Join us on Wednesday 5 March 2025, 15:00-17:00, at LSBU’s XR Studio, Room LH135, The Hub, for a demo session of the technology available at our latest research facility – the XR Studio – followed by a talk by XR Studio Manager and artist Kristina Pulejkova.
This is a chance to visit the newly set up studio, equipped with cutting edge virtual production technologies, and through use cases and hands on demos, learn what the possibilities are for carrying out future research.
The artist talk will focus on projects that have been created using some of the technologies available at the Studio, with specific interest in ecologies, as well as digital accessibility and AI-based visual approaches.
Plan:
15:00 – Welcome and introduction to the studio
15:15 – Studio Demo (MOCAP, AI, VR)
16:00 – Artist Talk
16:45 – Discussion
About the LSBU XR Studio
The XR Studio is a digital creation and research facility that uses cutting-edge technology to support academic research and creative businesses in prototyping and designing new immersive and interactive products and processes.
Located at LSBU’s Southwark Campus at The Hub building, the XR Studio is equipped with the latest technology suited for Virtual Production, 3D modelling, VR / AR / XR experience prototyping, Motion Capture technology and high-spec computers equipped with game engines and creative development software for making new and exciting work using creative technology.
About Kristina Pulejkova
Kristina Pulejkova is the XR Studio Manager and a visual artist with an interdisciplinary practice informed by science and technology. She has been leading on the delivery of the BIG South London programme at LSBU, supporting businesses to innovate using the XR Studio facility.
Kristina’s work explores how the use of technology might lead to greater forms of sustainability in human-nature relationships. Working across moving image, immersive design, and installation, she aims to build subjective narratives based on scientific data and principles. In her work, she tends to imagine voices from creatures, objects and even atoms to inhabit non-human perspectives. Through the use of immersive technology, her works often deal with environmental issues, telling personal stories that place audiences at the centre of the scene, allowing for a protagonist’s perspective and a different way of seeing.
Kristina holds a Magisterium Degree (BA + MA) in Painting and Animation from the University for Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria (2012) and an MA Degree in Art and Science from Central Saint Martins, London, UK (2014). She is the recipient of the inaugural FLAMIN Fellowship by Film London (2017). Kristina’s works have been exhibited/screened at the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AT; National Gallery, Skopje, NMK; MoCA, Skopje NMK; The Science Museum, London, UK; MAN Museum, Sardinia, IT; The V&A, London, UK; MAK, Vienna, AT; Project Space Kunsthalle, Vienna, AT; Het Glaspaviljoen, Eindhoven, NL; Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, NL; Art COP21 Paris, FR; Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; Art Licks Festival, London UK; Lewisham Art House, London, UK; and Royal College of Arts, London, UK amongst others.
Images: [Top] Screenshot from Pulejkova’s most recent work The Living Factory; [Lower] Motion capture in the studio.