artsXR is an immersive production studio, by artists, designers and co-founders:
Kristina Thiele, Alejandro Escobar and Chris Follows.
We are a designer artist trio, based in London UK specialising in creating immersive webXR environments, each with 2 decades of experience in the creative industry.
Kristina, Alejandro and Chris met in 2016 at UAL Chelsea College of Arts through the Digital Maker Collective (DMC), an informal creative tech Research and Development network.
Arts XR is an immersive production studio working at the intersection of art, fashion and technology. Primarily started as a company to enable artists and clients to realise and build metaverse worlds, it soon transpired that the scope had to be widened to include crypto, nfts and web3 . ArtsXR consults artists, innovative businesses and galleries to pass the threshold of crypto and transform analogue creative processes to be compatible with digital on chain technology. Furthermore, as educators artsXR strives to broaden knowledge exchange between art and technology to bridge the intersection.
Through their work with the DMC and Tate Exchange artsXR discovered that there is an increasing demand from creatives for ‘Immersive Solutions for the Arts’, as most content creators are not coming from an arts background. Being artists and designers themselves, all three co founders know how important it is to challenge existing aesthetic parameters set by developers outside the artistic context in creating a visual language embraced by artists and technologists equally.
artsXR offer bespoke creative solutions for the arts, XR content production across all immersive workflows, from pre-production to full conception, consultancy, planning and delivery.
Spatial Designer, VR immersive experience creative with a background in photography. Intrigued by digital innovation, pushing technological boundaries in the field of spatial design, bringing it to the 21st century.
Currently focussed on challenging the audio-visual language of the Immersive Web and VR in general to gain new perspectives on the aesthetics and nature of immersive content. Interested in pushing artsXR’s key strategic objective to engage with global cultural arts organisations, museums and institutions developing projects which challenge geographical, financial and political barriers especially in testing pandemic times post 2020. As well as consulting arts and fashion clients on clean NFT and the emerging cryptoart market within the metaverse.
Audiovisual artist and VR/AR developer, Interested about exploring the boundary between physical and digital worlds.
In his practice he uses a broad array of techniques going from traditional media such as painting, sculpture and photography to digital techniques such as 3D modelling/animation and photogrammetry.
Artist and co-founder of artsXR, an immersive production studio. Emerging Technologies lead at University of the Arts London (UAL), exploring the integration of new technologies into arts practice, including design, performance and art. Chris established the Digital Maker Collective in 2016 and was invited to be a Tate Exchange associate in 2017, where he curated several large-scale creative tech events, over four years at Tate Modern and Tate Britain.
Chris has Mesh Paintings in corporate and private collections and has exhibited at the National Maritime Museum and Cork Street, London. Chris's digital mesh paintings can be found in web3 collections across multiple blockchains, his digital works have been exhibited at NFT Paris, Feb 2023, Beeple studio in Charleston, SC, Sept 2023 and will be shown at NFT NYC, April 2024.
https://www.chrisfollows.com/