Placing Spaces: exploring place-based entanglements through creative technologiesSince 2023, Harry has been collaborating with his daughter Poppy, young people and migrant mothers in Bristol, UK to explore significant places in their local environments through creative technologies. In this Bunker Talk, Harry will reflect on his Placing Spaces project, which uses 3D scanning, recorded audio and location-based AR (Augmented Reality) to document participants' place attachments and create locative AR experiences for audiences.
Harry is an artist-researcher and Lecturer in Digital Theatre and Performance-Making at the University of Bristol. Harry’s research focuses on interdisciplinary explorations of live art and performance, photography, documentation, digital art and new media through critical theory and artistic research. Recently Harry has been exploring intersections between immersive technologies and intimate performance, including in site-specific AR and VR performance. He was Digital Thinker in Residence at the National Theatre of Scotland (2018-19) and Research Associate on the Walking Publics / Walking Arts project (2021-22) at the University of Glasgow. He is currently writing a book on The Expanded Dramaturgies of Virtual Reality Performance for Methuen’s ‘Performance and Digital Cultures’ series.