In this first episode our Video Podcast, Dr Tessa Ratuszynska spoke to Cardiff and Bradford-based theatre company Common/Wealth who discussed their part play, part punk gig, part sensory experience Demand the Impossible. The podcast brings artists and projects into dialogue with one another in a way that we hope will be engaging and accessible and maybe a little bit immersive. It is for artists, makers and anyone who’s interested in learning more about projects funded through the Immersive Arts programme.
IMMERSIVE ARTS
Explore the creative potential of immersive arts through a groundbreaking UK-wide programme.
Joining the Dots
This UK-wide map of immersive production facilities is a free-to-access resource that supports creatives to find out what kinds of facilities are available; where they are, what they offer in terms of technology and support and detailed information about the accessibility of the spaces.
Funded Projects
See all projectsCarbon Women
Tongue & Groove
Tudo Está Queimando (Everything is Burning)
MA
A shifting state of forms
Beyond the Beams
Interwoven – Audio Textile Installation
Immersive VR Journaling Prototype
Strandfall
Car Boot Soul
/Imagine Farewell Station
BARRIO: An Immersive Theatre-Club Experience
Making Worlds
Kow
HARVEST
Soft Sirens
Immersed In Minds of Makers
Hydor
Lingua Emergent
Exploring spatial audio for games
Prophecies from a Break-room
The Distance Between Beats Is The Only Distance Between Us
Open to Stay
Audiovisual Percussion in Immersive Performance
Exploring Unity for narrative-driven MR
Echoes of Remembrance
Human Harmonics
Creating responsive art and space
What Do I Sound Like?
Algorithmic Landscapes, Augmenting Experience
Silent Soil
Wish You Were Here.
Disability and Daily Art Practice
Addiction, Intimacy and Immersive Technologies
Clwb
Mixing Realities: Developing digital environments for performance and community settings
Immersive Technology in Underwater Dance
Breathe: Sound and Stillness
Imprints of River Colne
Becoming
Light Up
Green Dark
Tirwedd (Landscape)
Terrain / At the Edge of Us
Enter The Tempest
Intercept: Cornwall’s Hidden History
Hall of Hushes
Creating sensory environments
Enter the Cheesegrater
Immersive Ancient Performance Venue Experience
VR Surrealist sketching and asset creation
Exploring Immersive Storytelling Pathways
Morphogenic Angels: Chapter 2 (Alchemy of Perspectives)
Going Beyond Sound
Moving Pictures: Exploring ways of combining dance, animation, and VR
The Poppitech Exception
Algorithmic Cinema
Symphony Sensoria: Inner sensory landscapes of a Neurodivergent mind.
Dissolving Time Through 360° Video
PILGRIMS
The Surface of Things
Wild Wings of Hope
Synapse
Good Enough: Multisensory Queer Storytelling in Scotland.
You’re An Animal
Immersive Listening, Responsive Frequencies
Sonic Obscura
The Afanc: An Interactive Folklore Experiment
Virtual Architecture of Empathy II – Love Moveth from the Periphery to the Centre
Exploring Augmented Reality: Portals Within the Painting
Clowning in Virtual Reality
People Who You May Know
Between Dimensions.
Jazz Maze VR
Spring Simulator
Embodying Liberated Landscapes
Boa Island Immersive Film
Civil Signals: Finding Resonance in Noise
UN/VEIL
Inclusive Participation: Meaningful Real-time Co-Creation
Listening for the New Dawn
Immersive Sound in Community Spaces
THE RESISTANCE PROJECT
The Space Between
All Cats are Muslim
Creating While Caring
Join the Myco Revolution
Memories of the Future
Immersive Explorations || Fungal Networks
Peter and the Wolf AR (PAW)
The Game
Hag/Gwrach
Immersive SEND Digital Soundscape Lab
Learning Skills. Exploring Potential.
