🗓️ The Programme — FDUK 2026
The full programme has been published. Two packed days in the CULTVR dome: talks, screening blocks, live immersive performances and the FDUK awards. Tickets: £120 per day or £200 for the full festival pass (plus fees) via fulldome.org.uk.
Friday 9 October
Saturday 10 October
👥 Who's Who at FDUK 2026
Short profiles of the speakers, performers and studios on this year's programme, with links to their work.
Speakers
Tom Ammermann
Tom Ammermann is an immersive-audio producer and the founder and general manager of New Audio Technology, established in 2012. His team develops spatial-audio production and playback tools for applications including music, live performance, installations and fulldome/planetarium environments.
Laura Giles
Laura Giles is Managing Director of Screen Cornwall, which she established in 2019, and a producer through Storm Force Films. She executive-produced Gans’n Dhama Wedhen (In the Company of the Mother Tree), an immersive fulldome film poem set in a Cornish temperate rainforest.
MONOCOLOR (Marian Essl)
MONOCOLOR is the artistic alias of Vienna-based audiovisual artist Marian Essl, whose performances and installations combine generative imagery with spatial sound composition. His fulldome work includes NOOSPHERE (2026), an audiovisual performance exploring human thought, digital networks and climate change.
Natalia Podgorska
Natalia Podgorska is a visual artist working with digital sculpture, photogrammetry and virtual filmmaking, and has performed live visuals with object blue. She is credited for visual assets and environments on Jenn Leung’s VTuber Studio, a project supported by Off World Live that uses its Unreal Engine streaming and capture toolkit.
Paul Mowbray
Paul Mowbray is Director of NSC Creative, the National Space Centre’s in-house immersive production studio. His producing credits include the fulldome and VR documentary We Are Stars and the planetarium film One Step Beyond: A Journey to Mars.
Lindsey Hall
Lindsey Hall is Chief Executive of Real Ideas. The organisation collaborated with Open Planet Studios to adapt Our Story with David Attenborough for the immersive dome at Market Hall in Plymouth.
Neil Luck
Neil Luck is a UK-based composer and performer working across music-theatre, multimedia, concert works and recordings, and is the founder and director of ARCO. With Monika Czyżyk he runs Czyzyk & Luck Productions; their work includes Almanach, a hybrid of docufiction, music video and experimental performance incorporating 360-degree video and 3D lidar scans.
Aaron Bradbury
Aaron Bradbury is an immersive filmmaker and a creative director at NSC Creative, the National Space Centre’s in-house production studio. He directed the fulldome film One Step Beyond: A Journey to Mars.
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Aaron Holloway-Nahum is a composer, conductor and sound artist working across contemporary concert music and immersive experiences, and is chief conductor and co-Artistic Director of Riot Ensemble. He is Head of Immersive at Southby Productions, where his work includes supporting projects involving Holly Herndon and Chase & Status.
Matt Wright
Matt Wright is Artistic Director of 4Pi Productions, an artist-led immersive studio that launched CULTVR Lab in Cardiff. He co-directed The Rift (2025), a fulldome dance film created with Zimbabwean partners Matamba Film Labs and Afrikera Arts Trust.
Paule Mainville
Paule Mainville is Production Director at Montreal’s Société des arts technologiques (SAT). SAT combines artist residencies, research and training with immersive presentation in its Satosphere dome, supporting the creation and exhibition of digital art.
Tom Edgar
Tom Edgar is a stop-motion animation director and Senior Lecturer in Animation at Cardiff Metropolitan University, with directing credits including Rastamouse, Hana’s Helpline and Wussywat. His research includes directing stop-frame animation in virtual reality.
Jasmin Hedger
Jasmin Hedger is a Cardiff-based multidisciplinary artist, creative director and producer at Happenin Studio, working with stop-motion animation, live action and wearable art. Her immersive practice transforms handmade objects, painted marks and performance into immersive spaces and live visuals.
Vicente Manzano
Vicente Manzano is the founder and creative director of Alma Digital, with a background in filmmaking, music production and digital art. The studio’s immersive work includes Neurocosm in fulldome, XR and 360° formats.
Beltran Lihn
Beltran Lihn is Alma Digital’s co-founder and creative technologist director, combining an architectural background with music production and 3D art. His studio develops immersive and interactive projects including the Neurocosm fulldome experience.
Pedro Zaz
Pedro Zaz is a Portuguese new-media artist, educator and VJ, and a co-founder of United VJs, working in projection mapping, audiovisual performance and fulldome cinema. He is a co-creator of Blendy Dome VJ and is credited by the software’s official site as project lead and 360 artist.
