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

Resonant Realities - VR Art Exhibition curated by Tina Sauerlaender

RESONANT REALITIES

Exhibition of the VR ART PRIZE by DKB in Cooperation with CAA Berlin

Featuring the works of the grant recipients: Banz & Bowinkel, Evelyn Bencicova, Patricia Detmering, Armin Keplinger and Lauren Moffatt

April 16 – June 6, 2021 at Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin

Each individual perceives the world through different lenses. Our personal views determine our impressions of our surroundings. Communication and exchange enable the possibility of encountering and understanding other outlooks. This act can be understood as a resonance of various realities. By putting one's own perspective in relation to another’s, it is possible to expand our own. In the best case, this process may create an open and empathetic coexistence within our society.

In the exhibition space, we interact with virtual reality artworks that here form a digital resonance of the physical world. We encounter virtual beings, observe interpersonal exchanges, and witness arrangements among artificial intelligence. The digital works resonate in the exhibition space in corresponding site-specific installations. The contrast between the physical and computer-generated worlds reveals the divergent parameters that apply to each location. Depending on the environment and one’s own viewpoint, the objects appear in variants and communication follows a different set of rules.

The artistic works reveal a deeper understanding of the digital realm and present technology as a human product which is inextricably linked to our values and norms. Our engagement with these works unlocks the possibility of questioning our relationship to culture, to our fellow human beings, and to the machines and technologies that surround us. This process consequently prompts a reexamination of our thoughts and actions.

Curated by: Tina Sauerlaender (Artistic Director)

More information: vrkunst.dkb.de

Online Events and Timeslot booking: hal-berlin.de

Image credits: Patricia Detmering, Aporia, 2020 / Evelyn Bencicova, Arielle Esther, Joris Demnard (Ikonospace), Artificial Tears, 2019 / Lauren Moffatt, Image Technology Echoes, 2020 / Banz & Bowinkel, Poly Mesh, 2020 / Armin Keplinger, THE ND-Serial, 2020/2021

peer to space’s curator Peggy Schoenegge at Golem-Labor Conference

peer to space’s curator Peggy Schoenegge will hold a keynote on Performing Arts in XR at Golem-Labor Conference.  

In the online conference, artists and XR experts will share their experiences, artistic projects and open dialogue on the intersection of art and immersive technologies. They will address questions on the intersection of the (performing) arts and (XR) technologies. How does the interaction of performing arts and technology impact the audience? How can the body and its physicality be experienced in VR? What are the limitations when working with Motion Capture technologies or Volumetric recording? And can the technology be more than just a tool?

The online conference is organized by gamelab.berlin and Goethe-Institut Prag. 

Further information 

Tina Sauerlaender becomes Art & Tech columnist for Netzpiloten.de

Tina Sauerlaender started to contribute to Netzpiloten.de with a column on Art & Tech on the German platform for the online magazine Netzpiloten.de that focuses on digital and tech.

Netzpiloten.de are among the digital pioneers in Germany. Founded in 1998 in Hamburg by Wolfgang Macht and Matthias Dentler, the company was one of the prominent representatives of the so-called New Economy. As such, it experienced the ups and downs of this economic phase with innovative network products. Today, the Netzpiloten, with around 75 employees in Hamburg, Berlin and Barcelona, work in the fields of digital marketing and digital publications. In particular, the independent magazine netzpiloten.de has accompanied the digital change for over 15 years.

See her first text on WebVR conferences here

See her profile on netzpiloten.de here

WALKTHROUGHS by Synthesis Gallery: Martina Menegon and Tina Sauerlaender

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

Synthesis Gallery
Martina Menegon

Artist Talk with THIS IS FAKE moderated by peer to space's curator Peggy Schoenegge

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

More information

Talk on Virtual Reality & Art at LMU Munich by Tina Sauerlaender

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

Further Information (Germany only)

peer to space at Kunst und Immersion – Herbstakademie Leipzig

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

Further information

peer to space at VRHAM!

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.

Further information and program

peer to space’s curator Peggy Schoenegge at A MAZE Festival

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.

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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

UNCANNY CONDITIONS - A Virtual Reality Exhibition

Artists: Salome Asega & Reese Donohue & Tongkwai Lulin (US), Geoffrey Lillemon (FR), Martina Menegon (IT/AT), Jakob Kudsk Steensen (DK/US)

Curated by: Tina Sauerländer and Peggy Schoenegge

Exhibition at whiteBOX, Atelierstraße 1, 81671 Munich, Germany // For FNY Festival, Werksviertel, Munich, Germany // Opening: September 1 // Duration: September 1–10, 2017

The VR exhibition UNCANNY CONDITIONS delves into the challenges of human living in the digital age reflected in four artistic virtual reality experiences. Uncanny means strange or mysterious and refers to something beyond the ordinary or normal. The term Uncanny Valley refers to robots or avatars designed as humanoids. They appear almost, but never exactly, human and evoke an uncanny irritation for the viewer, a lack of authenticity. In this sense, uncanniness could also refer to digitally created imagery almost indistinguishable from reality. All these meanings occur in the virtual reality exhibition UNCANNY CONDITIONS.

