on Interdisciplinary Immersive Experiences within Cognitive Sciences. For the researchers, the key element is that the subjective experience can be challenged using new technologies and IX media that induce perceptual bodily illusions. 3) The third scenario is the application of techniques, tools, and processes of ILUM in Interdisciplinary Immersive Experiences within Social Sciences, such as Heritage Dissemination activities and finally an outlook on envisaged IX productions within migration studies.