A Virtual Cultivation

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See You At Home. Architektur im MAGAZIN,  Lecture, with Joan Soler-Adillon and Bettina Katja Lange. ︎
 
See You At Home. Goethe Institut Beijing Exhibition, with Joan Soler-Adillon and Bettina Katja Lange. ︎

The Smallest of Worlds. ETH Zurich Exhibition, with Joan Soler-Adillon and Bettina Katja Lange. XR-Exhibition. ︎

Let me hear your body talk: an explorative journey to the ordinaries of Social VR, with Stefan Maier, Cenk Güzeli, Dominic Schwab. Digital FUTURES Workshop, online.

The Smallest of Worlds. VRHAM!, with Joan Soler-Adillon and Bettina Katja Lange. XR-Installatio. Virtual Reality and Arts Festival, Hamburg


The Smallest of Worlds. Les Ailleurs Exhibition, with Joan Soler-Adillon and Bettina Katja Lange. XR-Installatio. Digital Arts Museum  La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris

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Let Me Hear Your Body talk



Format:    XR Workshop at DigitalFUTURES 2021.
Collaborators:    Stefan Maier, Cenk Güzelis, Dominic Schwab.

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We have been closely following the global events related to COVID-19 and have quickly learned to come to terms with new social behaviors. Isolation, separation, and social distancing have opened new avenues for remote communication, but have also forced us to seek alternative ways of living together in virtual spaces.
In this workshop, we immersed ourselves together with students into the multiverse of VRChat, a giant social VR platform, to create, host, and co-host public and private events. We transformed our private homes into fabulous virtual public arenas. We explored strange hybrid states, oscillating between the physical and the virtual, as we collectively performed profound architectural rituals like sleeping, eating, and even bathing.


The workshop included extended reality methods to expand our physical boredom and allowed ourselves and our familiar living spaces to interface with the unfamiliar, weird and exotic other of the virtual dimension.
Concentrating on exploring digital interventions in both the physical and the virtual realities, the workshop provided a theoretical and practical overview as well as insights into the idea of the Virtual as Public and Social Space and a stage to perform identity. With this in mind, we experimented with time-based embodied experiences to explore new ways of inhabiting both our bodies and our most-used intimate spaces in new, performative ways, transcending ourselves into pixels and bytes as we allow our virtual friends to inhabit our physical bedrooms, and perhaps even end up hosting dinner parties together.



Image Credits:    Stefan Maier, Cenk Güzelis,
Dominc Schwab, Uwe Brunner.


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