Reading Time: 7 minutes Ghost Orchid is an immersive audio play which was performed for the first time at Burdall’s Yard in Bath as a shared binaural in-headphone event as part of the Bath Digital Festival fringe 2026. Set in a close-knit rural community in the West of England, the play explores how trauma echoes down the generations of a farming… Read more »
Articles by Rachel Pownall
When the Past Meets the Future
Rachel Pownall
Reading Time: 6 minutes For the last few years I have been experimenting with telling complex, challenging and nuanced historical stories using creative technology. In September 2022, I received a fellowship from Bath Spa University’s Narrative and Emerging Technologies (NET) Lab to explore ways in which to use immersive and emerging technologies to tell stories within some 19th Century… Read more »