WEIRD REALITY: Head-Mounted Art && Code was a symposium and exhibition dedicated to exploring new and independent visions for virtual, augmented and mixed reality.
Featuring 60+ presenters and exhibiting artists, Weird Reality brought together seminal and emerging voices, diverse perspectives, creative and critical positions in order to showcase innovations that depart from typical tech fantasies and normative media.
Artist lectures, speed presentations, technical demos, discussion panels, and a participant-driven un-conference took place at Carnegie Mellon University.
A free VR Salon, presented in collaboration with the 2016 VIA Festival at Ace Hotel, offered the public a chance to experience a wide range of works by Weird Reality artists utilizing Microsoft Hololens, Oculus Rift, PlaystationVR, Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard, and HTC Vive.
Presenting & Exhibiting Artists
Keynote Speakers: Brenda Laurel / Michael Naimark / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun / Vi Hart
Artificial Nature
Salome Asega (Iyapo Repository - with Ayo Okunseinde)
Jeremy Bailey
Rick Barraza
Nitzan Bartov
Tea Brain
Cindy Sherman Bishop
Ricardo Cabello (Mr. Doob)
Laura Juo-Hsin Chen
Dorian Dargan
Jax Deluca
Emily Eifle
Yasmin Elayat
Jason Eppink
Nick Fox-Gieg
Elaine Gomez
Andrea Hawksley
Claire Hentschker
Martha Hipley
Keene Ijeoma
Institute for New Feeling
Haru Ji & Graham Wakefield
Kokoromi Collective (SuperHypercube - with Heather Kelley, Cindy Poremba)
Ingrid Kopp
Sam Lavigne
Christopher Manzione
LaJune McMillian
Ali Momeni
Dan Moore
Kelani Nichole
Mani Nichiani & Caroline Sinders
Ryan Pamplin
Rosalind Paradis
Paolo Pedercini
Ken Perlin
Winslow Porter
Rachel Rossin
Sara Rothberg
Alfredo Salazar-Caro (DiMoDA - with William Robertson, Helena Acosta, Eileen Skyers, Claudia Hart, Jacolby Satterwhite, Brenna Murphy, Rosa Menkman)
Omer Shapira
Larry Shea
Mark Skwarek
Greg J. Smith
Char Stiles & Alicia Iott
Jesse Stiles
Scatter (Clouds, The Exquisite Museum - James George, Alexander Porter, Mei-Ling Wong)
Social VR (Ralph Kim, Michelle Ma, Benjamin Scott)
Barry Threw
VNgravity (Gibrann Morgado, Salvador Loza)
Angela Washko
Stefan Welker
Mars Wong
Robert Yang
Milicia Zek