Entries by Christine Wegerle

Sougwen Chung: BODY MACHINE (MERIDIANS)

Sougwen Chung: Body Machine (Meridians) United Kingdom, 2024-2025 Courtesy of the Artist and Studio SCILICET Chinese-Canadian artist Sougwen Chung’s Body Machine (Meridians) is a series of biomimetic explorations. In this digital work, forms are sculpted in air, reflecting the artist’s vision of machines as extensions of living systems. The concept of Meridians is woven throughout as […]

Carl Emil Carlsen: Intangible

Carl Emil Carlsen: Intangible Denmark/Latvia, 2023 Courtesy of the Artist The VR experience Intangible by Danish artist Carl Emil Carlsen investigates the sensation of touching simulated natural phenomena. The multi-sensory work discusses the controversial idea of reconnecting with nature through simulation technologies. While the human relationship with the natural world is in crisis, artificially created nature […]

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Interview with Artist Alexander Reben

The artwork Venice, Twilight by Alexander Reben explores the collaboration between humans and AI in contemporary art making. Alexander Reben’s artworks in the field of AI technology set new standards in the investigation of collaboration between man and machine. The digitally generated series shows a series of paintings created by an AI (= Artificial Intelligence) […]

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Interview with Gabriel Massan

Today we introduce our artists from ULTRAMARIN in Venice – please meet the Brazilian artist Gabriel Massan. He shows three works at once with extraordinary digital landscapes that captivate with their crystalline ephemerality and oscillating amorphous structures. His artistic practice deals with the interdependent relationship between fictional existences and digital environments and the investigation of […]

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Mission Statement: Making society better

Fiona Fritz is a historian and program manager for eCommemoration in the History and Politics Department of the Körber-Stiftung. Since 2018 she has been designing and coordinating international history policy projects and digital formats for young Europeans at the Körber-Stiftung. We spoke with her about the challenges of digitization and the XR History Award. VRHAM!: […]

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Creating digital experiences

Berlin-based artist and curator Manuel Rossner’s work explores the fluid transitions of analog and digital reality. At the German premiere of ULTRAMARIN, which we at VRHAM! are presenting as an umbrella brand, he will be showing his SURPRISINGLY SERIES. We talked to him about challenges and the potential of digital, NFTs and new possibilities in […]

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NFTs. Digital art and digital ownership

Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) continues its commitment to VRHAM! Festival as a partner again this year. We pick up the conversation from DKB Finanzwissen with Anne Schwanz. Anne is co-founder of the gallery Office Impart, which sees itself as a platform for contemporary art. She is also co-founder of the research initiative Art+Tech Report, which looks […]