Projects
Wonderfull: The Poetic Fortune Teller
Wonderfull: The Poetic Fortune Teller
Exploring ways immersive technology can make a poetic fortune teller machine feel like magic.
Wonderfull: The Poetic Fortune Teller wants to show its audience another way of seeing the world around them.
Tested and prototyped using basic tools of Arduino and conductive ink with wood frame holding the perspex in an 'immersive' space. This project is a small iteration of the bigger ideas of moving people through space using light and dispelling what they thought to be true about the world that they see around them.
Deanna Roger's work is known for its emotional resonance and its ability to address social issues in an accessible yet impactful way. Pushing boundaries of form and content, she explore themes of identity and more recently motherhood, and am preoccupied with how people see the world.
Wonderfull was funded to prototype through a Pervasive Media Studio Winter Residency 2023. Following the three month residency, I shared and tested the prototype at Lyra Bristol's poetry festival 2024 and began the process of positioning me as a poet who works with creative technologies.
This phase of exploration builds on this solid foundation, and will see Wonderfull take the next step towards becoming an audience ready immersive experience.
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£5,000
Aims of the Project
Exploring ways in which the screen can give a realistic image of the real world but change when different parts of it are interacted with.
Areas of focus:
– FullDome technology
– Observing audience participation in immersive experiences. Who and how?
– Perception and magic moments – how real life interacts with controlled but seemingly
– spontaneous variables.
– The voice and identity of my machine
– How immersive technology reflects and illuminates the magic and wonder of the real world.
There are three stages to this funded activity; planning, research and evaluation of immersive tech in relation to my creative practise.
I will organise meetings with established artists working in immersive arts for insights on developing concepts and building immersive work for audiences.
Attend OFFF festival and Sous Dome festival to observe audiences, learn from
creatives and be inspired by international projects.
Build a plan for experimenting with specific technologies which feel right for this idea.
Develop my confidence and public profile as a poet working with creative technologies
Document and share insights and milestones from this process to build an
audience for this work.
Following this period of activity, I will have acquired the tools; insight, knowledge and connections necessary to apply for Experiment funding to assemble a skilled team poised to build this idea using immersive technology.
Meet the artist
Deanna Rodger
Lead artist
she/her
Deanna Rodger is an international poet, performer and facilitator. She featured on The Art That Made Us (BBC1) and her reimagined version of ‘If’ was read by Serena Williams for International Women’s Day (BBC Sport). Her poetry has been welcomed across the world including.; Mexico, Sudan, and Lebanon, and commissions include; Adidas, FIFA, St Paul’s Cathedral, Nationwide, Young Vic, andAmnesty International. She is the recipient of a number of grants and residencies.
Deanna is a Clore Fellow, a Pervasive Media Studio resident working with creative technology and poetry and founder of Who Knows Poetry, a creative facilitation training platform. From London, she lives in Bristol with her three daughters and husband.
