This seminar provides an understanding of immersive media and virtual reality (VR) from an artistic perspective. The aim is to clarify basic concepts, from virtual reality to augmented reality (AR) to extended reality (XR), and to place them in their historical context. Using artistic examples, we will discuss and explore how immersive technologies create a spatial experience in which the boundaries between the physical and virtual worlds merge and a strong sense of presence can be generated.
We will explore and discuss the differences to conventional images, as in a 360° environment, viewers are no longer distant observers, as they are in front of a ‘flat image’, but become part of the work, a development that was already evident in the panorama of the 19th century (Robert Barker's ‘Panorama’, patent 1787).
We will discuss how this inclusion of the audience in the image presents new aesthetic and receptive challenges.

- regular participation

- independent active participation

- Preparation of exercises

Studierende sollten die notwendigen Werkzeuge mitbringen, idealerweise ein Laptop , Smartphone oder Ähnliches