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The website www.school-of-vr.org is updated and has a new booking system: you can now book courses to gain basic VR literacy. In Berlin or remote. In German or English. In Simple German or Sign Language. Let us know what you need and we'll make it happen.
in laval as "Spotlights from Germany"
Grateful for having been part of the German Pavilion at Laval Virtual with my presentation "VR Literacy - Part of the UN's Sustainable Development Goal #4?"
Part of berlin delegation at sxsw
Very excited for the Berlin School of VR to be part of the German delegation that Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH will bring to SXSW Austin (Texas).
Last time SXSW and I were flirting is when I was shortlisted with my VR installation "Sequence of a Horse in Motion" in 2020.
selected for good media lab & good media pitch at dokumentale 2025
From March 6th–8th, the Good Media Lab will bring the project teams together with experts from various fields to develop concrete strategies that go beyond filmmaking. This collaborative work will lay the foundation for the next major event – the Good Media Pitch taking place during Dokumentale on June 12th, where the projects will present their ideas to potential partners from media, business, politics, and civil society.
In addition, projects will have the chance to apply for impact funding through the Good Media Fund.
Thank you for selecting "Brecht into the Metaverse"
Virtual weapons (Brecht fragments #1 - #8)
During Berlinale 2025. Dialogue-based VR installation "Virtual Weapons" at Berlin School of VR in Berlin-Neukoelln.
Slots ca. 25min, admission between 10 EUR and 249,99 EUR.
Thursday, 13.02.2025
10h Fragment #1
11h Fragment #2
13h Fragment #3
14h Fragment #4
Friday, 14.02.2025
10h Fragment #5
11h Fragment #6
13h Fragment #7
14h Fragment #8
"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
exhibition: collective worldbuilding - Art in the metaverse
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
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.
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)
Art(History) IN VR
Christopher Hotti Böhm at Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venice
With Rostislav Tumanov (Art Historian), Sophie Schmidt (Artist), Moderation: Katharina Haverich
20.03.2021, in VRChat
EXPEDITION-SERIES
VReatherVReffen #1 (sorry, we needed humor at the time)
regular meetings in VRChat with unreal.theater
03.03.2021, 19.30 (UTC+1) onboarding, VRChat (& Twitch)
more dates in 2021: 04.04., 05.05., 06.06., 07.07. etc
WORKSHOP
"Praxisbeispiel Social VR: VRChat"
with unreal.theater
for Performing Arts Programm - Performing Knowledge
03.03.2021, in VRChat
WORKSHOP
Presentation and Virtual Excursion: Social VR - Virtual Spaces for Common Cultural Experiences
with unreal.theater
for Technologie Stiftung
02. + 04.02.2021, in VRChat
TALK
Presentation and talk on Digital Experiencing
annual conference of the Dramaturgische Gesellschaft
24.01.2021, in Mozilla Hubs
WORKSHOP-Series
Virtuelle Bandenbildung - Action Art Workshop (totally alpha)
for Radikale Töchter
17.12.2020, 07.01. + 14.01.2021, in VRChat
Expedition
Exploring Prater Digital - with an audience
with unreal.theater
for Prater Digital
11.12.2020, in Mozilla Hubs