Showcase
Discover a selection of our showcases here:
A Dance by Dschungel Vienna and TANZKOMPLIZEN
Date: 23.-26.06.2020
Location: Dschungel Vienna
„Something has changed. We have changed.“
Dschungel Wien
We are not afraid
What makes us angry? And are we even allowed to be? Why are we fighting? And where do all these feelings come from? When transitioning from a child to a teenager, emotional outbursts and mood swings are part of daily life. This can be very frightening and unsettling. How can you get along better with yourself and your environment during this phase? We pack up our tent, leave our smartphones at home and spend a night in the forest. We enter a different world and we are confronted with our fears and dreams. In the end, a bright light beckons us. A sigh of relief. Something has changed. We have changed.
A play about overcoming fear, risky ventures and new experiences that make children strong.
Team
Experimental Media / St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences – Markus Wintersberger
Links
Exploring the Future of Current Challenges with Augmented and Virtual Reality
Date: 27.-30.4.2020
Time: 13:30-14:30
Location: St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
„Digital collaboration, continuous innovation and the augmentation of reality are major buzzwords of our times.“
XChange Reality
Conference & Hackathon
Streaming Session III – XR for Theatre & Animation:
Presentation of “Wearable Theatre” & Paper “Wearable Theatre – Immersive Storytelling and Theatrical VR”
Team
Experimental Media / St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences – Markus Wintersberger, Georg Vogt, Christian Munk, Thomas Wagensommerer, Ulrich Kühn, Julia Püringer
Open Acting Academy Vienna – Marcus Josef Weiss, Colleen Rae Holmes
Links
Musical theatre by netzzeit and Wien Modern
Date: 26.-30.11.2019
Location: Dschungel Wien
„We follow her slightest head movements with which she – equipped with VR glasses and headphones – navigates through the landscapes.“
Dschungel Wien
A journey into a virtual reality of sound and images
The girl pricks herself on the spindle and is gone. Gone are all the voices, the rules and the opportunities. Away with all the questions about sex, away with admonitions and temptations. Away with the dangers of fertility. For a hundred years she winds herself into a world between life and death.
And we travel with her into these virtual realities of sound and images, follow her smallest head movements with which she – equipped with VR glasses and headphones – navigates through the landscapes. In immersive real environment, with her we explore every corner of a sprawling world , in which many birds and insects live, but no mammals or humans.
Sounds from a harp, a virginal and flutes – played by airborne extended – and the words of the narrator guide us into this world and out again.
And for those who have not yet noticed: Sleeping Beauty and her hundred-year sleep inspired us.
Team
Experimental Media / St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences – Markus Wintersberger
Links
Technology, human and applications
Date: 23.-25.10.2019
Location: Talinn, Estland
„Network, discuss and share innovations.“
euroVR
Topic of the Conference
The focus of the annual EuroVR conference is the presentation of new Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) technologies to foster commitments between industry, education and the public sector to advance the development of VR and AR technologies in new, emerging and existing areas. The conference poses a unique opportunity for international key personalities to network, discuss and share innovations around advertisements and research applications.
Team
Experimental Media / St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences – Markus Wintersberger, Georg Vogt, Christian Munk, Thomas Wagensommerer, Ulrich Kühn
Open Acting Academy Vienna – Marcus Josef Weiss, Colleen Rae Holmes
Links
Demonstration des Forschungsprojekts Wearable Theatre
Datum: 17.10.2019
Ort: MIK Warschau
„The Internet as a communication channel is the answer to various problems in theatres.“
MIK
“New Theatre Forms” as a place of free search for new forms of artistic expression in a difficult, complex reality
Demonstration of the research project Wearable Theatre of the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten in Austria and meeting with the project manager Markus Wintersberger, artist for new and experimental media.
You can forget what you have seen in theatre so far. Furniture, neatly arranged in the corners, warm light and classical drama, won by actors. The Wearable Theatre from Austria crosses borders or rather destroys traditional thinking about this art form and thus looks to the future. It is an attempt to combine art and rapidly developing technology and to explore new perspectives and narrative patterns of dramaturgy, for example with Dostoevsky or Camus.
During these unique meetings new areas are explored, including Virtual Reality (VR) for dramatic, narrative and structural potential. The aim is to make the 360° VR medium accessible and usable as an experimental form for literary material. Existential atmospheric narratives were chosen as a starting point for the study. The perspectives of these narratives are combined with flexible variables, using the visual, acoustic and atmospheric potential of 360° VR. You can fasten your seat belt now!
