AR/VR Games | Online Workshop | English | Europe-Mideast-Africa
Description:
We have been closely following global events relating to COVID-19, and we've quickly learned to adapt with new social behaviors. Isolation, disconnection, and social distancing have opened new avenues for remote communication but also forced us to seek alternative ways of being and living together in virtual spaces.
In this workshop, we will dive into and inhabit the multiverse of VRChat, a massive Social VR platform, to create, host and co-host public and private events. Together, we will transform our private homes into fabulous virtual public arenas. We will explore strange hybrid conditions, oscillating between the physical and virtual while collectively performing deeply architectural rituals such as sleeping, dining or even taking a bath.
The workshop will include extended reality methods to expand our physical boredom and allow ourselves and our familiar living spaces to interface with the unfamiliar, weird and exotic other of the virtual dimension.
Concentrating on exploring digital interventions in both the physical and the virtual realities, the workshop will provide a theoretical and practical overview as well as insights into the idea of the Virtual as Public and Social Spaces and a stage to perform identity. In this sense, we seek to experiment with time-based embodied experiences to explore new ways of inhabiting both our bodies and our most-used intimate spaces in new, performative ways, transcending ourselves into pixels and bytes as we allow our virtual friends to inhabit our physical bedrooms, and perhaps even end up hosting dinner parties together.
Key Words:
Social VR,Collaborative,Virtual Happening,Real-Time Event
Required Skills:
beginner unity, beginner blender
Required Software:
Unity Hub version (2019.4.22f), VRCHAT SDK, VRChat, Meshroom, Blender, Twitch + Discord, OBS (Open Broadcast Software)
Required Hardware:
VR Headset (highly recommended), PC, Smartphone or Camera, WebCam, home accessaries
Maximum number of participating students:
10-15
In this workshop, we will dive into and inhabit the multiverse of VRChat, a massive Social VR platform, to create, host and co-host public and private events. Together, we will transform our private homes into fabulous virtual public arenas. We will explore strange hybrid conditions, oscillating between the physical and virtual while collectively performing deeply architectural rituals such as sleeping, dining or even taking a bath.
The workshop will include extended reality methods to expand our physical boredom and allow ourselves and our familiar living spaces to interface with the unfamiliar, weird and exotic other of the virtual dimension.
Concentrating on exploring digital interventions in both the physical and the virtual realities, the workshop will provide a theoretical and practical overview as well as insights into the idea of the Virtual as Public and Social Spaces and a stage to perform identity. In this sense, we seek to experiment with time-based embodied experiences to explore new ways of inhabiting both our bodies and our most-used intimate spaces in new, performative ways, transcending ourselves into pixels and bytes as we allow our virtual friends to inhabit our physical bedrooms, and perhaps even end up hosting dinner parties together.
Schedule:
Jun 28 - Jul 3
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Day 1 / Jun 28
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Day 2 / Jun 29
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Day 3 / Jun 30
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Day 4 / Jul 1
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Day 5 / Jul 2
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Day 6 / Jul 3
Instructors:
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Stefan Maier University of Innsbruck Institute for experimental architecture ./studio3,university assistantStefan Maier (Austria) is an architect, visual artist, and researcher. He graduated in architecture at the University of Innsbruck. His body of work reaches from hybrid-reality drawings, physical installations, to scenography, screenings and interactive experiences and received national and international resonance. His research interests focus on the interplay between virtual and physical environments and tries to provoke a non-binary understanding. Currently, he is teaching at ./studio3, Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. -
Dominic Schwab ./studio3, Institute for Experimental Architecture, University of Innsbruck,Univ. Assistant & PhD CandidateDominic Schwab is a speculative architect based in Vienna, Austria. He is working, teaching and researching on the threshold of architecture, visual culture and immersive media, adressing techno-philosophical questions of our future worlds. His work has been screened, exhibited and awarded at group shows & film festivals across Europe. Currently he holds the position of a PhD Candidate & University Assistant at the Institute for Experimental Architecture ./studio3 at the University of Innsbruck. -
Cenk Güzelis University of Innsbruck Institute for experimental architecture ./studio3,University AssistantCenk Güzelis is an Innsbruck-based architect and a new media artist who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Currently, he is a Ph.D. Candidate and Assistant Professor at the Institute for Experimental Architecture./studio3 in Innsbruck University. He worked in Computer-Aided Manufacturing at the Platform for Analog and Digital Production, Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and led various LIDAR and Animation Workshops in Denmark and Austria. His artistic projects and teachings consider the importance of time-based media and XR technologies as embodied interfaces that can challenge the notion of cognition by interfacing human and non-human entities to define another sense of self and to develop a new perception of materiality www.cenkguzelis.com -
uwe brunner University of Innsbruck Institute for experimental architecture ./studio3,Univ. Ass. / Phd CandidateUwe Brunner is an architect and researcher. Since 2019 he is a faculty member at the ./studio3, Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. His current research focuses on digital counter aesthetics and the essayistic dimension of extended reality environments.