Name: Virtual Reality as Empathy Machine
Start: 2019-10-03T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2019-10-05T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Ryerson Library Collaboratory (access via 3rd Floor, LIB/SLC)

Virtual Reality as Empathy Machine

The Jack Layton Chair seeks to advance Jack’s legacy of humanitarian leadership by promoting progressive social change and strengthening political capacity at Ryerson University. The Chair aims to help students to explore their sense of engagement in justice issues. The Chair is a collaborative partnership between the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Community Services.

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<H2 CLASS="MsoNormal">Explore the social, cultural, and philosophical effects of virtual reality with VR creators!</H2>
Please note, the morning session is an unticketed drop-in event. Registration is necessary for the afternoon session. Both sessions are free of charge.
This event is wheelchair accessible. For questions and other accessibility accommodations, please contact laytonchair@ryerson.ca.
 
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<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal">MORNING SESSION (10am - 12pm): VR Immersive Experience</H3>
All are welcome to drop-in and try a VR station!
 Five creators are bringing their VR experiences to the Library Collaboratory courtesy of the Jack Layton Chair - come and immerse yourself in work by Le Sensorium, Oya Media Group, SpekWork, THIRTEENTH FLOOR , Axia Design & FCAD, and OC•CU•PIED.
 
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<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal">AFTERNOON SESSION (1pm - 4pm): Panel moderated by Ken Moffatt, Jack Layton Chair</H3>
Registration is necessary. 
Virtual reality (VR) has been promoted as a means to heighten empathy. In fact, it has been coined by some to be the empathy machine. It has been argued that the sharp focus it provides on an image or topic, and the immediacy of imagery and contact, serve to heighten empathy. At this seminar we will critically analyze the interplay between the social and the creative with VR. While acknowledging the exciting aesthetic and social potential of VR, we will explore its social, cultural, and philosophical affects.
 
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<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal">VR Creator Bios and VR Descriptions</H3>
<A HREF="http://www.lesensorium.com%20" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Le Sensorium</A> | Natalie Doonan takes an ethnographic/ historical approach with a work focused on the Montreal waterfront as a feral urban site.
<A HREF="https://oyamediagroup.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Oya Media Group</A> | Ngardy George Conteh and Alison Duke's immersive VR experience documents the recovery efforts in Barbuda after the hurricane with a focus on inequitable development.
<A HREF="http://spek.work" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">SpekWork</A> | Cat Bluemke, Ben McCarthy and Jonathan Carrol take an art based/ethnographic approach with a work focused on precarious labour and capitalism.
<A HREF="http://www.thirteenthfloorcorp.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">THIRTEENTH FLOOR</A> and <A HREF="http://www.axiadesign.ca/studio/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Axia Design</A> & FCAD | Tae Joe and Taymoore Balbaa's piece “Adaptive City VR” uses immersive technology as a means to narrate contested residual spaces in a rapidly developing city, and the role they play for everyone from the homeless to the elite.
<A HREF="http://occupiedvr.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">OC</A><A HREF="http://occupiedvr.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">•CU•PIED</A> |  J Lee Williams and Timur Musabay take a game-based/historical/ ethnographic approach with a work that explores the contested nature and troubled history of Jerusalem as a spiritual epicenter.

Ryerson Library Collaboratory (access via 3rd Floor, LIB/SLC)

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