YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW IN THE METAVERSE - Panel Discussion

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

Peggy Schoenegge participates at Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin (FFFB)

IRL at The Factory and online

Fri, October 8, 2021, 6 - 7 pm

The Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin (FFFB) was created to support up and coming female talents from different ethnic backgrounds and nationalities, who have a unique story to tell. The annual five-day film event features screenings of international short & feature films of all genres as well as a hand-picked selection of music videos, panels, networking sessions and more. Peggy Schoenegge is part of the AR/VR panel: The Future of Filmmaking & Mixed Media together with Gerda Leopold (Amilux Filmporduktion), Kathrin Brunner (Myndstorm Productions Berlin) and Maria Courtial (Faber Courtial). The panel is moderated by Jewell Sparks (Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin / BITHOUSE GROUP) 

Full program and more information

Tina Sauerlaender participates in VRHAM!'s REAL-IN conference

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?

Full program here

Watch the talk here

peer to space’s curator Peggy Schoenegge at WISE 2020

peer to space’s curator and project manager Peggy Schoenegge moderated a panel with Patricia Detmering (Artist), Giorgio Vitale (Director Synthesis Gallery) and Li Zhenhua (Curator, Artists and Producer) on VR Art in China and the West for WISE 2020.

The talk will be streamed on August 29, 2020, 2:55 to 3:40 pm, CET Berlin.

WISE is a Future Think Tank. It is China’s most important global summit connecting thought leaders of the creative industries, science and the tech community on both sides of the Great Firewall to discuss essential questions about how we want and should live in the future.

 Further Information

Artist as Curators. Panel Discussion at Finnish Institute in Berlin

Panel discussion on curating at Finnland-Institut in Deutschland with the artists and curators of Black Market Berlin, Marcus Eek and Olli Piippo, and Anja Lückenkemper, artistic director of Kunstverein Göttingen and peer to space's curator Tina Sauerländer, moderated by the head of the Finnish Insitute, Dr. Laura Hirvi! 
Photo by Carlotta Meyer

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