
VR GAMER ARENA
VIRTUAL REALITY AND BEYOND

July 30th 2022
VR FILMS + PRO PANELS
Premiering in Manitoba, the festival presents exclusive VR content, professional round tables, digital art exhibition and local companies and academia presence
SPEAKERS
Local professionals present in round tables and for networking with attendees
![]() Jonathan Lê New Media Manitoba | ![]() Kert Gartner Visual Artist | ![]() Corey King ZenFri |
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![]() Freya Olafson Intermedia Artist | ![]() Lesley Klassen Flipside XR | ![]() Kevin Carbotte Bit Space Development |
![]() Rachael Hosein Flipside XR | ![]() Daniel Blair Bit Space Development |
VR CINEMA
Curated virtual reality content exclusively for the festival
PANELS
Presented by
XYZ
Opening 11:30 am
1pm
THE INTERACTIVE DIGITAL
ECOSYSTEM IN MANITOBA
Moderated by Jonathan Lê
(New Media Manitoba)
Dan Blair (Bit Space Development)
Lesley Klassen (Flipside XR)
Corey King (ZenFri)
This opening discussion presents a landscape of what artists, companies and researchers are creating in the interactive digital media industry with great success in Manitoba
2pm
TECH + ART = MAGIC
Moderated by Emma Hendrix (VideoPool)
Casey Koyczan (interdisciplinary digital artist)
Rachael Hosein (Flipside XR)
Freya Olafson (intermedia artist)
The panel is going to invite the audience to learn about how to create content using interactive digital technology, the artists will share their stories, challenges and will inspire the attendees to create.
3pm
METAVERSE - THE DESERT OF THE REAL
Moderated by
Kevin Carbotte (Bit Space Development)
Kert Gartner (Visual artist)
Tony Havelka (Tek Gear)
This is where the panellists are envisioning the future of interactive digital arts, what is the so-called metaverse? - what does it matter for the community?
4p
5p
Hyper Festival acknowledges that we are gathered on ancestral lands, Treaty 1 territory, traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene Peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation