Arts-focused Freelance Creative Technologist
Ben Neal
"always at the cutting edge of technology, education and arts practice"
- Andrew Pearsall (BCU)
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Kerryn Wise
Dis_place
2019-2020

Dis_place was a one-on-one immersive dance performance in The People's Hall, Nottingham. Visitors wore bone-conducting headphones which played sound over a distributed Bluetooth network as they were lead around a disused building. In each room they encountered live performers and 360 VR videos. One room of the building was recorded using volumetric capture (Depthkit with Kinect Camera) and recreated in VR using Unity complete with ghostly dancers.

PC VR Download. Shown at Dance Camera Istanbul, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham and LCB Depot, Leicester. Photo credit-Julian Hughes.

Funded by Arts Council England

Motionhouse
VR Demo
2020

This VR demo was created with Motionhouse at De Montfort University to trial volumetric capture and VR. Scenery provided by Motionhouse was transformed into a Virtual Reality city around which users can navigate. Dance performances were captured using the Azure Kinect depth camera to create 3D volumetric performers. As people explore the city performers are triggered along with other surreal encounters inside and around the empty buildings.

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Open Data Institute
Mood Pinball
2018-2020

Mood Pinball is an artwork in the form of a pinball game. Made with artists Edie Jo Murray and Harmeet Chagger-Khan, Mood Pinball allows players to expose city-wide noise data by visiting different locations at different times of day. Your mood can rise or fall based on noise levels, and the aim is to stay happy. A full size physical pinball machine was constructed with arcade buttons and ball shooter, and you can play on your phone as an Android mobile app, or in the browser.

Android Download and Play Online. Shown at Victoria and Albert Museum, The Open Data Institute, The Herbert Gallery, BOM, Coventry Biennial, The Bond Gallery and Broadway Cinema.

Commissioned by the Open Data Institute (ODI) in partnership with the University of Southampton DataStories project, supported by the EPSRC, grant number EP/PO25676/1. Produced by BOM. Pinball cabinet by Joseph Welden with additional laser cutting by Juneau Projects. Music by Arc Vel. Photo credit-Paul Clarke.

4/11
"great to collaborate with, creating some really inspiring work"
- Oliver Scott, Mercurial Dance