2018 HEAR Now Festival Featured Programming:

HEAR Now's 2018 VR Arcade

     Christopher Romero returns to HEAR Now with Your Part! Don the VR headset and trigger the Foley sounds that accompany a short piece of play.
     Learn what Gil saw from the top of the ridge and the mysteries of those dang machines. Narrators needed to bring the words to life as the audience watches the events unfold. The Hills, The Farm, Factory and The Bells await your visit so hurry, don't delay and make your way to Your Part today!

HEAR Now Virtual Reality Arcade Hours:

THURSDAY,  June 7, 2018
10:00am - 6:00pm
Holiday Inn Country Club Lobby

FRIDAY,  June 8, 2018
10:00am - 6:00pm
Holiday Inn Country Club Lobby

SATURDAY,  June 9, 2018
10:00am - 6:00pm
Holiday Inn Country Club Lobby
Open to General Public & Festival Pass Holders

All HEAR Now Festival Pass holders get one free pass through the Virtual Reality Arcade.
Additional demos are $5.00 for HEAR Now Festival Pass holders.
(Only 1 per pass holder, demos are not transferable.)

GENERAL PUBLIC:
Saturday, June 9th HEAR Now opens the Virtual Reality Arcade to the public.
$5.00 minimum donation at the door for public VR Demos.
Cash only please, no checks or credit cards.

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Create with Cosmic Sugar  
     In addition to Your Part, you'll also be able to try Cosmic Sugar. Created by David Lobser, Cosmic Sugar is an elegant, GPU driven simulation space. Vive wands become attractors or repulsors which allow you to craft nebulas. What you choose creates unique visual an sonic moments.

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Vist VR Musuem Château d'Art Futur

   A third VR presentation, created by students from New York University's Future Reality: Trends and Impact of New Media class is a VR museum called "Château d'Art Futur" -- a beautifully rendered, 19th-Century French château that includes a labyrinth garden with compelling vistas of forests and mountains. The viewer dons an Oculus Rift VR headset and is transported to the château's museum's grounds, where a 360 look-around of the landscape unfolds. During the experience, the attending guide will encourage the viewer to explore the exterior surroundings and then go through the door of Château d'Art Futur --  to walk inside the VR museum. NYU students have class projects, which are housed in the interior hallways and inside gallery rooms, tailor-made for each student's creative endeavors. The VR participant experiences the artworks as if they were in a real museum. There will be digital paintings, sculptures, innovative new media art installations with music, immersive 360-short films, podcasts, and a motion-captured dancer who reacts to the song and words of a memory poem being spoken -- and more.  Château d'Art Futur is a VR experience of original artwork, unlike any other virtual reality museum.

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VR Arcage
Cast & Crew:

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David Lobser - Cosmic Sugar
Artist, Animator and Code Techie

David Lobser is an internationally recognized, award winning animation director. He uses algorithmic, procedural generation techniques to create lush virtual worlds. He is interested in pushing computer animated effects into the realm of the intricate, messy and imperfect in order to articulate complex feelings and sensations. He has an extensive background in commercial animation and visual effects, has taught animation at Harvard University, and is presently the senior artist in residence at NYU’s Media Research Lab.

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Pasan Dharmasena - Curator for Château d'Art Futur

Pasan is a 3D animator and modeler with strong 2D skills. he is passionate about creating narrative experiences through the use of movement and animation.

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Christopher Romero - Your Part

Christopher is a long time practitioner of the interacktive teknologickals. He studied Poetics at New College of California with Robert Duncan and was recently published in Sensitive Skin magazine. He plays Balinese Gamelan, electronic percussion and electric/acoustic strings. As a solo artist he has created two albums of material : “Pretty Sketchy” and “Some Are”. He produced two DVDs (“3 Films By Elias Romero” and “Ramayana”) and conceived, produced and created projections for the shadow puppet play Wayang Jataka.

Professionally he has lead the technical production teams at Nickelodeon Online (nick.com), Worldwide Biggies (Princess Bride Game, American Girl Virtual Word), FunGoPlay (connected online virtual world), Adoptive (Yale Medicine application servers), HolojamVR (COO) and Amplify (Associate Director of Front End Development). In VR he developed code and UX for Flock, a HolojamVR piece that premiered at the Festival of Storytelling, a demo for the CEO of Ikea, a model of an airport for a phobia reduction game, and designed the world and wrote code on Your Part.  

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