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In the interactive VR experience The Vanish, one of the cruelest human diseases is brought to life: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS for short. What it means to have to watch your own body gradually disappear is conveyed here via the immersive medium of VR.

Water Organoids is a live cinema performance using an “immersive microscope” to film and project an invisible and counter-intuitive reality of self-organizing water structures. Physical experiments are performed alongside improvising musicians in front of the audience, as a puppetry of an emerging, primitive form of life.

In transreal+, the artists Hannah Wimmer and Maximilian Prag explore how movement and self-experience can be translated into a virtual environment. What parameters can we agree on in our interactions and how do we want to encounter each other in cyberspace? 

DUST TO DUST is a documentary offering an intimate look at Japanese haute couture designer Yuima Nakazato. Blending innovative scientific technologies with traditional material techniques, Nakazato is on a mission to shift fashion from mass production toward a more environmentally respectful approach—an urgent task in an industry notorious for waste and harmful environmental practices.