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Radiance VR and peer to space co-present the VR installation “Artificial Tears” by Evelyn Bencicova and Joris Demnard (Ikonospace) at Düsseldorf Photo+ Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media.
Opening from 7 pm
Curator’s & Artist Talk at 8 pm
Sat, June 15th
photo+ lab - LRRH
Kapuzinergasse 24
40213 Düsseldorf
Metaversum – Utopie, Dystopie oder Realität
22, Mai, 19 Uhr, Villa Hügel, Essen
Mit Angie Gifford, Europa-Chefin von Meta, Prof. Dr. Mario Botsch, Professor für Computer Science an der TU Dortmund, Dr. Tina Sauerländer, Kuratorin und Schriftstellerin und Michael Harr, Geschäftsführer der Stiftung Pro Senectute beider Basel. Die Moderation übernimmt die Autorin und Journalistin Shelly Kupferberg.
Non-Profit Organisationen wie zum Beispiel Stiftungen sind wichtige Akteure in unserer Gesellschaft und gestalten die Räume von morgen mit. Dennoch sind sie bisher kaum präsent im Metaverse. Entsteht da nicht ein Ungleichgewicht? Gibt es nicht sogar so etwas wie eine Verpflichtung für Non-Profit-Organisationen, sich im Metaverse zu engagieren? Weitere Fragestellungen, die besprochen werden, richten sich auf ethische Aspekte und technische Bedingungen für den Zugang zum Metaverse.
Seit 2019 lädt die Stiftung in lockerer Atmosphäre Akteure aus Kunst, Kultur, Literatur, Wissenschaft oder Medien in die Villa Hügel ein. Jeder Salon widmet sich einem thematischen Schwerpunkt und greift aktuelle gesellschaftliche Fragestellungen auf.
Der Eintritt ist kostenfrei. Eine Anmeldung ist erforderlich.
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Bild: Krupp Stiftung
July 7th, 2022
The Digital Futures panelists will discuss and highlight the issues related to the intersection of digital and performance art.
Speakers:
Dr. Christiane Paul, New York, Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art | Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School
Dr. Julie Nagam, Winnipeg, Director Nuit Blanche Toronto | Glam Collective
Tina Sauerlaender, Berlin, Artistic Director VR ART PRIZE | Co-Founder peer to space | Founder SALOON Berlin
Peggy Schoenegge, Berlin Senior Curator | peer to space
Dr. Francesca Albrezzi, L.A, University of California Los Angeles
Rah Eleh, Toronto, Moderator and Artist
We would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts for their support. In addition, we would like to thank our partners at the European Cultural Centre Performance, European Cultural Centre Italy and the Aabijijiwan New Media Lab.
July 7, 2022 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM CEST
https://zoom.us/j/96776275337?pwd=MHpIa2JOQ1ZLdVg3K3JSN21tK2k0dz09
Passcode: 573857
The University of Michigan Digital Studies Institute presents
YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW IN THE METAVERSE
Thursday, February 17, 1-2:30pm EST / 19-20:30h CET
Via Zoom (< Link)
This panel convenes a group of leading international artists and curators working in online spaces in a variety of modalities, including net art, video/animation, game development, VR, XR and the NFT-adjacent art community. The speakers will briefly introduce their own practice and participate in a roundtable discussion that reflects critically on the present concept of the "metaverse," from creative, art historical, and socio-politically-informed perspectives. The conversation will seek to chip away at some of the hype and corporately co-opted buzzwords clouding the present discourse in order to underscore some important legacies and trace a path for the trajectory of the most compelling work in the metaverse.
Panelists:
LaTurbo Avedon, Artist/Avatar
Yvette Granata, Artist, Digital Studies Institute faculty, Assistant Professor, Dept of Film, TV & Media, University of Michigan
Auriea Harvey, Artist, Professor of Games, Kunsthochschule Kassel
Tina Sauerlaender, Director & Head Curator, Peer to Space
Moderator: Marisa Olson, Artist, Executive Director, Digital Studies Institute
REAL-IN CONVENTION
Immersive Technologies in Interactive Arts
Fri, June 11, 2021 , 10-3.30 pm CEST
The conference aims to bring together artists, producers, cultural institutions, policy makers, industry experts and researchers to explore the potentials of 3D-scanning and volumetric capture technologies for interactive and digital arts. With XR technologies becoming increasingly more accessible, how can creatives seize the opportunity to produce courageous and inventive artistic content? How can technological tools and immersive storytelling be used to develop innovative participatory and social audience experiences? And how to create an immediate and lasting ecosystem that inspires new ideas and drives creative advancement?
May 26 and 27, 2021 (Full Program here)
Digital technologies have profoundly impacted the arts by expanding the field of sculpture. A number of theoretical approaches discuss the implications of the so-called 'Aesthetics of the Digital', referring, above all, to screen-based phenomena. Art history, however, continues to pay little attention to sculptural works that are conceived and ‚materialized‘ using digital technologies. This is surprising given that computers became an artistic medium in the 1950s, CNC technology was used as early as the 1960s, and 3D scanning and printing processes came to prominence in the 1980s. The symposium aims to discuss current research perspectives on historical and contemporary sculptural phenomena, in particular, how digital technologies re-configure the understanding of sculpture and the sculptural.
The following questions serve as guides for the topics that will be discussed:
How are concepts of monumentality and site-specificity altered, when sculptures easily circulate as files online and can be 3D printed at any time? If artists now model their sculptures with software, how can we make sense of their spatiality, plasticity and materiality? When an object can no longer be grasped in a tactile sense, which modes of perception are addressed? How can we think of an object that arises from an algorithm and appears as pixels on a screen without sharing the same spatial conditions as the viewer? How do we experience objects that only become visible through an app? What ontological status do such computer-aided works possess that can be experienced both physically (for example 3D printing) and virtually (on screen)? How can we interpret concepts of authorship in times of digital coproduction and artificial intelligence? Which forms of participation or interaction does the respective interface address? How does this experience affect the "aesthetic border”?
Through systematic, interdisciplinary and historical examination, the symposium will contribute to discussions on the sculptural in the (post-) digital age with the goal of advancing reflections on the artistic medium for our technological present.
Conception
Ursula Ströbele (Study Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Central Institute for Art History, Munich) and Mara-Johanna Kölmel (Institute for Art History and Philosophy, Leuphana University, Lüneburg).
Panel at Laval Virtual Conference:
Digital and Virtual Art Exhibitions IRL and the Virtual World
April 23, 2020 at 4-6 pm Berlin time / 10 am -12 pm New York time
At: Laval Virtual Conference (at Laval Virtual World)
Short Talks by
Michael Connor (Artistic Director, rhizome.org)
Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator of Digital Art | Director/Chief Curator Whitney Museum | Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, The New School)
Alfredo Salazar-Caro (Co-founder DiMoDA)
Tina Sauerlaender (Co-founder peer to space and Radiance VR)
Panel Discussion moderated by
Julie Walsh (Founder Walsh Projects)
How to join the conference?
The participation is for free.
Register for the conference
Download and install the Laval Virtual World (you can use it on your desktop)
Login and explore the world.
Read guidelines how to attend the conferences
The full schedule of the events can be found here.
WALKTHROUGHS by Synthesis Gallery
April 20 at 6 pm Berlin time / Noon New York time
Live Streaming on Facebook here
ZOOM Link here
Martina Menegon will introduce her VR works and be in conversation with peer to space’s Director Tina Sauerlaender. They will speak about the perception of self and the creation of identity in the digital world. The talk will be moderated by George Vitale (Synthesis Gallery).
About the series Walkthroughs : VR art live streamed through the artist's eyes. A weekly meetup happening online with curators joining the conversation and creatives that, in turn, put the headset on, share their screen and walk us through the VR work. The walkthroughs focus on providing an overview of the artist’s creative process and insights into the work as heard from the artists themselves, as they walk us through it.
Image: Martina Menegon, ‘when you are close to me I shiver’, VR experience, still, 2020
June 9, 2019, at 6 pm at Stockmeyerstrasse 43, Hamburg HafenCity, Oberhafenquartier, Germany
peer to space’s director Tina Sauerlaender moderates a panel with Gabrielle Roque (Director COCOTTE-MINUTE, winner of the international Residency VRHAM! 2019), Ulrich Schrauth (Artistic Director VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival) and Julie Walsh (freelance curator for VR & AR, founder of Walsh Projects) on exhibiting VR Art in a physical space.
VRHAM! is an international Festival for Virtual Reality Art. Established in 2018, the festival opens its doors for the second time, from 7 to 15 June 2019, in Hamburg’s Oberhafenquartier. Under this year’s motto “DIS:SOLUTION” they present a large selection of Virtual Reality experiences and live performances by contemporary artists.
As part of the group exhibition UNSTABLE SETTINGS, peer to space’s curator Peggy Schoenegge will moderate an artist talk with the artist collective THIS IS FAKE. In addition to their new works, the focus will be on virtual reality as an artistic medium and social dynamics in the digital age.
Date: Friday May 5, 2019 at 4 - 6 pm
Venue: UNTERGESCHOSS14 of Halle14 at the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Spinnereistraße 7, 04179 Leipzig
Pecha Kucha Art Night 5 //Post-Digital takes place as a part of the Technobodies event series:
CUBE, Virtual Gallery for Virtual Art, Architectural Design by Manuel Rossner, Courtesy of Roehrs & BoetschDate: May 23, 2019, 6 pm (doors open)
Date: May 23, 2019, 6 pm (doors open)
Location: Grüner Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin
Tickets on Eventbrite // Event on Facebook
In the digital age, the digital is no longer only digital. Digital aesthetics entered real space long ago, and new technologies such as Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality are producing new art forms. Curating takes place on and offline, in exhibition spaces, websites or on social media. Art is now even sold over Instagram. Museums use digital tools to promote their exhibitions. Art and life are now increasingly intertwined outside of the museum and the White Cube.
The evening’s speakers will introduce their various subject areas and thereby will sketch an exciting picture of the post-digital art scene in Berlin. The talks will be given in English or German.
Speakers:
Antje Akkermann, Curator of Media, Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art in the Humboldt Forum
Alma Alloro, Artist
Tilman Baumgärtel, Author, journalist, professor for Media Science, University of Applied Sciences, Mainz
Philip Hausmeier, Co-founder, RadianceVR.co
Janne Nora Kummer, Director, performer, multimedia artist, member of the artist collective virtuellestheater
Wolf Lieser, Director, DAM
Peggy Schoenegge, Board member, medienkunstverein.com
Anika Meier, Art scholar, author, curator
Daniel Neugebauer, Head of Department of Communications and Cultural Education, HKW
Nina Roehrs, Director, Roehrs & Boetsch
Manuel Rossner, Artist and founder of Float Gallery
Sakrowski, Curator, panke.gallery and member of 21cc
Since 2015 the lecture series PECHA KUCHA ART NIGHT has been organized and moderated by Tina Sauerlaender (peer to space) and Yvonne Zindel (Performing Encounters).
More information about the event.
More information about the previous PECHA KUCHA ART NIGHTS.
Technobodies is curated by Yvonne Zindel, who explores the possibilities of the digital in art and design, cultural hacks, and digital forms of mediation in a research-based and artistic way. Since 2014 she has regularly been negotiating topics such as AI and hacking in her series Performing Encounters. The series addresses scenarios for the exchange and genesis of ideas at the interface of art and science, in the intimate yet public setting of the Grüner Salon. The interplay between data and our bodies will be explored. In doing so, the imaginary contradiction between analog and digital is reflected upon critically, and the informal exchange from the digital hub will be brought back to the analog salon—and vice versa.
Peggy Schoenegge will be part of the panel DISKURS #2: DIGITAL*ANALOG at this year’s Hauptsache Frei – Festival of Performing Arts on April 7th, 2019. Together with Alexandra Wolf, Friedrich Kirschner and Susanne Schuster she will be talking about the interrelation between the digital and the analog and its influence on the perception of art.
Image.: Scrubbing 1, Maquette, 2017 by Rachel Rossin (Postmasters Gallery)
As a part of the lecture series on Digital Art History at the KHI (Department for Art History) of the LMU University Munich, Germany, peer to space’s director Tina Sauerlaender gives a talk on Immersion & Virtual Reality in Art and Art History (in German).
January 22, 2019, 7 pm, at Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Zentnerstr. 31, Raum 007 im EG
The symposium is organized by peer to space’s director Tina Sauerlaender.
The peer to space team participates in this year’s Herbstakademie at Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany, on the subject of Kunst und Immersion – Herbstakademie. Peggy Schoenegge will give a talk and Tina Sauerlaender will moderate a panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Martina Leeker, Peggy Schoenegge and Andreas Wolfsteiner on November 30, 2018.
This is Fake und Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig invite to a three-day academy with lectures, workshops and a panel discussion with various theorists* dealing with the potentials, problems, and limits of the perception phenomenon "immersion" in (digital) art and beyond.
HGB Leipzig - November 30 to December 2, 2018
Peggy Schoenegge will give a talk about her work as a curator with a focus on digital and new media art at this year’s Process Festival, Dortmund on October 6th. The topic of the festival is humans and machines. In keeping with the theme Peggy will especially concentrate on this relationship in her work. She will also bring two VR artworks by Martina Menegon and The Swan Collective, presented by Radiance VR.
Further information and program
Peggy Schoenegge will be part of the Designing Conference 2 at this year’s Vienna Design Week. She gives the talk „Art Unframed – VR als künstlerisches Medium“ and will be talking about VR as an artistic medium on October 4th, 5 pm.
Vienna Design Week
September 29th to October 7th, 2018
Further informations and program
SCREENING and ARTIST TALK with Kate Durbin, Los Angeles-based artist and writer.
Kate Durbin's new film Unfriend Me Now! is an exorcism of the rhetorical wars on Facebook over Donald Trump's election in the US. Using the figure of the clown and the white box of the Facebook timeline, Unfriend Me Now! explores the co-option of rage by corporate interests, and the ways we communicate our political views online in the 21st century. After the film screening, Kate Durbin will be in conversation with Berlin-based curator Tina Sauerlaender (peer to space)
August 20, 2018, 7.30 pm at OMO Artspace, Hertzbergstr. 14, 12055 Berlin
Event by peer to space & OMO artspace
peer to space’s director Tina Sauerlaender and curator Peggy Schoenegge are part of this year’s VRHAM! Festival in Hamburg, Germany. Tina is part of the jury as well as moderating the panel on VR and art VR here to talk! on Saturday, June 9th at 5 pm. Peggy will open the discourse program with a keynote What the f*** is VR on Thursday, June 7th 2018.
VRHAM! – Virtual Reality and Art Festival Hamburg 2018
June 7th to June 17th 2018
VRHAM! is Germany’s first artistic Virtual Reality festival. VRHAM! is presenting a large variety of outstanding international VR experiences in Hamburg’s Oberhafenquartier, unique in its form and sure to transcend the borders of traditional perception and experience of art.
Peggy Schoenegge will be part of this year’s jury for the A MAZE AWARD together with Sarah Northway (CA), Robert Yang (US); Jack King-Spooner (UK), and Leena Kejriwal (IN) and participates in the panel „Digital Exhibits and the 2nd Spring of Virtual Art Spaces“ moderated by Torsten Wiedemann on Friday, April 27th, 11 to 12 am.
A MAZE. 7th International Games and Playful Media Festival
April 25th to April 29th at Urban Spree, Revaler Straße 99 10245 Berlin
A MAZE. is an international festival focusing on the art and culture of games and playful media. It invites the general public to experience inspiring talks, workshops, music, and an exhibition.
Further information and program