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Immersive Environments

The final Crete lab moves into the gorges and caves of Sfakia, one of Crete's most rugged and remote regions. Fieldwork includes LiDAR scanning and possible coring of an ephemeral lake in the Aradena gorge, drip-water sampling and palaeontology in the Drakolaki and Skoteini caves, and visits to a cave shrine. These generate spatial data that can be walked through as well as read. Participants explore how point clouds, spatial audio, XR and physical installation can turn scientific survey into embodied experience, so audiences can stand inside a landscape's climate history. As the closing lab, it also gathers threads from the previous four. That positions immersive prototypes for public testing in gallery, museum and touring-exhibition settings.

Lab Participants

Learn more about this labs participants by clicking on their image. Many of the researchers and partners work on several labs, and these connections are shown below. 

Lab Journal and Updates

Throughout the lab, researchers, artists and partners reflect on their involvement in the project. View and follow lab updates here in the form of our shared lab journal. 

Growth and time

20/10/26

Artist Notes

Scott Radnor

Author

Growth / change / nature patterns / geological time and arboreal time.

Conversation in Chainispilios Cave

19/10/26

Artist Notes

(Zillah) Butler

Author

Notes on first day and emerging conversations

Entanglement ponderings en route to Crete

19/10/26

Update

(Zillah) Butler

Author

Thoughts about entanglements, islands, Macfarlane's writing in The Old Ways and thinking about Crete.

A Kettle of Vultures...

17/10/26

Update

Mark Kasumovic

With James Bendle, Victoria Geaney, Xiao Ma and Yang Shen.

Today we scouted the Day 5 AVL 1 activity to make sure it was accessible on the day… a few surprises and near-disasters along the way!

The morphing caves of Crete.

15/10/26

Artist Notes

Mark Kasumovic

With James Bendle.

A few reflections on the magic of caves before leaving for the first Artist Venturing Lab.

Lab journal content not yet available, but will be added after the lab start dates. 

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