A journey deep into the subconscious, Aska is an animated 360° short that unfolds in a colorful surreal world populated with the artist’s individual mythology. It is narrated in ten one-minute segments, each with its own story and meaning.
Running time 10 minutes
Lead Artist /Director Dominik Turan
Slovakia, 2021
In cooperation with the Institut für theatrale Zukunftsforschung am Zimmertheater Tübingen and supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, two artists or artistic teams have the opportunity to continue developing their projects, guided by internationally renowned mentors. The teams, selected by a national jury (Peer Mia Ripberger/ Artistic Director at the ITZ; Sabrina Schmidt/ Festival Dramaturg VRHAM; Markus Selg/ Artist, Stage Designer, Musician) will present the results at the VRHAM! FORWARD discourse programme from 4 to 12 June 2021 in Hamburg.
With VRHAM! FORWARD, VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival has invited artists, creative teams and experts to experiment with virtual and augmented reality in the field of performing arts, to discuss and discover current developments. The programme, supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, in cooperation with Institut für theatrale Zukunfsforschung (ITZ) am Zimmertheater Tübringen, included discourse events, panels, workshops and residencies. For our panels and keynotes we could gain well-known national and international speakers. You can check out the panels here:
VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival is offering a full-day workshop on Virtual Reality in the performing arts in Hamburg’s creative quarter Oberhafenquartier. The workshop is aimed at colleagues from the performing arts throughout Germany and is completely free of charge. With Mario Simon from the Akademie für Digitalität und Theater Dortmund and Lena Biresch, Virtual Experience Designer, VRHAM! has found the perfect experts to ease possible fears of the technology, to provide the participants with practical basic knowledge and to find out together how they can integrate Virtual Reality into thier own artistic practice. Ulrich Schrauth, Artistic Director of VRHAM! and Immersive Programmer of the London Film Festival, will also give an overview of what’s going on internationally in the field of immersive media and performative arts.
The VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival goes on tour, first stop Moscow: In cooperation with the Stanislavsky Electrotheater Moscow and in the framework of the Year of Germany in Russia, virtual and augmented reality artworks from all over the world were presented in the immersive exhibition ULTRAMARIN from 22 to 25 April, which deals with the topic of water.
The exhibition concept based on the VRHAM! programme 2020. The festival programme includes works by Adrien M & Claire B, Sandro Bocci, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Christoph Monchalin, Olivia Mc Gilchrist, Can Büyükberber and Michelle-Marie Letelier.
With the first VRHAM! ON TOUR exhibition curated by Ulrich Schrauth and produced by Irina Tokareva, VRHAM! wants to promote the immersive art from Hamburg and foster international networking in this field. Further exhibitions are to follow.
UTRAMARIN was supported by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media, Institut Français/Russia, Italian Embassy/Russia, Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium/Russia. Technical partners are Film XR and Great Gonzo Studio.
REAL-IN aims at exploring crossroads of cultural, audiovisual and creative sectors for immersive and interactive proposals, exploiting 3D scanning technologies combined to XR settings. We’ll build a playground for prototyping collective scenarios to boost new participatory approaches and innovative user experiences for the Creative and Cultural Industries and their audiences. REAL-IN will activate multidisciplinary synergies in a co-creation process between creatives, coders, creative industries, with the result to break silos between creative sectors. REAL-IN launches 4 Open Calls, covering 4 different artistic challenges: Interactive Arts, Music, Performing Arts, Fashion & Design and is looking for creative teams. Besides VRHAM! as the partner for visual arts and interactive design, REAL-IN is an alliance made of another major EU festival, La Manufacture (performing arts) in Avignon, two innovative cultural institutions in two major European cities and world ranked events in creative industries MEET Digital Culture Center (fashion & design) in Milan, ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art and Culture (music) in Barcelona), and an award winning audiovisual technology company Dark Euphoria located in one of the major European audiovisual hubs in Marseille.
REAL-IN aims at exploring crossroads of cultural, audiovisual and creative sectors for immersive and interactive proposals, exploiting 3D scanning technologies combined to XR settings. REAL-IN will activate multidisciplinary synergies in a co-creation process between creatives, coders, creative industries, with the result to break silos between creative sectors.
As part of the first Open Call for interactive art, one artwork was selected by an international jury for the REAL-IN Residency. The REAL-IN Convention aims to bring together artists, producers, cultural institutions, policy makers, industry experts and researchers to explore the potentials of 3D-scanning and volumetric capture technologies for interactive and digital arts.
Besides VRHAM! as the partner for visual arts and interactive design, REAL-IN is an alliance made of another major EU festival, La Manufacture (performing arts) in Avignon, two innovative cultural institutions in two major European cities and world ranked events in creative industries MEET Digital Culture Center (fashion & design) in Milan, ESPRONCEDA Institute of Arts & Culture (music) in Barcelona, and an award winning audiovisual technology company Dark Euphoria located in one of the major European audiovisual hubs in Marseille.
Within the framework of the EU call for proposals “Bridging Culture and Audiovisual Content through Digital”, REAL IN co-initiated by VRHAM! was one of eight projects to receive funding.