Ever want to speak to an android from the future? We recently held our second annual Festival of the Impossible (FOI), a three day event celebrating immersive artists who are pushing past the boundaries of reality to bring “impossible” creative visions to life. This year’s theme – Human-Machine – explored how immersive media is ushering us into a new era of co-creation and storytelling.

FOI features a curated collection of six artists who are creating across many immersive mediums including 3D and augmented reality (AR), to explore new avenues of creative storytelling by inspiring and engaging us with their visions.

“Immersive media is allowing us to experience both depth of expression and depth of emotion,” says Stefano Corazza, VP and Head of Augmented Reality at Adobe and the festival’s founder. “It can feel as natural as the real world, but it can also project us into this whimsical, dreamy world, that goes beyond reality.”

Stefano has been on the front lines of AR for years, including his work developing technology for 3D character animation as the former CEO and co-founder of Mixamo (acquired by Adobe in 2015) and leading strategy for Project Aero, Adobe’s new AR authoring tool for immersive experiences (currently in private beta).

This exciting new era of breakthrough experiences where the physical and digital worlds are merging is allowing us to bring this immersive content into the real world. Speak to an android from the future, witness a plant grow before your eyes after being “fed” by social media interactions; get swaddled in a compression carpet – and be inspired! See the science of tech and the art of creativity converge through “impossible” art exhibitions and how it’s changing the way we interact with the world, how we work and play. Read on to learn more about the artists and this year’s boundary pushing work at Festival of the Impossible:

Source: https://theblog.adobe.com/immersive-art-installations-festival-of-the-impossible/