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 Khôra, Andric Spaeth, AΦE, Carrie Chen, Gabriel Massan and Letta Shtohryn (11:00-22:00) as well as several workshops with Mark Coniglio, Teresa Fernández-Pello and Vali Lalioti (10-13:30). From 13:00, lecture performances and discussions with artists and researchers such as Irini Mirena Papadimitriou (13:00), Mark Coniglio (13:45), Marlon Barrios Solano (14:30), Gabriel Massan and Carrie Chen (15:15) and Esteban Lecoq, Vali Lalioti and Jona Wolf (17:00) will take place in the Great Hall at Festspielhaus Hellerau. In exciting talks and presentations as well as a concluding joint discussion (18:30), the relationships between technology, space, human and non-human bodies as well as the opportunities and risks of ‘Extended Reality’ (XR) will be addressed. To round off the day, Silke Grabinger will present her reminiscence of the legendary performance ‘I like America and America likes me’ by Joseph Beuys with SPOTSHOTBEUYS (20:00) at the Festspielhaus Hellerau.

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

Overview of the program

Ecksalon Ost
10:00 – 13:30: ‘Introduction to Isadora Software‘ by Mark Coniglio Workshop 2

Ecksalon West
10:00 – 11:30: ‘Your 5 last random Google searches say more about you than your zodiac sign’ by Teresa Fernández-Pello Workshop 2
12:00 – 13:30: ‘The Art and Tech of Creative Robotics‘ by Vali Lalioti Workshop 2

Nancy-Spero-Saal
11:00 – 23:00: Film Screenings
Andrea Khora, Gabriel Massan, Carrie Chen, Andric Spaeth

Treppenauge West
11:00 – 20:00: Installation ‘0AR’ by AΦE in two hour slots 

Studio West
11:00 – 22:00: Installation ‘Chuly? Chuly’ by Letta Shtohryn

Foyer West 1.OG.
19:00 – 23:00: Installation „Bauhaus Time Traveler” by Marlon Barrios Solano 

Süd Empore
12:00: ‘Morphogenic Angels‘ by KEIKEN

Großer Saal
13:00 – 18:30: Lecture-Performances and Discussions
13:00: Lecture by Irini Mirena Papadimitriou ‘Technological Embodiments’
13:45: Lecture by Mark Coniglio ‘The Importance of Being Interactive’
14:30: Lecture-Performance with Marlon Barrios Solano ‘Duets in Latent Space’
15:30: Online-Lecture by Gabriel Massan ‘Mapping out reparation: Worldbuilding as a practice’
15:55: Online-Lecture by Teresa Fernández-Pello ‘High-tech Mysticism’
16:20: Online-Lecture by Carrie Chen ‘Avatars of Memory: Exploring Ancestry, Productive Uncanny, and the Sublime’
17:00: Lecture by Esteban Fourmi ‘XR Dance Experience Creations with VR, AR and AI’
17:30: Lecture by Jona Wolf ‘Space Invaders- Exploring the Intersection of Digital and Physical Spaces’
18:00: Lecture by Vali Lalioti ‘The Art and Tech of Creative Robotics’
18:30: Closing talks with participants

Nancy-Spero-Saal
20:00: StopShotBeuys by Silke Grabinger

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.

‘Black Box White Cube XR’ is supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.