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DARKFIELD presents ARCADE: but this isn’t an ordinary arcade and these are not ordinary arcade machines. Every machine offers you the chance to enter the world of the game and choose your own unique journey. As you guide your avatar through a world ravaged by endless war, there are many routes you can take and there are many different outcomes. You can choose a side, win or lose the war, search out a more peaceful route, or join a cult promising a better version of reality. Where will your decisions lead you?

DARKFIELD presents ARCADE: but this isn’t an ordinary arcade and these are not ordinary arcade machines. Every machine offers you the chance to enter the world of the game and choose your own unique journey. As you guide your avatar through a world ravaged by endless war, there are many routes you can take and there are many different outcomes. You can choose a side, win or lose the war, search out a more peaceful route, or join a cult promising a better version of reality. Where will your decisions lead you?

Then She Fell was a fully immersive, multisensory experience in which only 15 audience members per performance explored a dreamscape where every alcove, corner, and corridor had been transformed into a lushly designed world.

The artworks featured in the performance – together with the pieces brought from the Hungarian National Gallery for this occasion – span nearly 4000 years: visitors will explore almost every collection unit of the museum during their journey.

Urgent and rolling, this 80-minute experience, fuelled with music by Oren Ambarchi and Perila, pieces together value and meaning from the very human ruins of aspiration, history, and language, as it shifts back and forth along a journeyed path between Lausanne and Izmir.

Where immersive theater meets VR. An intriguing multiplayer experience set between two worlds: a jaunty vaudeville stage and the harrowing survival narrative. Uncover the story of a ship stranded in time as supplies dwindle and day-by-day an otherworldly mist rolls closer. Follow characters’ interlocking fates as all journeys forward must turn back or become lost.

Pyra is an award-winning London-based visionary singer-producer, genre-bending “Dystopian Pop” who is here to knock out inequality and challenge the world's most corrupted socio-cultural issues head on. In this live performance on extended reality she presents “her world”

This was an installation style piece performed in Michaelmas 2 2022 in DUPlayers. It was performed in the dressing room in the Players building, the small space being used to represent a small apartment in Dublin. Audience members were immersed completely in the scene as they played characters/people attending an art class in the 'apartment'. The actors directly interacted with the audience members.

Nightmare Time was a series of musical comedy livestreams by LA-based theatre company Starkid Productions. Pre-COVID, they only staged traditional live theatre, but during the pandemic they began this series of three "episodes" that aired in October of 2020. These streams were mostly live, with intermittent songs that were pre-recorded and edited in the style of music videos.

Anandala is a virtual, abstract art installation unconstrained by the limits of reality. Visitors explore through personal flight a vast three-dimensional labyrinth of evolving shapes and colours populated with intelligent artificial-life. These shapeshifting creatures express themselves and interact with visitors and each other through movement, changing color textures, and their own musical language. Anandala invites visitors to interact and connect with a variety of curious, friendly lifeforms and explore their natural habitat.