Salome Asega, Reese Donohue and Tongkwai Lulin (US) ASM(V)R, 2017, artistic VR experience

Geoffrey Lillemon (FR) The Nail Polish Inferno @ La Vilette, Virtual Reality Retrospective Strip Club Nightmare set in Bubblegum Hell, 2016, artistic VR experience

Martina Menegon (IT/AT) plug your nose and try to hum, 2017, virtual reality installation

Jakob Kudsk Steensen (DK/US) Aquaphobia, 2017, virtual reality installation

http://www.fny-festival.com/ // http://www.whitebox.art/

www.peertospace.eu/uncanny-conditions

RESET III and VIRTUAL REALITY

Opening & Artist Talk: September 8, 2017, 6 pm (Artist Talk at 5 pm)

At: PRISKA PASQUER, Albertusstr. 18, 50667 Cologne, Germany

Artists: Gazira Babeli (IT), Friedemann Banz & Giulia Bowinkel (DE), Dominik Halmer (DE), Carla Mercedes Hihn (ROU/DE), Claudia Larcher (AUT), Patrick Lichty (US/UAE), Judith Sönnicken (DE), The Swan Collective (DE), Tamiko Thiel (JP/DE), Fiona Valentine Thomann (FR/DE) & Alfredo Salazar-Caro’s (MEX/US) and William Robertson’s (US) Digital Museum of Digital Art with the exhibition Morphé Presence curated by Helena Acosta (US) and Eileen Isagon Skyers (PH/US), with works by Rosa Menkman (NL/DE), Brenna Murphy (US), Theo Triantafyllidis (GR/US), Miyö Van Stenis (VEN/FR)

Curated by Tina Sauerländer (peer to space)

Gazira Babeli, Nudes Descending a Staircase - Monument to Marcel Duchamp, scripted environment, March 2007, © the artist, courtesy of the artist and PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

The exhibition RESET III and VIRTUAL REALITY illuminates the artistic exploration of virtual spaces against the background of the digital age. How do artists create virtual spaces? How do they compare to real environments? How does VR affect the body and perception? The RESET exhibition series initiated by | PRISKA PASQUER | deals with the development of art in the digital age in different artistic media. It examines how artists react to the challenges and possibilities of digital transformation.

More information here.

Critical Conversation on Virtual Reality in Canada

Critical Approaches to Virtual Reality: A Conversation about the Present, Past and Future of VR

Presenters: Tina Sauerlaender, Erandy Vergara, Paloma Dawkins, Tali Goldstein and Ruben Farrus (Casa Rara)

May 24th, 5pm to 7pm

Milieux Institute at Concordia University

Recent art projects and discussions about VR seem mostly awestruck by the possibilities of the technologies themselves. However, there are critical and historical perspectives that we must address in order to investigate issues of aesthetics, politics, and the conceptual aspects of VR artworks and games. This conversation will include questions such as: How can artists and collectives working with Virtual Reality today challenge mainstream uses of this technology? What can we learn from the pioneers of VR and the criticism that media theorists asked regarding early celebratory discourses? Where are we in regards to issues of embodiment/disembodiment? What about feminist and postcolonial critiques of VR?

Studio XX sincerely thanks the Goethe-Institut and the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University for their support as partners of this event.

Image: Exhibition view THE UNFRAMED WORLD at HeK Basel, artwork: Banz & Bowinkel, Mercury, 2016 (Installation view, VR experience) / Photo by Franz Wamhof

FEEL SCREENLESS: WHY ARTISTS USE VIRTUAL REALITY

Lecture by peer to space's director Tina Sauerländer
Since the launch of HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, Virtual Reality (VR) is widely used in artistic practice. Not only artists working with the digital deal with the new medium, also many artists from other fields e.g. performance of sculpting discover VR as a medium to extend and enhance their artistic ideas. The lecture will include current developments in artistic VR experiences and the history of VR art.
May 9th, 2017, 12.30 pm, Event page
re:publica, Berlin

Lecture by Tina Sauerländer on YouTube

Image: re:publica

TALK: Virtual Reality in Art

With Philip Hausmeier, Tina Sauerländer, Sven Slazenger, and Dr. Ursula Ströbele

Virtual Reality technologies are almost omnipresent, but what does this mean for art? Are those technologies capable of expanding our visions of art and design? Can Virtual Reality bring together the digital and physically-spatial experiences? 

April 12th, 2017, 7 pm
Eigen + Art Lab, Berlin
Event on Facebook
Image: Eigen and Art Lab

Beta Manifest with a contribution by Tina Sauerlaender

Independent Collectors and BVDG published their "Beta Manifesto for the Future Art Market" on art in the Digital Age. peer to space's Tina Sauerländer and VR expert Philip Hausmeier made their statements:

www.beta-manifest.de

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