Ryan Moore
Ryan Moore is the founder of Dome Fest West and CEO of the virtual-experience design studio Experience 360°. His immersive production work includes Speed Kills VR and the fulldome documentary Indirect Actions, made with Maranatha Hay.
Live Performers
Proyecto Aurora
Proyecto Aurora is the artistic collaboration credited to Daniel Shambo, Santiago Caicedo and Sebastián Hernández for El Macroscopio. This interactive fulldome installation shifts between galactic and microscopic scales as visitors manipulate its real-time audiovisual simulation.
Daniel Shambo
Daniel Shambo is a designer and creative technologist working with VR, creative coding, animation and interactive environments. With Santiago Caicedo and Sebastián Hernández, he created El Macroscopio, a fulldome installation in which hand movements manipulate a real-time audiovisual universe.
Santiago Caicedo
Santiago Caicedo is a filmmaker, producer at Timbo Estudio and design lecturer at Universidad de los Andes; he directed the animated feature Virus Tropical. He co-created the interactive fulldome installation El Macroscopio with Daniel Shambo and Sebastián Hernández.
Sebastián Hernández
Sebastián Hernández is a co-creator, co-director and co-producer of El Macroscopio alongside Santiago Caicedo and Daniel Shambo. The interactive fulldome work allows participants to alter both sound and visuals through hand-controlled manipulation of a real-time simulation.
DJ Yoda
DJ Yoda is a hip-hop DJ and producer whose work includes audiovisual performance and collaborations across music, film and other disciplines. His 80’s Mixtape at CULTVR combines a live video mix of 1980s music with 360° visuals created in collaboration with 4Pi Productions.
4Pi Productions
4Pi Productions is an artist-led multidisciplinary studio making immersive installations, 360° films and live XR performances; it launched CULTVR Lab in Cardiff in 2019. It collaborates with DJ Yoda on the dome visuals for 80’s Mixtape.
48 Litres of Funk
48 Litres of Funk is a DJ project rooted in record collecting and vinyl exploration, with a portfolio of extended mixes including the Eden Terrace Sessions. CULTVR bills the act’s FDUK set as a mixture of funk, beats and electronic music.
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Matt Black (Coldcut)
Matt Black is one half of the British electronic duo Coldcut and a co-founder of the Ninja Tune record label. His audiovisual work includes developing VJamm with Camart to manipulate and trigger sound and video samples in live performance.
Rito Digital
Rito Digital is Alma Digital’s immersive live-electronic audiovisual project, combining music, movement, storytelling, visuals and light. Its Awakening the Guirotron performance draws on Andean cosmology and is offered in formats including fulldome and 360° spaces.
Studios & Organisations
Visualiseringscenter C
Visualiseringscenter C in Norrköping, Sweden produces fulldome shows and interactive content for science communication through its WISDOME programme. Its film AI – An Immersive Journey into the Future examines artificial intelligence, its workings and its growing place in everyday life.
NSC Creative
NSC Creative is the National Space Centre’s in-house immersive production studio in Leicester, producing high-resolution content for domes worldwide. It created One Step Beyond: A Journey to Mars, developed with the upgraded Sir Patrick Moore Planetarium in mind.
Render Area
Render Area is a Madrid audiovisual production studio working in 3D animation, fulldome, VR, projection mapping and interactive media. It is credited for KIRU and the Mystery of the Lost Moon, a family-oriented fulldome film combining astronomy with a story about fear of the dark.
Creative Planet
Creative Planet is a Polish studio founded by Maciej Ligowski in 2013, producing original fulldome films and CGI content for immersive formats. Its own portfolio includes TIME, Magic Globe and Explore.
Alma Digital
Alma Digital is an immersive art studio creating multimedia experiences across audiovisual art, live music, immersive storytelling and XR. Its portfolio includes Neurocosm Full Dome, interactive biofeedback installations and the Rito Digital live-performance project.
United VJs
United VJs is an international visual-arts collective originating in São Paulo whose work combines projection mapping, architecture, fulldome, software, sound and video art. With StudioAvante, it developed Blendy Dome VJ for real-time domemaster slicing and dome projection mapping.
Dome Fest West
Dome Fest West is a nonprofit organisation presenting a film festival focused on fulldome films and immersive media. It supports creators and connects artists, technologists and industry participants through screenings and related activities.
CULTVR Lab
CULTVR Lab is a not-for-profit digital arts centre in Cardiff supporting the development and presentation of immersive artworks, live performance and XR experiences. It hosts Fulldome UK on 9–10 October 2026, including film screenings, talks and live immersive performances.
