Armelle Mihailescu

Digital Direction (MA)

'Whale Fall' is an immersive and interactive VR experience about plastic pollution in the oceans and its impact on Whales. The audience is invited to pick up trash from the bottom of the ocean, witnessing first hand how their proactive efforts allow the environment to bloom in a naturally beautiful way.

'Turn It Off' is an immersive and Interactive VR experience, takling the light pollution crisis and its impact on migratory birds. Using a mix of traditional handdrawn assets and 3D environments, 'Turn It Off' informs the audience about this largely unknown issue.

'Living Lamps' is an interactive installation, aiming to explore the use of AI to fight solitude amongst elder people. By renovating used lamps and giving them life, 'Living Lamps' creates a bridge between the past and the future, questionning the audience on the place AI has in their life.

'Eternals’ Path' is a game about choices, the ones you made, the ones you regret, and those that will haunt you to your grave, and beyond. The audience is invited to embody a fallen anti-hero, but no merciful rest awaits the character on the other side. Instead, their past comes after them.

About

Armelle Mihailescu is a Multi Media Artist, who’s using video games and interactive/immersive experiences to explore deep themes close to her heart, such as ecology, human relationship with nature and spirituality. After a Bachelor in Graphic Design in France, she worked two years in the video game industry, creating the company Sleepless Paradise with a few collaborators and starting their first project. She then explored storytelling under a different lens and started the Digital Direction course in London at the RCA.

She is part of DeepDive XR, a venture pioneering the creation and distribution of educational extended reality (XR) experiences focused on addressing the urgent climate crisis. DeepDive XR creates experiences made for efficient climate education, having a big impact on young minds and engaging them to be actors for a positive future. DeepDive XR distributes them as workshops in schools to educate the younger generation. DeepDive XR also create bespoke experiences for existing climate actors to spread their message more effectively and intensely to their audiences, ultimately transforming inactive masses into climate allies. Because the DeepDive XR team believes that facts alone don’t inspire change; being an actor in a situation does.

She is also a co-founder of Sleepless Paradise, an indie game studio, developping and commercialising their first game, Eternals’ Path. Eternals’ Path is a rogue-like, turn-based tactical RPG. It’s about choices, the ones you made, the ones you regret, and those that will haunt you to your grave, and beyond. Embody a fallen anti-hero, but no merciful rest awaits your character on the other side. Instead, your past comes after you. Explore a spiritual maze and be faced with those you knew, and who may hold you accountable for their fate.

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