Faust Shop: New Lands
Live performance with virtual sets and motion-capture dancers at Sook, Grafton Centre, Cambridge…
Kirk is a pioneer of immersive media, creating immersive experiences and performances as a way of exploring ideas, technologies and cultures.
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Immersive, Interactive, and Emergent
Jinn-Ginnaye is a practice research project developed alongside and beyond the live Choreomusical performance, Jinn. It consists of a collection of connected, but discrete pieces exploring…
Jinn-Ginnaye: Palmyra2024–present
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Explorations
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Photuria
An immersive piece addressing climate change and loss of biodiversity in the United States through a crime-fiction narrative exploring the disappearance of…
vRSP: virtually (Re)Sounding Place
The vRSP project explores new, responsive, immersive, and interactive methods of experiencing a performance, as well as allowing users to explore the…
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Norwich University of the Arts and Saxon Air Flight Support Limited AKT6
This AKT will prove the viability and requirements for virtual ground crew training, developing the first immersive VR platform for aircraft marshalling…
Green Walks
The Green Walks project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and US National Academy of Medicine, aimed to encourage people…
Photuria
An immersive piece addressing climate change and loss of biodiversity in the United States through a crime-fiction narrative exploring the disappearance of…
This AKT will prove the viability and requirements for virtual ground crew training, developing the first immersive VR platform for aircraft marshalling and related airside activities…
Norwich University of the Arts and Saxon Air Flight Support Limited AKT62026–2027
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Green Walks
The Green Walks project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and US National Academy of Medicine, aimed to encourage people…
vRSP: virtually (Re)Sounding Place
The vRSP project explores new, responsive, immersive, and interactive methods of experiencing a performance, as well as allowing users to explore the…
Mobstar
a real-time multi-player online game based on the world of the mafia. Players begin as lowly thugs, doing drug runs and climb…
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Publications
2026
Journal article
Green Walking: Artful Technologies for Natural Connection
Leonardo, MIT Press, 2026; 59 (1): 66–71
2026
Journal article
XR body illusion for managing pain in fibromyalgia: examining optimal duration
Virtual Reality, Springer Nature, 30, 54 (2026)
2020
Conference proceedings
Demystifying Interdisciplinary Working
Valuing Nature Papers, VNP25, Valuing Nature, Royal Society, London
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About
Kirk Woolford (PhD Surrey, MS Design ID@IIT) is Professor of Immersive Arts and Technologies and founding director of the Institute for Creative Technologies at Norwich University of the Arts.
Kirk is a pioneer of immersive media, creating immersive experiences and performances as a way of exploring ideas, technologies and cultures. His creative work has been shown at venues including the Venice Biennale, Art Cologne, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, ISEA and SIGGRAPH.
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