Research Week 25
Thursday, 24 April 2025

As part of Research Week '25 we explore how art and music are transformed through mixed reality (MR) and ways of accessing cultural experiences beyond physical limitations.


Date and time
Fri, 2 May 2025 11:15 - 12:30 GMT+1

Location
Engineering Research Building and Millsteam Courtyard
ERB001 University of Limerick Limerick
 

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About this event

XTREME is an EU Horizon Europe-funded project aiming to transform how art and music are experienced through mixed reality (MR). Led by the IT University of Copenhagen and involving 14 European partners, it explores new ways of accessing cultural and artistic experiences beyond physical limitations.

The project develops a human-centered and ethically informed MR solution that enables users to experience concerts and performances remotely in their living room with other remote participants. The XTREME solution creates new fusions of real and virtual content for shared immersive engagement.

The University of Limerick Living Lab (ULLL) is the central hub of the project fusing technological, creative and social innovation. The ULLL will create innovative Governance and ethical frameworks for XTREME and broader Extended Reality, AI and MR innovation.

The ULLL also comprises of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Both will provide creative content and artistic support to the project. The ULLL will validate the final XTREME prototypes and will also work with the Finish National Opera and Ballet and the Munch Museum. The ULLL plays a key role in technology governance and ethics and in validating the XTREME prototype across three high value global first case studies over the next two years:

1. MR and Therapeutic Benefits: investigating the potential of mixed reality to support social inclusion and meaningful participation of people with dementia and their family carers, informed by music therapy perspectives.

2. MR and Community: investigating the potential of mixed reality to support social inclusion and meaningful participation of people in a community music setting.

3. MR and Socially Complex Issues: Evaluating MR’s potential for immersive, high-fidelity experiences addressing complex social questions.

 

Panel members

Dr Ruhi Anand, XTREME Project Post doc, KBS, UL

Tanaka Gandidzanwa, XTREME PhD Researcher, KBS, UL

Gerard Keenan, CEO, Irish Chamber Orchestra

Prof Raymond Friel, Director of the International Commercial and Economic Law Research Group, School of Law, UL

Dr Paul Tennent, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, Nottingham University

This event may be recorded for future promotional use by University of Limerick.

 

All venues are wheelchair accessible but should you have any specific accessibility queries, please contact us at: Research@ul.ie