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psiconlab.bsky.social
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
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
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
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...
August 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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
July 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
@pcmcreative.bsky.social think I spotted you in the Uncanny Alley..!
June 22, 2025 at 10:02 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
June 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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
Face palm. I'm on GMT...
April 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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
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
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
March 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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-...
March 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Speaking at this excellent festival Saturday digital-body.com/programme/bo...
November 15, 2024 at 2:24 PM