Fulldome UK
Fulldome UK is a not-for-profit organisation supporting artists, creative professionals and researchers working in immersive dome environments and frameless media through festivals, screenings and workshops. Its first FDUK event took place in Plymouth in 2010, and the 2026 edition is hosted by CULTVR Lab in Cardiff.
Film screening blocks list titles only in the official programme; individual makers are not credited there. Programme transcribed from the official FDUK 2026 programme graphics (fulldome.org.uk, retrieved 3 October 2026) — check the festival site for last-minute changes.
Images © Fulldome UK / fulldome.org.uk
📅 Key Dates 2026
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End of March 2026Early Bird Ticket DeadlineBook before prices rise at fulldome.org.uk
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4 June 2026Extended Submission DeadlineDeadline extended by one month — films, live performances, presentations
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Oct 9–10, 2026Festival DaysCULTVR Lab, Cardiff, Wales
📬 How to Submit
FDUK 2026 accepts three types of work. You can submit more than one, and across different categories:
- Fulldome Films — Pre-rendered or linear fulldome works. Submit exclusively via FilmFreeway. Read the Film Submission Guidelines PDF carefully before submitting — it contains all technical specs.
- Live Sets — Real-time generative or interactive fulldome works. Submit via the dedicated form at fulldome.org.uk/submissions.
- Presentations — Talks, demos, workshops about your practice, tools or research. Submit via dedicated form.
Multiple submissions are welcome — for example, a film and a talk about the process behind it.
🏛️ Venue: CULTVR Lab, Cardiff
FDUK 2026 is hosted at CULTVR Lab in Cardiff, Wales — an immersive media and creative technology hub. This is the first time the festival returns to Wales, and only the second time it's been held at CULTVR (after previous editions there). Cardiff's creative sector and CULTVR's technical setup make it one of the more interesting venues in the UK for immersive work.
In addition to the main two-day programme, selected fulldome films will be screened for local Cardiff audiences — extending the reach of submitted work beyond the festival itself.
🔊 CULTVR Sound System: What Artists Need to Know
FDUK organisers have circulated CULTVR's April 2026 sound system guide. The main dome setup is a 16-speaker + sub / 17-channel system: 16 d&b audiotechnik 5S loudspeakers on the truss ring, 4 d&b E15X subwoofers on the floor at stage left/right, and a d&b DS100 with En-Space for Soundscape rendering. The dome is 12 metres in diameter and the speaker layout is radially symmetrical in a horizontal plane.
For live performance and spatial audio submissions, there are two practical routes: bring your own renderer and patch 1:1 to the speakers, or use the object-based mixing power of d&b Soundscape. The preferred input is Dante. Dante Virtual Soundcard may work, but CULTVR recommends a dedicated Dante interface for stability; any venue-provided device or DVS licence must be agreed in advance.
Also available: Allen & Heath SQ7/SQ5 consoles with Dante cards, DT168 stage boxes, Yamaha DSR full-range/sub PA, Shure wired and SLX-D radio mics, and 10 IEM beltpacks. Some operations may require specialist venue staff, so technical requirements should be discussed early.
📖 Festival History
Running since 2010 · Not-for-profit · UK & international
Fulldome UK is a not-for-profit organisation founded to promote fulldome as a creative and artistic medium. Its flagship event, FDUK, has been running since 2010, making it one of the longest-running fulldome festivals in the world. The mission: support artists, creative professionals and researchers working in immersive dome environments and frameless media.
Over the years FDUK has toured the UK's major immersive venues and co-hosted international events as far afield as Russia and Brazil:
- 2010 — IVT dome, University of Plymouth (inaugural event)
- Various — Thinktank Planetarium, Birmingham
- Various — National Space Centre, Leicester
- Various — Market Hall Dome, Plymouth
- Various — CULTVR, Cardiff, Wales
- 2026 — CULTVR Lab, Cardiff (current edition)
FDUK also has strong ties with the global fulldome community through international festival partnerships — including FullDome Festival Jena, Dome Fest West, and SAT Montréal.
🌐 Partners & Community
🔗 All Links
- FDUK 2026 official page
- All submission forms & guidelines
- Submit a film — FilmFreeway
- Film Submission Guidelines PDF
- About Fulldome UK
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Published March 14, 2026 · Updated May 5, 2026 with extended deadline and CULTVR Sound System Guide V2 · Updated October 3, 2026 with the full programme and participant profiles · Sources: fulldome.org.uk · Images © Fulldome UK