NewImages Hub Offers Paris Full Time XR Lab
variety.comBen Croll Paris’ NewImages Festival and parent organization Forum des Images have recently launched NewImages Hub, a support network offering XR professionals a set of complementary creative and mentoring programs throughout the year.
Divided into three poles, the new lab will help immersive projects across development, production, and distribution, offering residencies and networking assistance at each phase.
Administered by Forum des Images – a non-profit cultural organization subsidized by the City of Paris – and supported by France’s CNC, NewImages Hub will oversee international writing residencies both in Paris and abroad, while developing additional workshops with partners in Taiwan, Chile and South Africa.
The new lab will also administer existing programs in Rome, Ecuador and Taipei, while making industry analysis available to all. “We want to help with questions of distribution at an earlier point,” says Forum des Images digital chief (and NewImages festival director) Michele Ziegler. “The big installations are becoming so expensive, so how does [an artist] break their project down into different versions?
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