Use of the "body figure" in AR and VR artworks

 

This seminar is for anyone interested in creating artistic works related to augmented or virtual reality.

 

 

In the context of the digital arts, tools are increasingly accessible and flexible and reveal a multitude of representations of the body, human and non-human, digital actors of all kinds, protagonists of new narratives, intertwining "the physical self and the digital self ".

 

But who are these characters and what does it mean to bring them to the world?

 

If we want to go beyond the playful or technical exploration of tools and claim to be part of the field of art, many questions and many choices are essential to our intelligences and sensibilities with respect to these new actors of art works, involved in the VR and AR universes:

 

On what basis do we define their behavior? Their aesthetic appearance? Their symbolic evocation potential? Their quality of presence? How do they communicate and / or interact? Which body? What form? Which role? What dramaturgy?

 

 

In a collaborative context between the participants, the course intends to:

 

 

- Support the development of concepts for AR and/ or VR related works (installation, video, static or performative work)

- Carry out exercises and reflections based on the work of each participant

- Perform analysis of examples of works

- Promote discussion, make use of simulations and offer practical coaching

- Study the methodological processes of each

- Foster the refinement of a holistic methodology of digital arts

 

Regular presence and active participation required

- Project development within the framework of the workshop

- The course is held mainly in English and partly in German.

Two more dates to be announced (13:00 - 18:00).