Mon, August 23, 2021
Tue, August 24, 2021
Wed, August 25, 2021
Thu, August 26, 2021
10:00 AM CEST
Lichthof Theater, Mendelssohnstraße 15, 22761 Hamburg
Have you been wanting to turn the web and virtual spaces into your stage, even before the pandemic? Don’t know where to start? Then join the workshop with digitally advanced performance-, theater- and media artists Gloria Schulz and Alla Popp and get to know practical tools and central artistic approaches of the performance net art!
The four-day workshop will offer you insights into the practical work with different digital tools, as well as delve into artistic questions of what digital spaces entail – questions that have been debated in the net art community for a long time.
Together, we will go on a virtual expedition through worldwide networked, freely accessible digital stages and spaces. In which form are they used and which aesthetics, narratives and references do we find written in them? We are looking for our digital performer self, questioning our performing body and its relationship to digital space and its avatar. When do digital and analog bodies and presences merge? What role do liveness, immersion and presence play beyond classical stage arrangements, performer and audience roles, or divisions between analog and digital worlds?
The workshop teaches practical methods and tools for artistic work with the social VR platform Mozilla Hubs and gives support so that you can create your own worlds in VR. We will experiment with photogrammetry, avatars and forms of interaction, as well as other digital tools to make our own digital stages. Your mentors will actively guide you in developing your first artistic experiments in a VR environment.
The project prototypes created during the workshop may be presented during Hauptsache Frei – Festival der Darstellenden Künste Hamburg 2021.
23.08.: Introduction & expedition: hacking & appropriation of digital worlds, media art references, aesthetics, narratives & discourses.
24.–25.08.: Division into two groups for deeper exploration of: A) digital worlds & spaces and B) digital performance bodies. Work with different tools & methods. Develop own project approaches.
26.08.: Finalization of prototypes, possibly presentation or showing in the context of Hauptsache Frei 2021.
Daily 10:00–16:00
Applications are open to artists:
If you are interested in bringing other technical equipment and resources to try out and discuss with mentors, you are more than welcome!
The number of participants is limited. As we would like to bring together a diverse group of artists, we kindly ask you to share some info about yourself. You will find an application form here (Please keep it short!):
The #BeyondDigital program is part of the project DOCK Hamburg in cooperation with WE PRESENT, #lichthof_lab / LICHTHOF Theater and the NODE Forum for Digital Arts.
DOCK Hamburg is a co-production of “Hauptsache Frei – Festival der Darstellenden Künste Hamburgs” and the “Dachverband freie darstellende Künste Hamburg e.V.” and is supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Rudolf Augstein Foundation and the Claussen-Simon Foundation.
The workshop also receives crucial support by Fundus Theatre.
is a digital artist from Hamburg. She is a founding member of the artist collective »Blutende Freischwimmer*innen«, feels most at home in gray windows and, as a visual hacker, explores immersive illusory spaces.
Her artworks as a creative coder and performing artist is shown throughout various festivals and theatres in Germany and abroad. Weaving in motion capture and photogrammetry with live art she created at the Theatre of Research FUNDUS THEATER in Hamburg the transgenerational workshops. For the participatory citizen project »Stadttheater« at the LICHTHOF Theater Hamburg she designed and performed the VR theatre piece »Raum im Kopf« and with her collective and young hackers she developed an AI that has learned what happiness is and now shares it with the visitors. As part of her fellowship at the Academy for Theater and Digitality in Dortmund, she overcomes and extends the singular experience in virtual worlds, both technically and narratively. Together with the »NODE Forum for Digital Arts« and the »studioNaxos« she designed the collaborative virtual space »GreenHouse NAXOS«.
is a digital media and performance artist from Kazan, Russia with a Diploma in State Administration and a Master in Transition Studies at JLU Giessen. Afterwards, Alla studied digital media and performance at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, Tongji University and Athens School of Fine Arts. For Alla’s academic and artistic work, Alla won various grants including Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe, Mosbach Stiftung, DAAD and STIBET, residencies in China, Greece, Japan and Rwanda. In 2015, together with Alexander Traka, they founded the technologically advanced interdisciplinary music and performance project BBB_.
Alla’s feminist gaze focuses on our shared visions of the future, the emancipatory potentials of digital technology, and narratives for the future of humanity. Alla formally works at the intersection of digital technology, performance and music, developing interactive digital formats and live experiences in VR, AR, XR and web.
allapopp.com
Thu, September 02
05:00 PM CEST
Online | Zoom | Anmeldung unter anja.kerschkewicz@hauptsachefrei.de
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August 23 —
August 26
10:00 AM CEST
Lichthof Theater, Mendelssohnstraße 15, 22761 Hamburg