The Soma Project explores the concept of ‘somatic agency’ – our experience of and capacity to sense and feel our living and moving bodies, highlighting the perception gap between seeing and feeling through the use of VR technologies. Led by dance artist and researcher Lisa May Thomas, The Soma Project spans: participatory performance experience SomaVR, research initiatives, audio-visual and photographic exhibitions, professional talks and workshops which offer insight and explorations into dance, the se
“I think the thing that has stayed with me the most was that was a lot of very bold, unusual, experimental, multisensory, hypersensitive, extraordinary, ground-breaking work, like all in one go. It felt quite exceptional.”
“To actually to be able to visually see this kind of movement and this depth of this object in space and then to be able to manipulate and see it coming towards and away from me and around me, I just thought that was amazing.”
In-Body – Exploring bodies, materiality and touch in multi-person virtual reality.
May Productions
Tom Mitchell - computer scientist and creative technologist
Soma – Exploring bodies, materiality and touch in multi-person virtual reality.