Ben Croll When planning this year’s festivities, the team at NewImages Festival – which celebrates XR in all its diversity – did not want to sit on their hands, waiting for the public to find them.“We don’t want to hold any old event,” says festival director Michaël Swierczynski. “We want to fully occupy the space [around us] in order to exhibit these pieces to the public.
To do so, we must go out and find people where they already are.”In practical terms, that meant moving events outside the four walls of the Forum des Images – a media complex located in Paris’ Les Halles complex, the festival’s traditional home – and into the massive commercial and transportation hub around them. “[The festival is located in a complex next to] the most.
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