Panel Guest
some of the top professionals in the UK who are investigating the [metaverse]
— The Metaverse: A Professional Guide - Launch and networking event, UCL
"Event timeline:
6:30pm - Doors open at UCL, for people who wish to come early and socialise.
7:00pm - Introduction from Dinah Lammiman, Professor and Course Leader at UCL
7:05pm - An exploration of the topics covered in the book:
Tom Ffiske, Editor of the Immersive Wire
James Pearce, Editor at TechInformed
7:30pm - Panel discussion exploring the exciting (and nebulous) parts of the metaverse:
Host: Chris Sutcliffe, Senior Reporter at The Drum
Vaidehi Bhargava, Immersive tech creative
Lorna Inman, VR artist
Charlie Neuner, Manager, Metaverse Technologies at PwC
Dinah Lammiman, Professor and Course Leader at UCL
8:00pm - Event ends, optional networking drinks at the nearby pub begins."
Prize
2021 Winter Prize
— Styly Global
My Virtual Reality, cookie-eating flying reindeers won a prize from the XR company Styly. I am honoured to have been chosen alongside long established and respected VR artists Willowmoon and Bingkoland
https://www.vaidehiart.net/reindeer-creative-ego
Press mention
up-and-coming creative in London
— Tom Ffiske
I am so ecstatic to share that my xmas project (reindeer creative ego) (https://vimeo.com/656367318) and I have been mentioned in ‘the Immersive Wire’ (https://www.immersivewire.com/) a biweekly newsletter containing ‘rigorous and high-quality analysis’ of the ‘VR, AR, and the metaverse’ by the bestselling immersive reality industry author Tom Ffiske, I am referred to as an ‘up - and- coming creative in London’.
Selected for the Calm Art Collective X Connor Brothers exhibition @The Other Art Fair!
The acceptance, painting, winging and beautification of my hitherto despised body into a state of magic and desirability. I’ve become the ‘belle dame’ of Keats’ poem and I am claiming and staking my faery-hood. In 2011 I had the ‘perfect’ figure I now eternally wish to regain. I dressed up as the Belle Dame from Keats’ poem for a Halloween party and snapped into various love triangles. Even though I was the Belle Dame, I was crying on the phone to my mother like any woebegone knight.
As part of my self-celebration, I’ve been pursuing bellydancing. I bought my first pair of fairy wings ever, as an experimental character costume. I then started to customise them with my face. I then saw the brief for this exhibition. I picked up the wings again and remembered how I dressed up as the Belle Dame with Keats’ signature forged on my clavicle. I still had my ‘wild wild eyes’ in my studio, which were a pair of plastic pink strip heart glasses. I felt wings grow on my back and wanted to show my wings. ‘La Belle Dame’ - Vaidehi Bhargava, 2020, 65cm x 95.5cm, mixed media (acrylic and ink) on canvas
For me art is an ecstatic magical gloriously colourful adventure!
August 2020:
Social Distancing Art Residency (remote),
The Jaipur Inn,
Jaipur, India
July 2020, Selected Gif. Artist, Dina Arts Venue,
Sheffield, UK,
April 2020: Featured Artist, Grayson’s Art Club, Channel 4
