Workshop Digitale Festivallounge
A cooperative project between the TU Dresden’s IXLAB, the University of Fine Arts Dresden and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden
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How do people meet online? How can you design virtual spaces that allow chance encounters and meaningful exchange? How does the design and structure, the reality or unreality of the virtual world influence our behaviour online? And most importantly: how do you teach your online avatar to dance? Students of the TU Dresden and the University of Fine Arts Dresden (HfBK) worked on these and other questions in a two-week workshop given by the Immersive Experience Lab (IXLAB.io) at the TU Dresden facilitated by Matthew McGinity, assistant professor for immersive media design at the TU, and in collaboration with Stefanie Wenner (professor for applied theatre sciences and production dramaturgy at the HfBK), Fast Forward curator Charlotte Orti von Havranek and Ilja Mirksy, dramaturge for digital media in theatre and doctoral candidate at the Zürich University of the Arts. During the course of this year’s festival, we will present the discoveries the students made, the experiments they tried out and the suggestions they’d like to make to the festival guests.
Leitung Matthew McGinity (Jun. Prof Immersive Media Design, TU Dresden), Ilja Mirsky (Universität Tübingen, Züricher Hochschule der Künste), Stefanie Wenner (Prof. Dr. für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft und Productionsdramaturgie HfBK), Charlotte Orti von Havranek (Kuratorin des Fast Forward Festivals)
With Studierenden der TU Dresden sowie der HfBK Dresden
In Co-operation with Technischen Universität Dresden, Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Dresden, Staatsschauspiel Dresden