NEWS & BLOG

Warm invite to our final event as part of the HERA project funding! Award-winning XR artist Mohsen Hazrati and arthouse game studio Neonature will present their current projects. There will be short talks, an open fishbowl discussion, time for networking and a hands-on session with the artistic works on display….

Christmas is approaching — the perfect reason to deck our world in festive mixed reality, build a portal into a shimmering virtual Christmas realm, and dive right in! Are you joining us? Portals are a fantastic way to simulate seamless transitions between XR worlds with different levels of immersion. Together,…

The dates for the final round of XR BASICS at HTW Berlin have been set, and we warmly invite independent artists and cultural professionals in Berlin to take part! Thanks to EU funding, the courses are, as always, free of charge. Further information, requirements, and registration can be found in…

On September 25–26, 2025, the XXII. International Conference KUI – Culture and Computer Science will take place at the Kulturforum Berlin. As the final networking event of our current project funding, we warmly invite Berlin’s independent arts and culture scene to join us for the public Conference Session III »Hybrid…

Herzliche Einladung zu unserem 6. Jahresevent XR ART & NETWORKING am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2025, an der HTW Berlin! Dieses Jahr ist es eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung mit dem neuen Immersive Technologies Hub (ITH) an unserer Hochschule. Freut euch mit uns auf inspirierende Talks, eine offene Fishbowl-Diskussion, XR-Workshops und großartige XR-Projekte an…

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…

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…

Leonid has recorded two new XR tutorials for you – both with a focus on possibilities and current tools for using augmented reality in public spaces. Tutorial language is German (subtitles via Youtube are possible). Please find them under XR Tutorials (digital), German version, and scroll down, as our tutorials…

On 27 September, we are part of the awesome festival Transferale in Berlin to present and discuss »from hostile to hospitable«, the interactive WebAR application for inclusive urban spaces that we developed in close collaboration with the artist Martin Binder! The experience explores discriminatory design in urban public spaces and…