NEWVIEW SCHOOL London 2022

Lorna Inman is an award-winning Virtual Reality Artist, creating hand-painted immersive experiences. Specialising in storytelling through 3D environment design using Tilt Brush, she has created immersive experiences, 360-degree film and videos for companies including Google, Nutkhut, Virtual Reality Experiences London and The Immersive Kind. Her illustrative landscapes reflect her background and former studies in BA Hons Art and Design (International) at the University of Leeds.

An experimental new media provocateur. Prior to PlayLa.bZ, he co-founded Korean start-up DoubleMe, and launched the Award Winning & Worlds First HoloPortal™ at Ravensbourne University London. His work as a maker of psychedelic, pop culture reference & counter narrative multi-dimensional motion arts experiences has led to him being described by the Sunday Times as a ‘trippy hippy’ technologist and a transformative tech tinkerer. With a background in the motion arts at British Film Institute & National Film & Television Archive the UK's lead film organisation, helping open the IMAX in 1990s & award winning pioneer of web and social video with campaigns generating multi-million views & even saving teenage lives with YouTube brand funded storytelling, now a regular lecturer at Ravensbourne Screen School on Emerging Film Technology. Broke the world record for a live VR experience at Londons Comic Con, with his social video collaborations for the British Red Cross playing the Pyaramid stage at Glastonbury & recent collaborations featured at Museum of the Moving Image New York, V&A, Tate Modern, London Design Festival, Boomtown Festival, Aesthetica, MozFest, Mobile World Congress, IBC 50th Anniversary BBC Click & Oxford University Press.

Rosie is a 3D animator and Virtual Reality Artist, bringing characters and worlds to life in new dimensions. As a live VR art performer, Rosie continuously wows audiences on a public and virtual stage, for numerous events and festivals and to high profile clients such as YouTube, BBC Studios and The British Library. As an animator at XR Games, she worked on the released VR game titles; Angry Birds Movie 2 VR: Under Pressure and Zombieland VR. Since 2015, Rosie has made it her mission to shout about the power of virtual and augmented technologies, speaking and leading masterclasses and workshops at prestigious festivals to sell out crowds, onboarding hundreds of people into VR, spreading the magic of this powerful medium to the masses.

Barney Kass is an artist and designer based in London. His work often involves designing systems as a compositional tool to interweave narrative, interaction and information into installations, sound design and music. With a background in music and multichannel audio, he is passionate about how sound can be used to form experience from sonic weaponry to neuroscience.

Barney has lectured at the Royal College of Art and run workshops across University Arts London. He was a sound designer for BAFTA-nominated short film MY DAD'S NAME WAS HUW. HE WAS AN ALCOHOLIC POET whilst also displaying his work in South Kiosk Gallery, The Royal Academy of Art and the Design Museum.

I am in the process of completing my MSc in Virtual and Augmented Reality.
I have an interest in psychology and how we can combine that with XR to enhance our everyday lives alongside creating compelling experiences.
I have over two years of unity experience alongside teaching experience. Completing my MSc has given me an in-depth insight into the many applications of XR technologies and how they work.