Ben Neal
@psiconlab.bsky.social
Arts-focused freelance Creative Technologist, Digital Artist, programmer, games/gadget builder, educator. Making technology-infused Immersive Art experiences.
www.displace.org.uk
www.psiconlab.co.uk
www.displace.org.uk
www.psiconlab.co.uk
Congratulations to all this year's Lumen Prize Winners! @lumenprize.bsky.social We had a blast at Kunstsilo gallery in Kristiansand, Norway at the Awards Ceremony with Replica as a Finalist in the Music & Performance category. So many incredible projects & artists lumenprize.org/2025-winners
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Congratulations to all this year's Lumen Prize Winners! @lumenprize.bsky.social We had a blast at Kunstsilo gallery in Kristiansand, Norway at the Awards Ceremony with Replica as a Finalist in the Music & Performance category. So many incredible projects & artists lumenprize.org/2025-winners
A fantastic week in Prague at the Art*VR Festival at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art showing REPLICA. 6 days of Mixed Reality performances plus the Zip-Scene conference
October 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
A fantastic week in Prague at the Art*VR Festival at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art showing REPLICA. 6 days of Mixed Reality performances plus the Zip-Scene conference
ECSTATIC to announce we're a FINALIST for the Lumen Prize! With over 2,200+ submissions from 71 countries, amongst the most boundary-pushing, conceptually rich, & technically innovative work in the world, we are truly honoured for REPLICA to be chosen!
lumenprize.org/2025-perform...
lumenprize.org/2025-perform...
August 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
ECSTATIC to announce we're a FINALIST for the Lumen Prize! With over 2,200+ submissions from 71 countries, amongst the most boundary-pushing, conceptually rich, & technically innovative work in the world, we are truly honoured for REPLICA to be chosen!
lumenprize.org/2025-perform...
lumenprize.org/2025-perform...
Learn about respiratory medicine while flying through a patient's lungs treating them in this VR app.
Created for www.bioreme.net. Funded by EPSRC & NIHR (@nihr.bsky.social) BRC (at Manchester, @nottmnihr-brc-msir.bsky.social, Exeter, @imperialbrc.bsky.social) .
More info : psiconlab.co.uk
Created for www.bioreme.net. Funded by EPSRC & NIHR (@nihr.bsky.social) BRC (at Manchester, @nottmnihr-brc-msir.bsky.social, Exeter, @imperialbrc.bsky.social) .
More info : psiconlab.co.uk
July 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Learn about respiratory medicine while flying through a patient's lungs treating them in this VR app.
Created for www.bioreme.net. Funded by EPSRC & NIHR (@nihr.bsky.social) BRC (at Manchester, @nottmnihr-brc-msir.bsky.social, Exeter, @imperialbrc.bsky.social) .
More info : psiconlab.co.uk
Created for www.bioreme.net. Funded by EPSRC & NIHR (@nihr.bsky.social) BRC (at Manchester, @nottmnihr-brc-msir.bsky.social, Exeter, @imperialbrc.bsky.social) .
More info : psiconlab.co.uk
@pcmcreative.bsky.social think I spotted you in the Uncanny Alley..!
June 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
@pcmcreative.bsky.social think I spotted you in the Uncanny Alley..!
I'm at SXSW London on Tuesday thanks to @vipstudio.bsky.social & Department for Business and Trade.
Come along, say hi & find out about mixed reality, holographic performance, and AI!
Find us at UK House, 7 Devonshire Square, London, EC2M 4YH
#sxswLondon #VirtualProduction #ImmersiveTech #VR
Come along, say hi & find out about mixed reality, holographic performance, and AI!
Find us at UK House, 7 Devonshire Square, London, EC2M 4YH
#sxswLondon #VirtualProduction #ImmersiveTech #VR
June 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I'm at SXSW London on Tuesday thanks to @vipstudio.bsky.social & Department for Business and Trade.
Come along, say hi & find out about mixed reality, holographic performance, and AI!
Find us at UK House, 7 Devonshire Square, London, EC2M 4YH
#sxswLondon #VirtualProduction #ImmersiveTech #VR
Come along, say hi & find out about mixed reality, holographic performance, and AI!
Find us at UK House, 7 Devonshire Square, London, EC2M 4YH
#sxswLondon #VirtualProduction #ImmersiveTech #VR
3rd episode of new Black Mirror series on Netflix has the interesting story of a woman who plays a character in a simulated film. There's a few nods to VR theatre and some other ideas around a players relationship to other game characters, intimacy, agency and so on. Worth a watch
April 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
3rd episode of new Black Mirror series on Netflix has the interesting story of a woman who plays a character in a simulated film. There's a few nods to VR theatre and some other ideas around a players relationship to other game characters, intimacy, agency and so on. Worth a watch
Face palm. I'm on GMT...
April 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Face palm. I'm on GMT...
Went fishing in Horizon Worlds with Richard. It was fun! Ditch the kids and weirdos and get social in your own instance with people you know - 1000 times better
March 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Went fishing in Horizon Worlds with Richard. It was fun! Ditch the kids and weirdos and get social in your own instance with people you know - 1000 times better
This weekend was the premiere of the new Displace Studio Mixed Reality performance REPLICA - dancing with a digital double. We had some incredible feedback and wonderful audience responses. Look out for a new video teaser and future dates, coming soon! Follow @studiodisplace on Instagram.
