This paper analyses the use of Immersive Experiences (IX) within artistic research, as an interdisciplinary environment between artistic, practice based research, visual pedagogies, social and cognitive sciences. This paper examines IX in the context of social shared spaces. It presents the Immersive Lab University of Malta (ILUM) interdisciplinary research project. ILUM has a dedicated, specific room, appropriately set-up with life size surround projection and surround sound so as to provide a number of viewers (located within the set-up) with an IX virtual reality environment. The paper discusses how ILUM combines and integrates three research strands that are part of a major, sustained artistic or scientific focus of the partnering academic institutions, namely the Virtual Narration Lab (vnLab), the Immersive Pipeline (IP) at Goldsmiths, the ICST’s ‘Immersive Lab’ (IL) at the Zurich University of the Arts, and the Spatial Media Research Group. In those labs researchers, artists, investigate and create different kinds of IX. ILUM provides the opportunity to situate artistic research in the context of scientific. The thematic backgrounds of these research strands and the infrastructure of ILUM serve as starting points from which the partners collaboratively create new communication content, exhibition settings and research as well as teaching materials.