Digital Communities

IMMENSIVA Residence Projects
Lucía Redondo Rubio, Mathieu Preux, Mila Moleman, Sammie de Vries, Zalán Szakács, Clea T. Waite, Jared Christopher Kelley, Max Orozco, Anirudhan Iyengar, Dominic Schwab, Helvijs Savickis, Julia Obleitner, Nuño de la Serna Vicente, Mohsen Hazrati

In May and June of 2021, ESPRONCEDA, Institute of Art & Culture, organized a new edition of the international residences IMMENSIVA. This year we collaborated with institutions in 12 cities worldwide to produce a program of pre-residences and a final residence in Barcelona.
Rave
NAKADIA, VERTERE SOUNDSYSTEM, ALBIRD VS DRIBLA, DISKOTETRIS, ISOSKELES, OXOPOHA

In addition to the ongoing exhibition, the Garden Berlin is presenting a hybrid rave night on Friday September 10th. People from all over the world are invited to join the RAVE SPACE, Berlin’s first virtual 3D club.
Action Tour
MINIWIZ CO., LTD.(TW), Taipei Urban Intelligence Center (TW), Peppercorns Interactive Media Art Co., LTD (TW), Roboenter Co., LTD (TW)

To cope with the impact of Covid-19, a scientific and efficient action in the digital world must be taken. The Taipei Urban Intelligence Center has developed a digital system that can quickly respond to the risk landscape, people flow, and medial resources across different parts of Taipei by integrating live streaming and data instantly. It also informs the policies of the government.
IMPAKT Workshop: Face and body filters
Yun Lee and Jonathan Reus, from iii, instrumentinventors.org, The Hague (NL)

This second workshop is about VJ-ing and focuses on the creation of video backgrounds and other video effects to use in your performance. With the use of software like Zoom, OBS and Snap Camera, we can create our own virtual backgrounds, digital masks, video compilations and even perform live coding and VJ sets. IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], in collaboration with Ars Electronica and the European Media Art Platform (EMAP), organizes two workshops where you can familiarize yourself with these new tools and platforms and start using them to build your own online performance sets.
IMPAKT Workshop: VJ-ing in Zoom
Jeroen Witjes (IMPAKT) Oneseconds (NL), Sabrina Verhage (NL)

This second workshop is about VJ-ing and focuses on the creation of video backgrounds and other video effects to use in your performance. With the use of software like Zoom, OBS and Snap Camera, we can create our own virtual backgrounds, digital masks, video compilations and even perform live coding and VJ sets. IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], in collaboration with Ars Electronica and the European Media Art Platform (EMAP), organizes two workshops where you can familiarize yourself with these new tools and platforms and start using them to build your own online performance sets.
Research-creation 03: IMMERSION & INTERACTION + SCALABILITÉ
Puneet Jain (IN), Rilla Khaled (CA), Gina Hara (HU/CA), Allison Moore (CA), Ludovic Amaru (CA), Gabrielle Couillard (CA), Gaëlle Scali (FR/CA), Atypical (FR)

Umwelten, GAMERella 2021, CLOUD BODIES, SCALABILITÉ
Outer Space and the City: Provocations for the Urbanization of Space Technology
Marie-Pier Boucher (CA), Alice Jarry (CA), Emiliano Gandolfi (IT), Bernard Foing (FR), Guillaume Pascale (CA), Lee Wilkins (CA), Philippe Vandal (CA), Isabelle Boucher (CA)

The interactions between urban environments, technology, and communities are increasingly dependent upon space telecommunication infrastructures. However, these infrastructures are both out of sight and out of reach. What techniques can be deployed to assess, and subvert, their materiality and socio-environmental impact?
The View from Somewhere - Desktop Cinema Performances
Mat Denney (UK), Céleste Mueth (FR), Nella Piatek (PL), Joana Nuñes (PT), Qingyi Ren (CN), Jiayi Liu (CN), Em Argiro (US), Tinayi Ren (CN), Shrey Kathuria (IN), Shenghe Xuan (CN), Melissa Schwarz (DE)

During the UK lockdown of January 2021, the students of MA Interaction Design at UAL’s London College of Communication were isolated in their homes, most of them having only arrived in the country two months previously.
#MemóriasCOVID-19
University of Campinas (UNICAMP) (BR)

In the video the online platform # MemóriasCOVID-19 will be presented and promoted by the teachers Ana Carolina de Moura Delfim Maciel and Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, focusing on the concept of the Platform itself and its curatorial processes.
We Are Data - Experts & Mentors
Mentors: Sabrina Verhage (NL), Jeroen van Loon (NL), Coralie Vogelaar (NL); Experts: Alya AlQarni & Sara Khaled (SA), Areej Mawasi (PS), Evgeny Morozov (BY), Morehshin Allahyari (IR/US), Miriam Rasch (NL), Nagla Rizk (EG)

Click on the website link above to hear more the curated list of experts we engaged to give talks and reflect on 4 main themes relating to data.