March 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
This weekend was the premiere of the new Displace Studio Mixed Reality performance REPLICA - dancing with a digital double. We had some incredible feedback and wonderful audience responses. Look out for a new video teaser and future dates, coming soon! Follow @studiodisplace on Instagram.
Facades! At SXSW in Austin, Texas!! Also get a sneak peak of new performance REPLICA.
Thanks to:
@UniofNottingham @VIPStudioUoN
@UKatSXSW
@biztradegovukna
@scalerrglobal
@artscouncilengland.bsky.social
Invest in UK University R&D, and Department for Trade & Business.
#SxSW #UKHouse #UKatSxSW
Thanks to:
@UniofNottingham @VIPStudioUoN
@UKatSXSW
@biztradegovukna
@scalerrglobal
@artscouncilengland.bsky.social
Invest in UK University R&D, and Department for Trade & Business.
#SxSW #UKHouse #UKatSxSW
March 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Facades! At SXSW in Austin, Texas!! Also get a sneak peak of new performance REPLICA.
Thanks to:
@UniofNottingham @VIPStudioUoN
@UKatSXSW
@biztradegovukna
@scalerrglobal
@artscouncilengland.bsky.social
Invest in UK University R&D, and Department for Trade & Business.
#SxSW #UKHouse #UKatSxSW
Thanks to:
@UniofNottingham @VIPStudioUoN
@UKatSXSW
@biztradegovukna
@scalerrglobal
@artscouncilengland.bsky.social
Invest in UK University R&D, and Department for Trade & Business.
#SxSW #UKHouse #UKatSxSW
Would you like to find out how a real and virtual performer can share the same stage? We'll be doing a day workshop in Nottingham in April on how we made REPLICA.
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/dance-...
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/dance-...
March 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Would you like to find out how a real and virtual performer can share the same stage? We'll be doing a day workshop in Nottingham in April on how we made REPLICA.
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/dance-...
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/dance-...
We (Displace Studio) are super appreciative of @thespacearts.bsky.social for supporting our current project REPLICA. In early tests people had a strong positive response, it really is innovative, and addresses important issues - with a real performer shoulder-to-shoulder with their virtual double
February 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
We (Displace Studio) are super appreciative of @thespacearts.bsky.social for supporting our current project REPLICA. In early tests people had a strong positive response, it really is innovative, and addresses important issues - with a real performer shoulder-to-shoulder with their virtual double
Experience a real and virtual performer at the same time! Great couple of days rehearsing and testing REPLICA by Displace Studio at Fabric (Nottingham) & Dance East (Ipswich). Premiere at Lakeside Arts (Notts) - Sold Out
January 31, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Experience a real and virtual performer at the same time! Great couple of days rehearsing and testing REPLICA by Displace Studio at Fabric (Nottingham) & Dance East (Ipswich). Premiere at Lakeside Arts (Notts) - Sold Out
Had a fantastic day yesterday testing out the new Studio Displace mixed reality dance performance REPLICA at BOM in Birmingham. REPLICA combines audience interactions with a live and virtual dancer simultaneously. Supported by @thespacearts.bsky.social, NearNow, & @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Had a fantastic day yesterday testing out the new Studio Displace mixed reality dance performance REPLICA at BOM in Birmingham. REPLICA combines audience interactions with a live and virtual dancer simultaneously. Supported by @thespacearts.bsky.social, NearNow, & @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
Happy New Year! I had one of my best ever, which kicked off with interactive artwork Glimmer with artist Sian Fan shown at Cute at the V&A, then a reboot of the pioneering Mixed Reality multiplayer game Can You See Me Now? with Blast Theory, and ended with the new Displace Studio performance REPLICA
January 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Happy New Year! I had one of my best ever, which kicked off with interactive artwork Glimmer with artist Sian Fan shown at Cute at the V&A, then a reboot of the pioneering Mixed Reality multiplayer game Can You See Me Now? with Blast Theory, and ended with the new Displace Studio performance REPLICA
Check out this crazy "inside-out" volumetric capture rig we put together to shoot a scene in our latest mixed reality performance REPLICA. 360° Kinect cameras!
November 30, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Check out this crazy "inside-out" volumetric capture rig we put together to shoot a scene in our latest mixed reality performance REPLICA. 360° Kinect cameras!
Had a good time at the Digital Body Festival last week with Kerryn Wise as Displace Studio. We spoke about our new Mixed Reality performance REPLICA in which you interact with a virtual performer along side the real one
November 24, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Had a good time at the Digital Body Festival last week with Kerryn Wise as Displace Studio. We spoke about our new Mixed Reality performance REPLICA in which you interact with a virtual performer along side the real one
So cool to play my first Blast Theory game!! Even better cos I worked on it :) Can You See Me Now? was so much fun! Dedicated to an old friend of mine. www.blasttheory.co.uk/news-item/bo...
November 21, 2024 at 1:09 PM
So cool to play my first Blast Theory game!! Even better cos I worked on it :) Can You See Me Now? was so much fun! Dedicated to an old friend of mine. www.blasttheory.co.uk/news-item/bo...
Speaking at this excellent festival Saturday digital-body.com/programme/bo...
November 15, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Speaking at this excellent festival Saturday digital-body.com/programme/bo...