Galway 2020, presentation ‘ Virtual Capital of Culture’

Galway2020 will give a presentation on their “Virtual Capital of Culture” project. The aim of the presentation is to give some background to the project, and to encourage researchers to submit proposals for projects that use a set of emerging technologies to explore Galway2020’s European themes of Language, Landscape and Migration.

More About the Project

Galway2020 recently introduced one of Galway’s most ambitious projects as part of the bid to become the European Capital of Culture – ‰Û÷Window of the World’. This project initially entitled the ‰Û÷Virtual Capital of Culture‘ is based around the use of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Holography and 3D projection mapping to:

• ̢åÑå Explore the application of these emerging technologies and mediums to immerse people in entirely new artistic experiences, tell stories in completely new ways and look at the world from new perspectives.
• ̢åÑå Revolutionise the way people remotely experience culture in virtual environments and open up our programme of events to 500m citizens across Europe.

They are interested in projects inspired by Galway2020’s European themes of Language, Landscape and Migration, and are particularly interested in exploring these European themes through both the local Galway context and the lens of wider European experience.

With the overlap between these themes and the research interests of many researchers associated with the Moore Institute, there is a fantastic opportunity to partner with external technology providers and producers to create interesting work as part of the proposed 2020 programme.

Further details from: David Kelly – david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie