Watershed announces six MyWorld Fellowships in Residence opportunities
Watershed is delighted to announce its six MyWorld Fellowships in Residence. These span;
- Performance & audiences in the metaverse with Condense Reality (a practice-based and an academic fellowship)
- Motion and physical feedback in VR with Zero Point Motion
- Researching how AI can affect the creative process in drone light shows with Celestial
- Exploring new ways of interacting with giant tactile robots with Air Giants
- Exploring how people with different disabilities might experience and value various interaction mechanisms in location-based VR with Marshmallow Laser Feast, All Seeing Eye and University of the West of England (UWE).
The fellows will complement the teams that are currently developing prototypes as part of the Collaborative Research & Development (CR&D) projects supported by Digital Catapult.
The fellowships are aimed at freelancers, practitioners, industry, and academics and are intended to be a period of collaborative thinking and experimentation, applying practice, expertise, or relevant experience. They are an opportunity to explore ethical questions, consider what makes a meaningful experience for audiences, ask new questions and test high-risk ideas.
More about the opportunities:
Condense Fellowship in Residence: £12,000 for six months at roughly 2.5 days/week.
Practitioners with live stage production experience are invited to apply.
Condense + Understanding Audiences Research Fellowship in Residence (academic): £20,000 for ten months at roughly 2.5 days/week.
Practitioners with a background in behavioural science and interest in virtual stage technology are inited to apply.
Zero Point Motion Fellowship in Residence: £12,000 for six months at roughly 2.5 days/week.
Practitioners with games development skills and human and computer interactions (HCI) knowledge are invited to apply.
Celestial Fellowship in Residence: £12,000 for six months at roughly 2.5 days/week.
Practitioners with C# programming and/or python coding skills are invited to apply.
Air Giants Fellowship in Residence: £20,000 for ten months at roughly 2.5 days/week.
Practitioners with experience in producing audience test events and interest in tactile and bodily interaction are invited to apply.
Marshmallow Laser Feast + All Seeing Eye + UWE Fellowship in Residence: £12,000 for six months at roughly 2.5 days/week. Practitioners with inclusive, user-centred design experience are invited to apply.
Closing date for all Fellowships in Residence: Thursday 20 April 2023 10.00 a.m.