Adapting narratives to VR and multimedia art (23.8.2022)

Conversations on the changing landscape of storytelling with an award-winning VR-director Mika Johnson from Frame Rate Oy.

Mika Johnson is a multimedia artist interested in dream-like narratives, mythos, ritual, and biodiversity. While his concentration is designing VR experiences and multimedia installations, Johnson also directs fiction and documentary projects. His first VR project, VRwandlung, is a virtual reality adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, which was featured in Stern Magazine and The Economist. The project also traveled to over 50 cities, worldwide. Johnson’s present projects include The Infinite Library, which reimagines the library through a traveling installation, and The Republic of Dreams: a multimedia project which adapts the work of Bruno Schulz, using video, illustrations, an online interactive map, and sonic experiences. Long-term projects include The Amerikans - a web series featuring 15 short documentaries - and his 2020 debut feature - Confessions of a Box Man - which is the first part in a trilogy.

Speaker: Mika Johnson

Keywords: AR ja MR teknologiat, audio, multimedia, video, VR, XR