Josh Kopecek will give a guest talk to the Mixed Reality Lab on Friday 3rd June.
Towards an interactive world - taking locative experiences to the next level
The possibilities for location-based experiences are already multitudinous, and as technologies grow and mature, realising these becomes easier. However, there’s still a gap between the tools available, the theory, and the practice of locative experiences. Technologies like 3D audio, ambisonics, augmented reality, indoor positioning systems, and IoT have not yet been brought together to create a canvas for the artist to create cross-medium immersive experiences.
Josh is director of Echoes, a platform that enables people to make beautiful location-based experiences. Through the web app you can make virtual city tours, audio guides for museums and galleries, interactive audio soundscapes, locative games and much more, which can then be published easily to the mobile apps.
Josh will talk about the future of interactive media and locative experiences, current and future technologies, and the possibilities for expansion of realms of interaction with the built environment and other types of immersive experience. He will propose a framework for developing a forum for Locative Experiences, bringing together practitioners, researchers, theorists and technologists..
About Josh Kopecek
Josh is director of Echoes, a way for people to create beautiful location-based experiences. He has been working with locative media since 2013, after joining the Locative Audio project organised by Manchester University, for which he created the Hanoi Soundwalk with Mathias Rossignol. He has commissioned artists to make soundwalks in Vietnam and Denmark, and now is helping to grow an international community of locative experience practitioners. Echoes was originally funded by the Embassy of Denmark in Vietnam’s Cultural Development and Exchange Fund, and a crowdfunding campaign, and now works with individuals and businesses all over the world.