Our project at MANIFEST:IO festival 2025
Happy to be part of this year’s MANIFEST:IO, the Symposium for New Media and Electronic Art in Berlin!
Our AURORA XR School for Artists is partner of the festival organised and curated by Harshini Karunaratne, Basel Naouri and team – and together with our Artistic Fellows, we will present 2 XR artworks there:
– from hostile to hospitable, with artist Martin Binder: Using augmented reality technology to visualize utopia of friendly urban spaces.
– NOVOCENE, with artist Jens Isensee: Using mixed reality technology to unfold a narrative that explores the Anthropocene, the geological era dominated and shaped by humans, and to reflect on a possible future.
Our project manager Maja Stark will also be moderating the DESIGNING COLLECTIVE FUTURES panel on Sunday, 23.02.2025, at 6 pm.
Tickets and further info under this LINK!
And the AURORA fellowship 2025 goes to …
The AURORA XR Fellowship 2024/25 goes to Lisa Kaschubat, Tasha Hess-Neustadt and Jane Arnison with their concept for PHYGITAL INTIMACY!
PHYGITAL INTIMACY (AT) is a speculative vision of the future that combines live performance, mixed reality (MR), gaming and AI with contemporary dance, performance and generative music production.
Performers and the participating audience enter a multiplayer MR environment where they interact with both AI-driven digital content and a generative sound layer. Inspired esp. by Sophie K. Rosa’s concept of radical intimacy – care and community are emphasized as political fields of resistance – the aim is to create connection and intimacy between the users, but also between humans and machines.
A big thank you goes to our expert jury – Pablo Dornhege, Sebastian Keppler and Peggy Schoenegge – and to the many artists and cultural professionals for their submissions to our annual XR Open Call!
NEW: Open source code and instructions
From 2023 to 2025, we are developing three innovative XR projects with Berlin artists – for each of them, we are making useful features freely available that you can reuse for your own projects.
The first open source package from the WebAR experience »from hostile to hospitable« with artist Martin Binder is now online! More information, code and detailed instructions are available at this link.
