Brain Candy offers an innovative virtual reality experience that uses rhythmic light patterns to potentially influence brainwaves, aiming to enhance relaxation, focus, and awareness. This app for Meta Quest combines cutting-edge technology with scientific concepts of brainwave entrainment, offering users a unique and stimulating cognitive journey.

This ceramic ‘Children of Nature’ installation merges earth, human, animal, plant and fungi together to create a magical environment of a fired clay Fairy Ring. 'Mushrooms and clay are ancient friends, both materials can be powerful teachers.' This is an installation about a healing shift in consciousness. Psychedelic plant medicine is fast becoming an option for previously incurable phycological disorders. This installation explores the use and magic of this incredible life-form."

Cosmic Sugar is a trance inducing physics sandbox. It can be used for art making and light shows. Cosmic Sugar visualizes natural forces in a way that is similar to sand grains on metal surfaces revealing hidden cymatics. It is a relaxing and engaging universe which responds in completely unique ways to the personalities and interactions of each individual artist.

An immersive interactive installation synthesing technology, art and wellbeing. Using custom wearable sensors, the participant's breathing is visualised in light. The design encourages breathing through the diaphragm which activates the parasympathetic nervous system, improving physical, emotional and cognitive states. Deep Sym offers a fun and relaxing space to connect to yourself and others, each light object allowing up to 4 people at a time. When breaths are in sync the lighting colour changes to rainbows!

"Deeply Felt: Threads of Consciousness" wool installation illuminates the entangled landscapes of the Universe. It invites audience into a realm where the tactile meets the transcendent. Each strand of felt represents a thread in the infinite web of existence, mirroring the neural pathways of the expanded states of the mind. Step into this immersive space to palpably “feel” your role in the shared tapestry of consciousness.

Immerse yourself in a sumptuous geometric universe as you float through the mesmerising and infinite domain of 3D fractals.

Streaming math inspired art

An interactive installation designed to challenge your perception. By engaging with it, you shape its response, just as your mind shapes reality itself. Question “How real is reality?”

Immerse yourself in the fluidity of existence as a prismatic swarm of particles, playfully dissolving and reassembling avatar embodiment.

Mezmer is a unique audio-visual experience. An alternative entertainment option for enjoying music in VR. Escape, unwind and let your mind wander as "Mezmers" respond dynamically in real-time to the music/audio playing.

Microdose is software that combines art, music and dance into a real-time virtual experience, defining a new medium of artistic expression never before possible.

Calm your mind and drift away in soothing experiences with unique moods and atmospheres. The application combines cinematic visuals with interactive elements for breathing, mindful listening, humming, frequency entrainment and playfulness. Experience the infinite Realms of Flow!

**Soul Paint is a multi-award winning virtual reality experience by Sarah Ticho & Niki Smit, backed by behavioural scientists and researchers. Narrated by Rosario Dawson, this experience asks you the question: ‘Where are you feeling?’** **By combining 3D drawing, playful embodied interaction and personal introspection, you create an expressive virtual reality artwork about your own emotions and embodied sensations. You are invited to reveal your own unique inner reality and then observe the creations of others.** **This experience encourages new forms of embodied insight, allowing us to reflect on the diversity of human experience on an individual and global level.**

Step into SQUINGLE, a psychedelic VR puzzle game that provides brain candy for the soul. Guide revolving orbs through dazzling, otherworldly iridescent 3D mazes, discover enigmatic secrets, and encounter Squingle, a DMT-inspired goddess, on a mystical journey of transcendence. SQUINGLE is crafted to be intuitively played while tripping, weaving together awe-inspiring visuals and Zen-like quotes. Born of the psychedelic experience, the levels were designed from within VR while on psychedelics, imparting a 'contact high' as you flow in sync with the original tripper's movements. Immerse yourself in SQUINGLE and ride the waves of cosmic evolution!

