Black Box White Cube XR (BBWCXR)

Symposium Day 2

2024/25 HYBRID Biennale Symposium
Photo: Arnaud Deprez

26.10. Panels / Workshops / Lectures / Screenings / Installations

The second day of the two-day symposium ‘Black Box White Cube XR’ (BBWCXR), curated by Maria Chatzichristodoulou and Bika Rebek, offers installations and screenings by Andrea Khora, Gabriel Massan, Carrie Chen, Andric Spaeth and AΦE (25 & 26 October) and workshops by Mark Coniglio, Teresa Pollo and Vali Lalioti (26 October; 10-13:30), lecture performances and discussions with artists, researchers and architects in the large hall of the Festspielhaus: Irini Papadimitriou, Mark Coniglio, Gabriel Massan and Carrie Chen will be there from 13:00 and Esteban Fourmi, Vali Lalioti and Jona Wolf from 17:00 in their joint panel ‘Digital Bodies – Material Fragments’. At the end of the symposium, after a discussion round with all participants and the audience, Silke Grabinger will present her current performance with SPOTSHOTBEUYS (20:00) in the large hall of the Festspielhaus.

Duration: 10:00 – 19:30 h
Language: English with german simultaneous translation

Ecksalon Ost
10:00 – 13:30 Uhr: ‘Introduction to Isadora Software’ Workshop 

Ecksalon West
10:00 – 11:30 Uhr: Workshop with Teresa Pollo
12:00 – 13:30 Uhr: ‘The Art and Tech of Creative Robotics’ Workshop

Süd Empore
12:00 Uhr: Morphogenic Angels by KEIKEN

Großer Saal
13:00 Uhr: Lecture with Irini Papadimitriou ‘Technological Embodiments’
13:45 Uhr: Lecture with Mark Coniglio ‘The Importance of Being Interactive’
14:30 Uhr: Performance Lecture with Marion Barrios Solano 
15:15 Uhr: Lectures with Gabriel ‘Massan Mapping out reparation: Worldbuilding as a practice’, Carrie Chen ‘Avatars of Memory: Exploring Ancestry, Productive Uncanny, and the Sublime’
17:00 Uhr: Lectures with Esteban Fourmi ‘XR Dance Experience Creations with VR, AR and AI’, Vali Lalioti ‘The Art and Tech of Creative Robotics’, Jona Wolf ‘Space Invaders- Exploring the Intersection of Digital and Physical Spaces’
18:30 Uhr: Panel
20:00 Uhr: SpotShotBeauys by Silke Grabinger

Nancy-Spero-Saal

11:00 – 23:00 Uhr: Film Screenings of: „Rapture“ by Andrea Khora, „Unbonded On a Bonded Domain“ by Gabriel Massan, „Myths VR“ + „Primavera“ by Carrie Chen, „Police vs. Society“ by Andric Spaeth

Trennauge West
11:00 – 20:00 Uhr: Installation „0AR“ by AΦE in two hour slots 

Studio West
11:00 – 22:00 Uhr: Installation „Chuly? Chuly“ by Letta Shtohryn

Maria Chatzichristodoulou (aka Maria X) is a curator of live and digital art, Professor of Performance and Digital Transformation and Dean of Research and Knowledge Transfer at the University of the Arts London. She leads the UK Research Council-funded project The Abundance and is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. Bika Rebek is an architect, curator and founder of the Berlin-based architectural practice Some Place Studio. She has taught at Columbia University, Yale University and the Node Curatorial Platform and is co-founder of Hot Air Gallery in New York.

‘Blackbox Whitecube XR’ is supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.