Presentation starts at 19:00
Installation NOMED
Team
Experimental Media / St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences – Markus Wintersberger, Georg Vogt, Christian Munk, Thomas Wagensommerer, Ulrich Kühn
Open Acting Academy Vienna – Marcus Josef Weiss, Colleen Rae Holmes
Links
Inaugural Speech by Olga Tokarszuk
Date: 1.10.2019
Location: Elektoralna 12
„The search for new forms of artistic expression“
Krzysztof Popiołek
Start of a new project at MIK Warsaw
A new international artistic project of the Mazovian Institute of Culture starts. On October 8th, Olga Tokarczuk will give an inaugural speech about the New Theatre Forms series at Elektoralna 12. The programme includes presentations by the team of Wearable Theatre from Austria and the Futurists Foundation from the Netherlands, a performative reading, meetings and discussions. A press conference about the event will take place on 7.10.2019 at 11.00 A.M. at the MIK headquarters.
Reality changes before our eyes and becomes non-linear. Therefore, one cannot tell of the world as used to. The fragmentation of the present, its disorder, the chaos of information and the crisis of spirituality – great challenges in the construction of history. The protagonists do not fight, perhaps they have nothing left to fight. An impersonal and oppressive reality becomes an antagonist and with such an abstracted opponent the fight is, if at all possible, extremely hard. In the face of a world of division and critical thinking, steeped in negativity, any attempt to believe in the concept of utopias seems ridiculous to us.
“The project is an attempt to create a space for creative fermentation, a place where new forms of artistic expression can be freely sought, a place in which complicated and complex reality we participate,” says Krzysztof Popiołek, director and program curator of the project. “I would like it to be a field of intergenerational dialogue between artists from different artistic fields. Another aim is to invite the audience to study the world carefully.” For what? To understand and to tame.
Team
Experimental Media / St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences – Markus Wintersberger
Links
Research for all of us!
Date: 27.09.2019
Time: 15:00-24:00
Place: University of Applied Arts, Vienna
„The main objective of the event is to give every citizen the opportunity to actively participate in science.“
European Researchers‘ Night
Wearable Theatre research project
The research project Wearable Theatre explores the limits of how stories can be told in the age of digitalisation. In the process, the audience is immersed in a new world that expands their perceptual space. As part of the European Researchers’ Night, ÆON and NOMED will be shown as Virtual Reality (VR) installations – two Wearable Theatre prototypes that invite to a virtual encounter with the Vienna Volkstheater.
ÆON
ÆON is a “Wearable Theatre” experiment, which was performed simultaneously on the under and main stage of the Volkstheater as part of the “digitalnatives19” festival and is recreated virtually. The guests could decide autonomously in which form they wanted to experience the theatrical experiment, be it with VR glasses on stage, as theatre guests or as digital witnesses from outside watching the live stream. Every look changed the show.
NOMED
In the immersive VR installation NOMED one experiences an audiovisual and virtual-abstract spatial panorama through VR glasses, based on a photographic survey carried by the Volkstheater. This virtual image of the classical theatre space supports and extends the acoustic experience.
Team
Experimental Media / St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences – Markus Wintersberger, Ulrich Kühn, Thomas Wagensommerer, Christian Munk, Georg Vogt
Open Acting Academy Vienna – Marcus Josef Weiss, Colleen Rae Holmes
Wearable Theatre in the presidential loge at Volkstheater Vienna
Date: 14.09.2019
Location: Volkstheater, Vienna
„Vienna’s theatre friends say: Congratulations, old chap“
Volkstheater
Open House at the Volkstheater
Exactly 130 years ago, on September 14, 1889, the then so-called Deutsche Volkstheater was opened (with a play by Anzengruber). Vienna’s theatre friends say: Congratulations, old chap!
When the new season begins, in the middle of the opening of the theatre and a few months before the general refurbishment starting in January 2020, the anniversary of the Volkstheater is celebrated with open doors. From 3 o’clock P.M. on, presentations and performances are on the programme, the children’s programme starts in the afternoon. Artists as well as employees taking care of make-up, props and costume will provide insights into their work spaces and the daily rehearsal routine. During guided tours, visitors will get to know the stage area and in many corners and adjoining rooms, people will play, read, sing and clap their hands.
