Daniel Bacchus
Digital Artist


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Bovidae  - ‘Clappands’ XR Drum Playthrough

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I Look For Them
Life is Beautiful. Always.

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Bovidae - ‘How Can She Slap’
Ben Ottewell - ‘Rattlebag’
Bovidae - ‘Massive Weird Nun’
Bovidae - ‘Bees (Lockdown Mix)’ Visualiser
Napalm Death - ‘On The Brink of Extinction’

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I am a digital artist with a professional background in immersive technologies (VR/AR/XR), music, animation and interactive design. My recent practice has developed through a PhD that explores the ethics of representation and engagement with real-life experiences in VR. I continue to explore these themes through the production of immersive narrative experiences and games design. I am currently developing immersive artworks that explore data-representations of the body and natural environments, investigating how immersive technologies can invite embodied engagements the with emergent and processual interrelationships between our bodies, our experiences and the world.

I have developed digital artworks that have been exhibited internationally and gained recognition at internationally recognised festivals and conferences.

PHD

Bacchus, D. (2025). Translating Life Experience into Experiential Narratives Through Designing for Presence in VR [PhD Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University]

EXHIBITIONS

Bacchus, D., Spall, A. (2024). Flow State. [Data-driven, projection mapped installation]. No Bounds Festival 2024 - Exchange Place Studios, Yorkshire Artspace. https://www.artspace.org.uk/articles/no-bounds-flow-state/

Bacchus, D., Green, D., & Schreur, M. (2023). A Thousand Voices. [Virtual Reality, Painting, Photography]. London Art Biennale 2023 - Chelsea Old Town Hall. https://www.londonbiennale.co.uk/2023/a-thousand-voices-vr-explorations-by-liba-collective-at-the-london-art-biennale-2023/

Bacchus, D. (2022). A Thousand Voices. [Virtual Reality, Painting, Photography, Projection]. Arrupe Hall, Mayfair, London.

Bacchus, D., & Wichert, P. (2022). Vestiges of Affective Resonance. [Virtual Reality, Photography]. Sheffield Hallam University.

Bacchus, D., Green, D., & Schreur, M. (2019). Life is Beautiful. Always. [Virtual Reality]. 2nd Blue Cube International Art Festival, Fuyang Gongwang Art Museum, Fuyang, Hangzhou, China

Bacchus, D., Green, D., & Schreur, M. (2019). Life is Beautiful. Always. [Virtual Reality Installation]. London Art Biennale 2019, Chelsea Old Town Hall.

Bacchus, D., Green, D., & Schreur, M. (2018). Life is Beautiful. Always. Anglia Ruskin University. https://www.anglia.ac.uk/community-engagement/cfi2018-life-is-beautiful-always

Bacchus, D., Green, D., & Schreur, M. (2018). Life is Beautiful. Always. VR Exhibition. Grace Unit, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield, S1 2AY. https://www4.shu.ac.uk/sia/events/event-listing-past-events.html?event=295

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Bacchus, D. (2019). Life is Beautiful. Always: Using Virtual Reality to share the experience of disability. In Canterbury Anifest, Canterbury Christ Church University, 8 March 2019 - 9 March 2019.

Bacchus, D. (2018). Articulating a post-human understanding of presence in virtual reality. Virtual System & Multimedia (VSMM) , 2017 23rd International Conference, 91-101. http://doi.org/10.1109/VSMM.2017.8346260

INTERNET PUBLICATIONS

Bacchus, D. (2022). Negotiating Presence and Formulations of The Experiential within Co-Design for Virtual Reality [abstract only]. [Video]. https://cgscholar.com/cg_event/events/X22/proposal/62671

PRESENTATIONS

Bacchus, D., Hecht, A., Nalley, V., & O'Shea, J. (2023). Is Life Just a Game? Presented at: Sheffield Doc Fest, Sheffield