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MyWorld Fellowship in residence at Aardman: Mixed Reality Interaction- Enabling tactile interaction with a digital world
Closing Date: Fri 27 September, 10:00 BST
An opportunity to spend six months on a Fellowship with multi-award-winning independent studio Aardman. This is a practical Fellowship where you will explore methods for how creatives, who are used to working within a stop motion context, can best apply their craft to a digital production space.
Aardman will create a mixed reality production unit where physical and digital assets can be used interchangeably; the physical world extended with, and driving the digital.
You will be working on a research and development project aimed at evaluating and harnessing virtual production technology to enhance the creative processes across the production floor.
Who is the Fellowship for?
Our MyWorld Fellowships are aimed at freelancers, practitioners, industry, and academics. We invite people to think about these Fellowships as a period of collaborative thinking and experimentation, applying practice, expertise or relevant experience.
The Fellow will be contracted and paid via the University of Bristol but supported by Watershed. Day-to-day the Fellow will become a valued member of the Virtual Production at Model Scale team, a research & development project on the production floor at Aardman. You will be supported by their core team and a fellow researcher at UWE Bristol. You will also have access to creatives across the production pipeline to drive meaningful outcomes.
'We are excited to collaborate with an innovate fellow on this research and development project at Aardman' Georgia Hope, R&D and Technology Project Manager at Aardman
This Fellowship is part of the MyWorld IDEAS programme, funded by UKRI. Read more about MyWorld.
How to apply
- You are invited to answer five questions on an online form focusing on how you meet the criteria for the Fellowship in residence and eligibility.
- Shortlisted applicants will then be invited to interview with members of the MyWorld partnership, Aardman as well as representatives from Watershed.
MyWorld believe our work will be stronger with greater diversity and welcome applications from those who are currently underrepresented in the culture, technology and higher education sectors. We understand that each of us brings our experiences, our backgrounds and our own unique lens to what we do so no one is expected to represent any specific groups.
Find out everything you need to know about the theme, the opportunity, the application process, timeline and FAQs below:
Fellowship in Residence Brief [Large Print]
Closing Date: Fri 27 September, 10:00 BST