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Strangeways

Updated 13 July 2026CC-BY-4.0
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Strangeways is a psychedelic passage through illustrator Chris Bianchi's hand-drawn mind: corridors that twist into gardens, sketches that become inhabitable rooms. Built for Shtik XR, it was an official selection of Venice Immersive 2024 (81st Venice International Film Festival) and a Raindance Immersive Best Art World nominee.

Role

VR worldbuilding, design, and production — Dale P. Deacon with Alex Bosman, Jacob Mwesigwa, and collaborators including Adam Lieber (director / sound), Wondering Chew (avatars), Jamie D. Huxley (words), HAL Sorta (photographs), and Azad Balabanian (plane-crash photogrammetry).

In 2025 the team received a grant to port the experience to HTC Viverse (web-VR), extending the same art direction beyond native VRChat clients.

What it tests

Can 2D illustration survive as a place? Strangeways answers by refusing polygons-as-default: line, smear, and dream logic become architecture. Festival selection proves curatorial seriousness; the Viverse port proves the work can leave a single platform without losing its hand.

Verify

  • strangeways.ink
  • La Biennale — Venice Immersive 2024
  • Raindance Immersive
  • Voices of VR podcast
  • Viverse

Related: Expeditions, strangeways-the-only-way-out-is-through, venice-immersive-2025, mormoverse-under-the-pillow.

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