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berlin school of VR (Virtual Reality)

back to school:

Friday, Sept 13, from 5.00pm

Saturday, Sept 14, from 12.00pm

Allerstraße 15, 12049 Berlin-Neukölln

program sneak peak

a) WIN a VR CRASH COURSE

b) OPEN CALL:

TAKE PART IN THE FIRST VR-CASTING FOR OUR NAZI HORROR B-MOVIE IN VR (#newproject)*

"Prompting the Future"

May 24, 20024. Discussing Space (I hope analogue or virtual) at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and more specifically the School of Design, Film and Art. "Prompting the Future - Art Schools between Digitality and Society"

Shtatëmbëdhjetë (17)

Kosovo, here I come. Thank you, Foundation 17 in Pristina (Kosovo) for inviting me (1week workshop + talking about what I do is hopefully what Ligjёratё publike translates as. I will try and work with spatial.io and am looking forward to explorations...

1e9, Festival der Zukunft

secretly wishing to discuss things with speakers with additive manufacturing or racing background but I think I may be put with VR people somehow... Let's see. Thanks for having me, Alex Wolf!

"perpetual beta"

during their GLOBAL (!) Perpetual Beta conference, the Goethe Institute came to visit Konstantin Bez (kos_tja) and me (kathav) in our world "Brecht into the Metaverse" built by Roman Miletitch (romamile). We showed them around. It went well. My avatar is by Jorror. Konstantin's is by INVR.SPACE based on charcoal sketches by RambaZamba Atelier. Feb 2024, in VRChat

It's A Book

you can buy it at transcript or drop by in September '24 in my new studio in Berlin during Berlin Art Week to a) take a look at the book b) buy the book c) take a look at some art work in the studio d) walk past the studio to hang out at Tempelhofer Feld.

Hardcopies should hit bookstores from late May 2024.

PIlot!

we got development funding for a series VR-IRL-VR-IRL etc from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. We'll be filming a pilot! Quick, where's that how to write a TV series guide, haha lol. So serious though.

See teaser below: Brecht Into The Metaverse

Humboldt Futures

Workshop with rather awesome people at

Humboldt University Berlin, Cluster of Excellence. Matters of Activity (Berlin). Curated by Dr. Tom Lilge (gamelab.berlin) and Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi + Prof. Frans Vogelaar ( Hybrid Space Lab).

January 12, 2024

re:publica 2023: "how to move public money (fast)" TEASER

made in Berlin (June 2023)

presented in Hamburg (September 2023)

Kunstforum, #290

curator Boris Magrini wrote in his article "Kunst und das Metaverse heute - ein Wettbewerbsfeld" about artists working in virtual environments. He also discussed my map "dreams about girls" in VRChat. I mean Kunstforum!!! So cool.

Lost and Found: "Sequence of a Horse in Motion" Teaser

Lost and Found: "...dreams about girls" Teaser

venice, delegation journey

presenting "Brecht Into The Metaverse" teaser at Venice Immersive (Venice International Film Festival 2023) at the German booth, thanks to Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

diversion (but no u-turn): www.Virtual-architects.org

broadening scopes in 2023.

www.virtual-architects.org

looking for designers (VRChat)... please get in touch!

Internationaler museumstag: Letzte generation

when in doubt, it's always good to look at statistics. collaboration with the creative forces of LETZTE GENERATION to devise a performance at museums in Germany. Thank you ICOM Deutschland Young Professionals und Museums For Future Germany for match-making!

21.05.2023, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Europäisches Hansemuseum Lübeck, Museum Ludwig Köln, GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Deutsches Hygienemuseum Dresden, Museum für Kommunikation Nürnberg, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Kunsthalle Rostock

exhibition: collective worldbuilding - Art in the metaverse

prints and objects from "...dreams about girls" will be part of the exhibition at HEK Basel group exhibition.

Opening:

02.06.2023, Basel (Switzerland)

cash: brecht into the metaverse at re:publica

Dates:

05.-07.06.2023, Berlin

a maze: Brecht into the metaverse

searching for inspiration and collaborators at A MAZE Berlin.

12.05.2023, Silent Green Berlin

site inspection: brecht into the metaverse

People of Oberschöneweide visit our construction site in VR and tell us their wishes for spatial and interaction design.

Date:

06.05.2023, Michael-Brückner-Platz, Berlin-Oberschöneweide

ON TOUR: POSTcards from the metaverse

from autumn 2022: Trip Report 18 Postcards from the Metaverse. Book through assistenz@katharinahaverich.de

Dates:

30.11.2022, Stadtwerkstatt Kamenz

21.02.2023, Schloss Genshagen

DOK EXCHANGE XR SHOWCASE

"XR creators will present their cutting-edge projects in development in front of an online audience, followed by feedback by more than 20 experts from the fields of research, funding, distribution, art and technology."

Pitching with Eric Nikodym and Lenn Blaschke.

20 October 2022

vr goes tv: Pixel party

from Oct 26, ARD Kultur brings out a new magazine about digital pop culture, "Pixel Party". Contents: Metaverse, AI, AR & NFTs (what a blend). Happy to be featured with my work and even more happy about hanging with the pop culture kids.

Off to buy a TV now.

Artistic Practice in the metaverse*

Katharina Haverich and Fernanda Parente are part-time lecturers at University of the Arts Berlin

Winter Semester 2022/23

*The term metaverse was coined by Neal Stephenson

in his sci-fi novel "Snow Crash" (1992)

Acting for the metaverse* (101)

1/2 day workshop by Katharina Haverich and Fernanda Parente at Prof. Marion Hirte's seminar Free and Experimental Theatre for acting students at University of the Arts Berlin

June 2022

*The term metaverse was coined by Neal Stephenson

in his sci-fi novel "Snow Crash" (1992)