Author: Maja Stark

Save the date! On June 26, there will be the 5th XR ART & NETWORKING in our EU-funded projects’ series.

The focus lies on three topics and we are very pleased that we could win excellent speakers for two of them:

• Artistic Research – In this context, Dr. Marlene Bart will give a talk and also present her VR work Theatrum Radix as part of her artistic research.
• Analogue Haptics – The haptic sense has so far been little integrated into XR experiences. Based on initial ideas, we would like to reflect with you on the possibilities of integrating haptic perception in mixed reality.
• Autonomous avatars – Interactions with avatars start with verbal communication, but is there more to it? Xenia Klinge and Tanja Simeonovski from DFKI will give a presentation on this topic.

• We are also planning a 1-hour workshop with our colleagues from DFKI to discuss and brainstorm about autonomous avatars in cultural formats, information booths with artistic XR experiences and, as always, a coffee van by the Spree! 

For the detailed programme, please visit this link. 

You can already register by sending an email to aurora@htw-berlin.de – if you are interested, please also mention your binding registration for the workshop with DFKI (directly after the talks at around 3.15 pm).

Congratulations to our new Artistic Fellow Jens Isensee, who convinced our expert jury with his mixed reality project »Tauchgang« (wt) with Oculus Quest 3! In the interactive installation, he combines digital content with analogue objects made of disposable materials and sends users on a journey into the time after the Anthropocene. We are looking forward to the collaboration!

Website Jens Isensee: https://jensisensee.de/

From now on regularly! Every year, we offer two or three one-day XR Maker Spaces for creatives with previous knowledge. The first Maker Space at the end of 2023 was on the development of multiplayer projects in virtual reality, the second one will be on augmented reality in public space!

After each XR Maker Space, there will be an open access video tutorial published on our website, on Youtube and by our cooperation partner nachtkritik.plus.

The next two XR Maker Spaces will take place in autumn 2024!

More info about our Maker Space.

Since 15 February 2024, our second XR OPEN CALL within the HERA project funding is online!

We are looking for a strong artistic concept in connection with augmented, mixed and/or virtual reality. Thematically, we are eager to hear your ideas and topics!

Here is the link to the XR OPEN CALL!

This is amazing! Our preceding project XR_Unites (2020-23), which was also funded by the ERDF, was included in the “Fourth State Report on the Implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in and by Germany”.

Happy to announce that the augmented reality artist’s book »Señor Pulpo« —developed by Christina Sarli and the HTW developer André Selmanagić in 2020/21 in the AURORA production lab—has been selected as one of 7 projects (of 90) at the “Digital Literature” section of this year’s BuchBasel on 17–19 November 2023!

On 31.03.23 at 12 pm Prof. Jürgen Sieck and Maja Stark invite to an info event. For one hour, participants will have the opportunity to talk to the project management about the new ERDF project HERA and its AURORA XR School for Artists, the new course offerings and the current XR OPEN CALL, as well as to ask their questions.