The programme starts at 19:30 on the main stage: In a colourful preview show the ensemble will give a preview of the premieres of the new season, which you will later experience at the Arthur-Schnitzler-Platz, in Hall E, at Volx/Margareten or in the districts.
Team
Experimental Media / St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences – Markus Wintersberger, Thomas Wagensommerer, Christian Munk, Georg Vogt, Ulrich Kühn
Open Acting Academy Vienna – Marcus Josef Weiss, Colleen Rae Holmes
Exhibition
Date: 08.-29.09.2019
Location: Foto FLUSS, Wolkersdorf Castle
„The centripetal and centrifugal forces of these interactions created a picture of individual fragments, of an association as heterogeneous as its members, and yet, in the common interest, it shows itself as a whole.“
FLUSS
30 Years of FLUSS
The members’ exhibition “Where Are We Now?” takes a look at the first 30 years of FLUSS as an artistic retrospective of an association, which has existed over three decades, from today’s artists’ perspective. Based on an idea of Gerda Lampalzer and Cornelia Mitttendorfer.
For the anniversary exhibition a time travel through the history of FLUSS was created. A time axis was drawn through both galleries, covering the years from 1989 to 2019. All artists of FLUSS were invited to choose a particular year that was important and formative for them personally, historically or artistically. Each artist was asked to choose an existing work or to create a new one from his or her current perspective, which was then aligned with the timeline. Of course, there was no linear narrative. Gaps remained, condensations formed, clusters emerged. History was presented as a synopsis from many points of view and (artistic) personalities. The overall composition was determined by the time horizon. This allowed independent works to coincidentally meet and connect. The centripetal and centrifugal forces of these interactions created a picture of individual fragments, of an association that is as heterogeneous as its members, and yet, in the common interest, it shows itself as a whole.
A panel discussion on the history of FLUSS, led by some of the association’s most active protagonists and sponsors, framed this project.
Team
Experimental Media / St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences – Markus Wintersberger
Out of the box. The Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution
Date: 05.-09.09.2019
Location: POSTCITY Linz
„We are embarking on an expedition to artistically and scientifically survey our modern techno-economically shaped world, its future prospects and our options to take action.“
Ars Electronica
fhSPACE YouTube Palace
Degree programmes Media Technology and Digital Design
Selected students of the bachelor course Media Technology and the master course Digital Design/Masterclass Experimental Media at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences present a selection of current media projects in the form of experimental video projects. These deal with the topic “Echoraum” and give a current insight into the students’ experimental media production. Some of them are independent AV productions, others are experimental translations of interactive installations. The synopsis forms a varied arc of suspense. It is more about the search for the experiment than about offering ready-made solutions.
The Messy Shape of Problems – Past, Present and Future Perspectives of Design
Performance and Presentation
Markus Wintersberger, Christian Munk, Thomas Wagensommerer, Georg Vogt, Ulrich Kühn, Marcus Josef Weiss, Colleen Rae Holmes
Kugelkopf ext. 6 – Out of the Box
Performance and Presentation
The Kugelköpfe (sphere heads) suddenly appear, blend into the surrounding actions and engage in a dialogue with the environment. They irritate the ordinariness of the scenes and the monotony of the passersby’s gaze.
Our heads are round so that our thinking can change directions. (Francis Picabia)
In and out of the box, the performers expanded the scope of action of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival Linz 2019: as a proven ball-headed trio, the dancers confidently acted between the “lines” of current avantgarde media, dancing around robots, artificial intelligence and media hybrids. In the “Blue Saloon” of the “Academic Design Network Austria” on the campus of the Post City Linz, the ball heads found their ideal home box, from where they set off in search of “like-minded people”. Each excursion led to new encounters, new stories and new visual worlds. The highlight of their expeditions was the meeting with the Austrian Federal President, whom the ball heads played around with great sensitivity.
Concept Kugelkopf: Nagl~Wintersberger
Concept Performance: Andrea Nagl
Performance: Andrea Nagl / Julia Mariacher / Julia Schlager
Sound: “(7×7)7 ~ KK” von Karlheinz Essl
Team
Experimental Media / St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences – Markus Wintersberger, Christian Munk, Thomas Wagensommerer, Eva Fischer & students
Hanna Schimek
Andrea Nagl, Julia Mariacher, Julia Schlager
Karlheinz Essl
Links
Ars Electronica 2019
Ars Electronica 2019- fhSPACE YouTube Palace
Andrea Nagl – Kugelkopf ext. 6