Entries by Christine Wegerle

Project funding

Within the framework of the EU call for proposals “Bridging Culture and Audiovisual Content through Digital”, the cultural project REAL IN, co-initiated by VRAHM!, has received funding as one of eight projects. REAL IN is a cross-cultural and cross-sectoral research project of VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival (Hamburg), La Manufacture (Avignon), MEET Digital Culture […]

Helo Award

INVR.SPACE has been awarded the Halo Award in the category “Special New Horizons” at VRDays Europe for the social platform “LFF – THE EXPANSE”, a variation of the META SPACE VR Platform developed together with Ulrich Schrauth and Anja Cambria for the BFI London Film Festival 2020. The Virtual Reality Full Service Studio, based in […]

Festival experiment with a future

The four-day VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival ended in the evening with the People’s Choice Award ceremony (winner: Gravity VR) and a concert in cooperation with the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. “Our experiment to move the festival for international VR art into virtual space has been successful”, said Ulrich Schrauth. The artistic director is delighted […]

New Possibilities

On 7 June, VRHAM! VIRTUAL ends musically: In cooperation with the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (SHMF) and with the support of the NORDAKADEMIE-Stiftung, the work Tessellatum by Donnacha Denney will be performed at the festival hub by viola da gamba player Liam Byrne together with the musicians Johanna Ruppert (violin), Friedemann Slenczka (viola), Simone Drescher (violoncello) […]

The World in Perspective

The VRHAMMY AWARD 2020 of this year’s digital edition of VRAHM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival goes to the VR work The Key by Celine Tricart. 360° film Daughters of Chibok received a special mention. During the virtual opening ceremony at the Museum of Other Realities, the VRHAMMY Award for the best VR work in […]

VRHAM! Opening

On Thursday, 4 June, the third VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival will start as the digital edition VRHAM! VIRTUAL. The festive opening with guests from Hamburg and all over the world will take place in the virtual Museum of Other Realities and will be streamed live on the VRHAM! YouTube channel.  Ulrich Schrauth, Artistic Director of […]

Affect perception

New World by Kerenza Harris and Alessio Grancini has been selected from the Open Call on the current situation due to COVID 19 for this year’s digital festival edition VRHAM! VIRTUAL. The experience will be shown in the festival section VRCinema. VRHAM! VIRTUAL: Tell us a bit about your artistic approach to the pandemic. KERENZA […]

Interactive Experience

The short film Gravity VR turned into an exciting VR work, which was shown at VRHAM! VIRTUAL in the VREXHIBITION section. Fabito Rychter about new artistic challenges: VRHAM! VIRTUAL: What was exciting for you about making a film about falling? FABITO RYCHTER: Falling is usually a common nightmare people have. For me it was exciting […]

Pushing the Boundaries

The experience Flow by Yao Wang is based on the Chinese fable “The Peach Blossom Spring”, in which a fisherman meets people who live completely apart from the rest of the world and its society and politics.An interview with the artist: VRHAM! VIRTUAL: What about this story attracted you? YAO WANG: Nowadays, everything about life […]

Against forgetting

The project Daughters of Chibok, which was awarded the Golden Lion for the best VR story at the Venice Festival in 2019, is running in the VREXHIBITON section. The Nigerian director Joel ‘Katchi Benson takes the audience with him to the place of action: VRHAM! VIRTUAL: How and when did you come up with the […]