Small Wide World
Murals and tech
Amorphous: Playing With Reality
Sites of Memory
File Regions
Sound and Fury
Man of Arran
MyPace: Sensory‑Interactive (Non‑Toxic) Seating design
Photo//Synthesis
Pattern and Place
Echoes of Folkestone
BENEFITS QUEST (R&D/DEMO MODE)
The Shape of Grief -VR
Becoming a Monster
The Magic Paintbrush
Deathbed Convert – Immersive Field XR Audio Trail
Broad Haven Triangle / Triongl Aberllydan
Charged Encounter
Limehouse Déjà Vu
Animation within live environments
Sensory Circus Research
Virgo Multiverse
Pixel Puppets
Thenix Sound Foundation
The Nerve of It
In conversation with soil
Otherworldly Fashion
Two Truths: Fractured Realities
Tango with AI
Laugh Out Loud LOL
Exploring the possibilities of Immersive Arts to communicate History and Heritage
Immersive Inclusion
Building Dynamic Sound-worlds
Inside the Unreal
Reactive Determinism
Conduct the Dome: An Immersive Movement Project
The Five of Us
Intelligent Holograms
Triongl Aberllydan / Broad Haven Triangle
The Land Will Haunt
The Bees – Mixed Reality Adaptation
Responsive Simulations
By Leaves We Live. When Morris Met Geddes
Cycle
Immersive Storyboarding for Animation Futures
Surrounded and Immersed
Thenix Sound Foundation (Explore)
Beat Blocks
Sound and Fury (Experiment)
The Air Loom – A Spatial-audio Codebreaking Adventure
Awareness
The Kids are Halal
Hidden Realities
Mary Edmonia Lewis: a lost portrait bust re-imagined
Site-specific audio development
Understanding (Im)Possibilities
XR Technology in Shakespeare performance
Embodied Stories/Flexible Narratives
13 Ghosts
The Scattered Figures of our Shadow Selves: An AR Illustration Trail
Immersive Arts for Mental Health
Embarking on Immersive Arts
The Armagh Rhymers
Incorporating immersive audio into a collaborative project for live art
Syzygy
Black Shuck
Emancipating XR Practice
Becoming (Experiment)
Lough Neagh Project
The Invisible Dance
The Burning Ballgown
The Hum
Cognitive Realities: Merging Neuroscience & Immersive Art
These Stories We Tell
Liminalities
The KVB – Deep End
Surrender(d)
Explorative learning journey through Immersive Arts technologies
Exploring MR and the impact on perception and imagination in immersive media
Stories in Stone – Connecting People and Place
Sweet Meat
Where the House of Connections meets the House of Dreams
Exploring human and empathic engagement in immersive technologies
Energetic Connections: Exploring the multi-dimensional self through art & sound
Cats Eyes
Hermaphrogenesis
Expanded Realities
Exploring the use of modern technologies to help create new audiences for Opera
Sensory Symphony: Embracing Neurodiverse sensory perception through Immersive Art
Material Memories
Release – unlocking the silences relating to contested statuary
swarm
Built Bodies (Inside)
To gain knowledge on immersive art and explore how it can be more integrated into my practice
Lost and Found in the Forest
Realising JazzWitch
The Baby Factory Is Closed
Active Minutes
Immig-rant: Immersive Journeys Through Identity and Belonging
Beyond the Ordinary
Paradise Unseen
The Bestial Room
Immersive Verse
Hyperspace 403
On the Other Side
Bridging Connections: R&D for an Immersive Arts Food Experience
Seeing Sense: Sensory Sensors
Wonderfull: The Poetic Fortune Teller
ANA – Active Noise Augmentation
Future ecologies: exploring multisensory, extended reality landscapes
Secrets
Immersive Dartmoor Folktales
I would be here if I could
Voiced In Open Air
Be the Players Ready
Fragments of Perception: An Autistic Odyssey
Accept The Cookies
Lost Communications: Underwater
Who am I? Pwy i fi?
Phanto Spectra
Regina Caeli
No Silence, No Saints
I & AI: Co-Authoring Identity in the Mirror Realm
Fear City Paradise
We Live In An Old Chaos Of The Sun
See Me Appear
SUBMERSE
Breathscapes
The Whale
Research
Immersive Arts is an arts and artist-led research project. Research is embedded across the entire programme of events, training, mentoring and grant funding. Research helps us to better understand the circumstances of artists looking to engage with immersive technologies right now.
Our research falls into three areas:
- Infrastructure & Ecosystem
- Immersive Tools & Technologies
- Artists & Audience Development
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News
See all newsThe Big Thing 2026
Immersive Arts announces £8.5m second phase funding
UK-wide map of immersive production facilities
Joining the Dots
Immersive Highlights: July – Sept 2026
The Big Thing Returns, this time to Llandudno
Help us produce a UK-wide map of immersive production facilities
Immersive Highlights: April – June 2026
More than 140 UK projects receive over £2m in Second Funding Round
Immersive Arts Goes to SXSW
The Whale, Up Close: A First Look
Frameless Premieres The Whale
Immersive Arts Funding Update
Immersive Highlights: January to March 2026
Immersive Highlights this Season
First Report: Early days of the immersive exhibition network
The Final Round of Immersive Arts Funding Is Now Open
We’re recruiting! Producer: North of England
Updates on the next funding round – opening July 2025
The Big Thing 2025
First Round Commentary
The Big Thing, our Landmark Event comes to Bradford
Over 80 UK Projects Receive Nearly £1.2m in First Funding Round
Reflections on Immersive Arts Deadline – Round 1
Why UWE Bristol is championing immersive arts as a 21st Century Artform
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£6mil UK-wide programme
