NOW TOURING
Love Simulation EVE and Water Spirits have been enjoyed by thousands of people in Finland and abroad. Audiences have described the performance as a “unique”, “holistic”, “dream-like”, and “really touching” experience. In addition to the heart-warming response in Finland, Love Simulation EVE was awarded the “Best VR Experience” in Canada, at the TINFF film festival.
We are now looking for touring partners for both the full-evening performance Love Simulation EVE and the 5-minute encounter Water Spirits. Contact us for bookings and collaboration requests at
Eero Tiainen
Artistic Director, Avatar’s Journey
+358 40 701 1457
eerotiainen@avatarsjourney.com
"What an amazing system! Something completely different - amazing, confusing, clever VR technology - delighted, amazed, surprised, moved."
AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
"Love Simulation Eve was a dreamlike experience. With such a long and immersive piece, the sense of space in virtual reality affected my sense of space for a longer period of time.”
“The performance was one of the finest and most unique art experiences I have had. Thanks also to the whole group for the overall experience, it's not just about VR art but so much more, from the work of the actors to the coronation hall-like but much more comfortable space, to the white coats and the welcome and relevant drinks.”
"The most interesting theatre event of the spring! W O W".
"The biggest attraction of the project is its mystery. The audience doesn't sit in the theatre's auditorium but gets to experience the play with VR glasses on and also influence decisions. The spectator is at the center of the story and gets to experience the performance with the main characters.
PAST DATES
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The VR Art Days tour offers a unique chance to get to see VR Art in various cultural venues around Finland.
The tour will commence in the fall of 2023 and continue during spring 2024. Exhibitions will be held in six different districts. The selected venues represent various kinds of cultural organizations – libraries, cultural centres, art galleries, movie theatres. What they have in common is that VR Art is seldom, if ever, shown in them.
The tour schedule and partners are:
Porvoon kaupunginkirjasto, Porvoo | exhibition open 17.-19.10.2023
Forum Box – Tila Taiteelle, Helsinki | exhibition open 21.-22.10.2023
Elokuvakeskus Botnia, Vaasa | exhibition open 8.-9.12.2023
Kulttuuritalo Villa Rana, Jyväskylä | exhibition open 10.-11.12.2023
Elokuvateatteri Kino Iiris, Lahti | exhibition will tour during Spring 2024
Taiteen talo, Turku | exhibition will tour during Spring 2024
The tour will return to some of the Autumn venues also during Spring 2024.
The programme of the tour consists of three curated VR art works. The duration of the exhibition is around one hour.
Tour programme – Autumn 2023:
Whispers (Jacek Naglowski & Patryk Jordanowicz, Poland, 2020, 21 min)
Love Simulation EVE: Water Spirit (Eero Tiainen, Finland, 2023, 5 min)
Birth of a Bird (Janne Storm, Finland, 2023, 8 min)
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Water Spirits was presented at Kehä Festival both at an open event and at a healthcare institution. In addition to the VR experience, Eero Taiinen offered a workshop on micro-loving encounters.
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Every year, local filmmakers from Toronto and across Canada, USA, and Internationally travel to the beautiful city of Toronto to celebrate diversity through film. TINFF's focus is to excel in creative, independent film direction through innovation, multicultural, and uniqueness that captures the series of movements and experiences in a single film.
EVE Labs brings a touring demo of Love Simulation to the Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival.
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Espoo City Theatre and Team EVE join forces in Revontulihalli to deliver a VR spectacle never previously experienced in Finland.
Love Simulation EVE is a unique and immersive ludonarrative adventure.
First up, an audio drama to be listened to at home. Then, an hour-long immersion using a virtual reality headset. And finally, a finale that will only be revealed to those present in Revontulihalli.
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Music. Assembly. Research. Showbusiness.
The MARS Festival is a professional event for the music and events industry. MARS takes place from 16 to 18 February 2023 at Rytmikorjaamo in Seinäjoki and consists of two days of seminars and a live programme in the evenings.
Water Spirits can be experienced from 12:45 onwards on 16.2. in the cellar floor.
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EMMA’s exhibition – “In search of the present” – explores the complex interactions between art, technology and nature.
Technology is sometimes seen as the opposite of nature and artificial intelligence as a threat to humanity. For the artists of this exhibition, however, technology is foremost an opportunity.
The programme of In Search of the Present has been planned and implemented in cooperation with Aalto University, Espoo City Theatre and Helsinki Festival.
Water Spirits can be experienced in EMMA on Fridays from 17 to 19 o’clock, on Saturdays from 13 to 16 o’clock and on Sundays from 13 to 16 o’clock.
You can sign up with the staff when you arrive.
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The Free City of Games is a free public event taking place in the centre of Kouvola in November, organized as a part of the Capital of Game Art event complex. The Free City of Games, lasting the whole of November (November 3–30, 2022), showcases games and game culture to the public in a versatile way.
Water Spirits can be experienced as part of the event on 29.11. and 30.11.
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Taking place between the 10th and 23rd of November, the 30th edition of the MixBrasil Festival will bring for the first time in Latin America extended reality experiences with LGBTQIA+ themes.
The 30th Mix Brasil Festival presents MIX.XR, an unprecedented section, full of immersive experiences to broaden our understanding of the world and foresee the future of audiovisual.
This year’s MixLab Spcine focuses on these new languages, presenting masterclasses and workshops with international experts in digital arts, virtual reality and transmedia for audiovisual professionals.
Eero Tiainen hosts a masterclass and presents Water Spirits as part of the MixLab.
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This year, the Aalto Aesthetics event was expanding into virtual reality.
Taking place on the last weekend in October, Aalto Aesthetics is an annual free event that harnesses Seinäjoki's stately Aalto Centre, which cherishes the traditions of functionalist architecture, as a versatile and sensory-tickling event arena. The event combined light and shadow, architecture and music to create an experience. This year, virtual reality offered the public the opportunity to dive into the virtual water world, where they could share a moment with a familiar or unknown person and let the joy flow.
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A taste of things to come.