NewImages Festival organizers and Jury member announce the official selection of the 2022 XR Competition. For this year edition official jury members selected 15 immersive artworks (virtual reality, augmented reality, binaural sound).
NewImages Festival is thrilled with the 250 or so submissions it received this year, from all over the world. The applicants’ projects are ever more ambitious and innovative, and more mature, both stylistically and narratively. They demonstrate the vibrancy of the XR sector and the remarkable inventiveness of their creators. In style, they bear witness to reflections on new uses and exploration of new techniques in staging. In substance, a trend seems to have emerged
– immersive works with a more social outlook that cast light on the state of the world but remain suffused with poetry and imagination.
The selected artworks of the 5th edition will be judged by an international jury. They will be showcased from June 8th to 12th at the Forum des images and in other Parisian venues but will also be accessible via the virtual platform Alexandria, co-produced by the NewImages Festival and Cannes XR and developed by Kreis.


Each year within the framework of the NewImages XR Market, the XR Development Market brings together some 175 professionals from more than 30 different countries and organizes more than 450 one-to-one meetings in order to connect the most promising and recognized artists and/or producers of the moment with the most influential curators, programmers, and distributors coming from the whole world, as well as with the heads of content from leading technology companies.
As usual, the XR Development Market (dedicated to the co-production of projects under development) brings together new talents and award-winning artists from around the world, including Diego Prilusky (Grease XR), Stéphane Foenkinos (Jalouse), Amir Admoni & Fabito Rychter (Gravity VR), Joanne Popinska (The Choice), Navid Khonsari (1979 Revolution: Black Friday), Lilian Hess (Cosmos Within Us) and Matthew Shaw & William Trossell (Eternal Return).

Lastly, the NewImages XR Market will be hosting around eighty Decision Makers this year. Many museum curators and program planners from cultural institutes will be taking part in the event for the first time! Among the attendees are the Orsay Museum and the Orangerie Museum (Saskia Bakhuys), the Louis Vuitton Foundation (Candice Chenu), the Australian entre for Contemporary Art (Miriam Kelly), the Barbican Centre (Patrick Moran), Peer to Space (Tina Sauerlaender), Yahoo Ryot Studios (Nigel Tierney), and the Hong Kong Arts Centre (Teresa Kwong). Other names will soon be announced.

As a brand new section of the NewImages XR Market, the XR Art Fair program is the first marketplace entirely dedicated to the distribution of immersive artworks. About 40 companies will join the XR Art Fair to meet future partners to whom their projects will be presented.
With this new program, the NewImages Festival can be considered as the first professional event in the world entirely dedicated to the distribution of immersive artworks.
The XR Art Fair will be held in Paris and online from May 2022 as part of the 5th NewImages Festival. It is designed in such a way that all participants – whether they attend the event in real life or remotely – will be able to get the best quality of service and get the most from the event.
The XR Art Fair seeks to foster the spread of these works via a global network of museums and cultural centers. Many of the sector’s most innovative firms can be found in this brand-new section, including Atlas V, Makropol, Faber Courtial, Satore Studio, Interactive Media Foundation GmbH, Blimey, 3dar, Innerspace VR, Lucid Realities, Petrichor VR, and Diversion Cinema.
NewImages Festival Location : PARIS /DATE: JUNE 8-12/2022

Its XR Development Market gathers the major players of the XR Industry around a selection of projects open to all kinds of immersive formats. The XR Art Fair aims to activate an international distribution network in order to promote the circulation of XR works. The festival also supports immersive creation and its industry by initiating collaborative XR creation residencies with other countries and regions in the world, such as Taiwan (Kaohsiung Film festival and TAICCA), Africa, and Latin America. NewImages Festival is produced and organized by Forum des Images, a cultural institution dedicated to cinema and digital creation, supported by the City of Paris.
Website: https://newimagesfestival.com/en/ | |
DATE: JANUARY 20-30/2022 | |
LOC: PARIS |

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