Narrative and Emerging Technologies

Funded as part of the Expanded Performance pathway within the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Partnership, Sharon Clark developed an innovative prototype based on an augmented reality umbrella that communicates storyworld and narrative mood, functioning as an immersive lead-in for audiences about to attend The Undrowned, a theatre production produced by Sharon’s immersive theatre company, Raucous.

Funded as part of the Expanded Performance pathway within the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Partnership, Astrid Breel partnered with Coney to develop a new toolkit for better understanding how to communicate with audiences about the needs and expectations for participatory and experiential performance.

Funded as part of the Amplified Publishing pathway within the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Partnership, Agnieszka Janik McErlean is conducted psychology and audience research into the role of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), a cross-sensory phenomenon in which individuals experience a pleasant tingling sensation which usually originates on the scalp and spreads throughout the body in response to specific audio-visual triggers, in new forms of digital communication.

The project examined how ASMR-experiencers responded to various realistic videos and audio recordings of human (whisper, tapping, handling crinkly objects) and non-human sounds (e.g. rain drops or bird song).

Funded through the Narrative & Emerging Technology cross-cutting strand within the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Partnership, Andrew Joyce-Gibbons created HayMay – a new app aimed at facilitating collaboration amongst school, college and university students, making use of an innovative ‘flicking’ gesture that allowed students to transport digital artefacts from one screen to another in the aim of collaborative learning.

Funded through the Narrative & Emerging Technology cross-cutting strand within the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Partnership, the team used emerging technologies to create new forms of communication between the current student body and future students,  investigating how data capture, curation and creative visualisation can communicate narratives of connectedness and community across the university, and to prospective students through Open Days and Experience Days.

Funded through the Narrative & Emerging Technology cross-cutting strand within the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Partnership, Ron Herrema created an audio-based mobile application that engages the questions and concerns that students and parents typically have when they arrive on Open Days.

Funded through the Narrative and Emerging Technology cross-cutting strand within the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Partnership, Rachel Pownall undertook research into how best to use immersive/emerging technology to create a narrative that uses historical documents including letters and diaries.

Funded through the Narrative & Emerging Technology cross-cutting strand within the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Partnership, the Sound of the Seahorse will innovatively applied audionarratology to the emerging field of immersive audio to create an immersive audio story designed to amplify the relaxing therapeutic benefits of a massage.

Funded through the Narrative & Emerging Technology cross-cutting strand within the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Partnership and in collaboration with the Immersive Audio Network, Ximena Alarcón worked in collaboration with Oslo-based composer and spatial audio researcher Ulf A. S. Holbrook, to develop their sound work: Unravelling. The work was based on recordings of eight different Colombian migrant women expressing their own migratory journeys in Spanish and English and responded to fragments of an oral archive with testimonies collected by the organisation Diaspora Women in 2018.