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Nicola Plant

Immersive Media and Visual Artist | Researcher

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About

Nicola Plant is an immersive media & visual artist and researcher with an academic and artistic practice that spans embodiment, technology and movement-based interactive art. Nicola creates digital interactive artworks, installations and performances, specialising in real-time graphics and movement-based interactivity using motion-capture and sensors. Her practice develops interactive immersive artworks that explore expressive movement and empathy. More broadly, her practice addresses the question of how technology can augment or deconstruct the experience of embodiment.

News

Aug 1, 2024

Visceral Histories, Visual Arguments research project wrap up

As my work on project Visceral Histories, Visual Arguments draws to a close, I reflect on the process behind creating each immersive movement data visualisation ...

June 18, 2024

Talk and artist showcase at Gazelli Art House

Great night at the Gazelli Art House for the GAZELL.iO meetup #2, featuring talks and artworks by myself and other residency artists. Presenting a new glitch version of my residency work Affective Delineation Series...

May 31, 2024

Practice work at MOCO'24 conference

Over the past 2 years I have been working as creative technologist on research project Visceral Histories, Visual Arguments at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. We recently showed an immersive work in progress of our movement data visualisations for the 9th edition of the Movement and Computing conference (MOCO) this year in Utrecht...

8 May, 2024

Sentient Flux shown at the Science Museum

To celebrate the launch of book I have recently contributed to: Robotic Vision and Virtual Interfacings: Seeing, Sensing, Shaping. I spent an evening at the Science Museum showing work Sentient Flux, by myself and Alexandra Adderley back in 2015, the focus of my chapter Embodiment and the Perception of Nonhuman Sentience in Virtual Reality Interactive Art alongside other contributors presentations and demonstrations...