Calling all interactive and digital art enthusiasts! V-Unframed 2024: Your Journey Between Art and Virtual Reality returns to Vancouver on November 16 and 17, showcasing immersive and interactive artworks by local talents and international artists.
Since 2019, Alliance Française Vancouver has organized V-Unframed with the goal of making digital arts more accessible to everyone.
Explore the featured artworks from B.C. below:
Highlights: Maamawi – Together Through the Fire
Maamawi: Together Through The Fire is an immersive XR dance project that fuses Anishinaabe cultural narratives with digital storytelling. It explores themes of resilience, connection, and transformation through movement and virtual landscapes.
The project invites audiences into a rich experience, merging tradition with innovation, where the power of dance and ancestral stories guides them on a journey of shared healing and unity.
Discover the Unseen World of Metro Vancouver
Step into a groundbreaking VR adventure with Metro Vancouver and the Centre for Digital Media. Debuted at the 2024 Pacific National Exhibition, this one-of-a-kind experience transports audience behind the scenes of the critical infrastructure that powers the Metro Vancouver region.
Journey inside dams, explore tunnel networks, or soar to the mountaintops that provide our region’s fresh drinking water—all from a stunning 360-degree perspective. Using interactive navigation, audience will uncover the hidden marvels that support life in Metro Vancouver, connecting with the natural beauty and innovative technology.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience places few have seen firsthand. Dive in and discover the invisible world of Metro Vancouver’s infrastructure like never before!
Imagination and Joy: XR Painted Art
This artwork is focused on VR-painted artwork. Whether it’s the joy of watching smiling crabs, the grandeur of rugged mountains, the fusion of international cuisines, or a rendition of a fantasy world like “The Lord of the Rings”, these hand-painted experiences highlight and celebrate the spirit of joy, awe, and wonder.
The project evokes a sense of imagination through both video and VR formats, celebrating humanity and inspiring audiences to connect with their own creativity.
Vox.Infold II: Mojuba
Journey into the realm between worlds and hear the songs of the ancestors calling audience back to our eternal home. Mojuba is a new take on a traditional Yoruban hymn, from Ruby Singh’s Vox.
Infold, that guides those departing from the earthly plane across the cosmic river to join the council of elders in the afterlife. In this mixed reality experience, the audience is invited to be transported by the light and interact with the cosmos as you leave this earthly plane behind.
Get tickets on the official website and view the full schedule.