Star-Stuff is an immersive experience created to remind immersants of their fundamental connection to humanity and the Universe. This VR artwork brings two random immersants together remotely to give a new perspective on themselves, humanity, and the Universe. Floating in space, your hands are transformed into a myriad of constellations while stars emanate from your heart, orbiting your body in a mesmerizing cosmic dance. Moving and playing with the stars, you form a galaxy unique to you and your movement. Time seems to stand still as eons flash by in this meditative experience. Another person joins the experience, flickering into view in the form of another constellation. The gravitational effects of your bodies guide the stars, forming a collaborative and dynamic sculpture in space as you play and dance together. In Star-Stuff, looking to the stars allows us to see deeper inward, to be a way for the Universe to know itself.

Synedelica is a synesthetic mixed reality experience where visuals of the real world are modulated by sound, rekindling childlike wonder and encouraging exploration. This application for Meta Quest 1,2, or 3 takes in the sounds from your surroundings and alters the visual experience in response. You can see music alter your living room, or take it outside to see how the sounds of nature mediate your visual experience. For example, see waves crashing ashore as they are brought to life by their own sound, or walk on a forest trail, watching as your footsteps trigger bursts of light in the trees around you.

The neurostimulator Lucia N°03 leads you into an altered state of consciousness, quickly, legally, without substances. Linger in the careless beauty of the eternal now. Experienced light travellers can enjoy a longer session, whilst newcomers will be introduced to a world of unexpectedly beautiful and colourful visions, the like of which they might never have experienced (sober) before.

From a shared love of weaving, knitting and felting — an ever-repatterning appreciation of how intricately material-making can (in)fuse with the context it’s being made in — unspools this wooly concept: An interactive construction BCommuKNITy project which will be open throughout the conference. Visit us anytime to weave the threads you’re following at BC into an ever-diversifying collective tapestry of ideas, felt-senses and immersive crafting. (Materials provided.)

Journey with the power of VR and your intention... to the imaginal realm of the Tarot archetypes! The cards have a message for you, but you must go alone… no Tarot readers needed here... The Tarot Experience VR is a unique ‘second person’ VR experience that asks you to bring yourself into the game. Powered by a unique True Random Number Generator, The Tarot Experience VR is connected to nature, your nature, and brings a whole new level of interactivity to VR. This is the future of storytelling in VR. This is not roleplay... this is you! An encounter with the Tarot images and their message is an encounter with yourself, and the message of the Tarot is this... you are on a heroic and sometimes crazy journey to know who you really are! The Tarot’s goal… is to point us towards the highest version of ourselves. The stories of your past, present and future are not fixed, they can be changed. The future is a creative act! Use the wisdom of The Tarot Experience VR to guide you!

Step into The Wormhole – a light-reactive installation that reveals hidden dimensions as colours shift. Using custom lighting and layered visuals, this piece invites you to explore perception, illusion, and transformation.

A monumental six hour live and expanded version of Vincent Moon's Live Cinéma at Roborough Studios. Drop in and drop out or stay all day if you want to! Vincent Moon is an independent French filmmaker and intrepid explorer who made a name for himself as a music video director for indie bands like R.E.M. and The National. Over the past twenty years he has been traveling the world making films that probe the boundaries between cinema, documentary and ethnographic musical research. With his live-cinema Vincent Moon presents a collage of experiences drawn from his personal archive Petites Planètes, a series of over a thousand films capturing the essence of traditional trance based ceremonies, ecstatic rituals and sacred music from around the world. Each performance is unique with Moon acting as a mesmerised medium summoning images and sounds woven from a stream of memories, his camera moves intimately among the celebrants he shares these experiences with. This is ritual cinema, where Moon transforms the projection hall into a visceral, body shaking spiritual ceremony, where he is not a spectator, and neither are we.

The Viscereality Project innovatively combines breathwork and virtual reality to induce altered states of consciousness. At its core is a bio-responsive VR application that dynamically adapts to users' breathing patterns. This approach aims to couple interoception (internal bodily awareness) with exteroception (perception of the external world) by synchronizing immersive virtual environments with breathing techniques such as circular breathing and hyperventilation. By blurring the boundaries between internal physiological states and external virtual contexts, the project seeks to facilitate a dissolution of the sense of self - a key characteristic of altered states. This novel method explores how the interplay of bodily sensations and responsive digital environments can influence consciousness, potentially offering new insights into subjective experiences and opening avenues for therapeutic applications in mental health.