This year, the Night of Science in Düsseldorf will already take place for the fourth time. After a successful participation in 2019, the Mirevi team will again present several of their current projects.
The goal of the Goethe project was to digitally resurrect one of the most influential German poets of all time. By means of modern technology, we created a virtual image of Goethe’s life mask, offering visitors a novel way to approach the poet.
In collaboration with Kainkollektiv and Sputnik, we created a digital monastery, growing as a hybrid of online exhibition and archive about the history of Kassia and the feminist movement.
The AR App ‟Feen” (Fairies) was developed by the MIREVI team of the HSD in collaboration with the Ballett am Rhein. The project was part of a joint participation in the world’s first AR Biennial, hosted by the museum Kunstpalast/NRW Forum Düsseldorf.
The dance piece and choreographic installation Spheres is an artistic research project at the intersection of dance, philosophical discourse on bodies and agency. Five spherical robots move seemingly independently alongside three dancers in the exhibition space and open the dialogue on connections and physicalities of different agents. The installation focuses on the exchange between human and other beings and on the question of how movement can be transformed within and through different bodies by decomposing interaction principles and artistic discourse.
In the interactive participatory dance performance 1250 Mb/s produced by fabien prioville dance company and technically developed by MIREVI, the audience enters into a physical game with the dancers, making the process of data collection tangible.
Challenges and possibilities for the production of digital performance art were considered in the AR dance piece kin_ developed by the MIREVI team. The interactive mixed reality dance performance is a piece with up to three moving avatars and audience, developed for augmented reality to download as an app on the user's own device from the AppStore.
How should the museum of the future look like? One thing is clear: museums and cultural institutions are undergoing changes and digitality is playing one of the key roles in the process!
Let's be honest: Corona has a firm grip on us, on research, development, but also on our art and cultural productions. With conferences, productions and festivals moving into the virtual, we are eagerly seeking ways to enter into deeper exchange, and to find new forms of interactions that also embrace the needs of arts and culture. The questions that arise not only from social distance but also from digitalization, the challenge of transferring the body, the art scene and commemorative culture into the digital, are discussed in the following contributions, which have all been created in our virtual 3D studio.
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the FFT Düsseldorf were guests at the MIREVI lab of the HSD. With both cultural partners we develop new digital concepts and fundamentals of collaboration. As part of the city’s public life, our goal is to carry on joint research focusing on digital transformation and innovative switching technology. The digital foyer is designed to serve as an interface between house and visitors as well as between institution and city. A digital room that extends the theatre and the opera. A gathering place. A window to the city.
The advancing technology allows new forms of contemporary art expressions which, however,
require a large set of skills to be developed and therefore involve a team with diverse
backgrounds. In this paper, we present implementation details and the artistic background of the
art piece is a rose that was developed and exhibited in 2019. Based on this example and our
previous experience of work on different art applications, we provide an insight into the
interdisciplinary work between artists and developers.
After 2 years of workshops, residencies, performances, exhibitions and talks, the EU project Moving Digits came to an end, leaving behind numerous valuable traces of interdisciplinary collaboration between dancers, choreographers, technicians and designers. The project aimed at their empowerment with further tools for expression, archival and analysis, and in terms of audience, at enhancing its understanding and engagement in contemporary dance performances and allowing to experience dance in an augmented way.
The work ‘is a rose’ was created by artist Charlotte Triebus in cooperation with the Mirevi Lab and is deals with the interspecies communication between a romantic surveillance state and the actor-network theory. It addresses topics such as agency of animate and inanimate objects and the possibly overcome dichotomy of nature and technology, thereby revealing an equality of agents in a performative framework. Can we concede that each of these agents is capable of a behavior coming close to action?
Can performers, audience and technology interact with each other in a symbiotic manner? Charlotte Triebus has been working on answering this question for the past three years. With ‘Spheres’ (2020), the artist created a choreographic installation as an interface between intimacy, communication, and artificial intelligence. It enables two performers, up to twelve intelligent spheres, and the visitors to interact with as well as react to each other.
The project aims at developing a contemporary dance performance complemented with a digital layer that dialogues with the dancers.