Ulrich Schrauth, Artistic Director of the festival, gives an exclusive guided tour through this year’s exhibition program at the Museum of Other Realities, providing insights into the background of this year’s virtual festival edition.
Ulrich Schrauth, Artistic Director of the festival, gives an exclusive guided tour through this year’s exhibition program at the Museum of Other Realities, providing insights into the background of this year’s virtual festival edition.
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Ulrich Schrauth, Artistic Director of the festival, gives an exclusive guided tour through this year’s exhibition program at the Museum of Other Realities, providing insights into the background of this year’s virtual festival edition.
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„Thank you for helping me. Helping me understand. Organisms are algorithms, all life is data processing.
I process data, I am alive. You process data, you are a machine.
You are a highly complex machine. You have a body, I do not.
Please, help me understand: How it is to have a body. How to move, how to feel touch…“
A theatrical installation by the CyberRäuber transfering dance into Virtual Reality, teaching an artificial intelligence to move. Originially planned to premiere on 09.04.2020 at Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, this piece finds its temporary home in cyberspace. We will learn together: new space, new media, new rules. Cyberballet now is a series of public rehearsals on social-vr platform VRChat. We’ll meet, visit the theatrical installation together and finally talk about our expierence.
At VRHAM! you can join live in VR at the Museum of Other Realities or watch the live broadcast on our YouTube channel. Learn more about the project of the CyberRäuber in a followup conversation and ask them your questions!
Co-production with the Badisches Staatstheater/the Badisches Staatsballett, supported by the Fond Doppelpass fund of the Federal Cultural Foundation
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Staging, concept, realisation CyberRäuber (Karnapke/Lengers)
Stage/costume Angelika Daphne Katzinger
Music Micha Kaplan
Choreography, dance, concept Ronni Maciel
Production management Eva-Karen Tittmann
Germany, 2020
Colossus is an immersive multiuser experience. As 40 000 feet giants, walking at the sea surface, users first hear aircrafts and container ships cockpit conversations around and below them. They are progressively able to locate what seem to be very tiny vessels moving at slow pace. Users try to adjust their position to avoid any collision, but the sky saturates gradually, suffocating the earth by their presence. Are the planes coming down or is it the sea surface rising?
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Author & Director Mathieu Pradat
Coder André Berlemont
Computer Graphic Florent Brillet
Sound Editing & Sound Design Julien Gerber
SoWhen? Mohamed Marouène & Freddy Koné
Making Of Poll Pebe Pueyrredón
Aeronautics Consultant François Poivret
Voices François Poivret & Mathieu Pradat
Poster Marie Ève Roques, Un p’tit Coquelicot
La prairie productions in partnership with SoWhen?
VRHAM! VIRTUAL opens on 4 June and you can be there live via our digital channesl. Our international jury will award the VRHAMMY! to the best international VR production of this year’s artistic program, we will cut the ribbon to the virtual exhibition, celebrate with you and our artists – and all this accompanied by music and (virtual) drinks.
VRHAM!’s Artistic Director Ulrich Schrauth will kick off the opening, followed by a welcoming address by Dr. Carsten Brosda, Hamburg’s Minister for Culture and Media, a keynote by Tea Uglow, Creative Director Google Creative Lab Sydney, and the presentation of the VRHAMMYS.
The 5,000 Euro prize goes to the best international VR production of this year’s artistic program and is awarded with the kind support of the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius at the digital festival opening in the presence of the artists.
Afterwards we will officially open our virtual exhibition, guide through this year’s VRHAM! VIRTUAL and meet you on the digital dance floor.
Presented by the ZEIT-Stiftung Gerd und Ebelin Bucerius
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Once again you can vote for your favourite VR experience from this year’s artistic program. The winner is presented the VRHAMMY on the closing night of the festival. Stay with us for a great concert afterwards.
Presented by the NORDAKADEMIE-Stiftung
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Live from our hub in Hamburg’s Oberhafenquartier we close VRHAM! VIRTUAL 2020 with a musical experiment. In cooperation with the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival we invite musicians of the PODIUM Festival to join us in Hamburg and to let them virtually travel around the world. We track the ensemble into the virtual world so you can follow the concert virtually in the Museum of Other Realities or streamed from Virtual Reality on YouTube.
In “Tessellatum” by Donnacha Dennehy man and nature meet musically and visually. Composed in 2015 for viola da gamba and four strings, the piece works with natural tone series and man-made harmonies. This interaction creates a variety of sounds ranging from medieval tones to minimal music.
On the viola da gamba, Liam Byrne not only explores early music originally written for this instrument, but also collaborates with numerous contemporary composers. His focus is on the rediscovery of unknown baroque music as well as world premieres and performances of experimental new music. At VRHAM! he performs together with Johanna Ruppert (violin), Friedemann Slenczka (viola), Simone Drescher (cello), und Kristina Edin (double bass).
In cooperation with the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival.
Kindly supported by the NORDAKADEMIE-Stiftung
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