How Can Dynamic Immersive Experiences Serve for Research and Educational Matters?
New Publications present Findings of Stretching Senses School at TA T Berlin
3D printed prototypes by B. Pekcagliyan, W. Rybakova, N. Vega, & P. Greta for »Subterranean Matters« Project, in »Stretching Senses School«, Matters of Activity.
Playful approaches can directly affect our sensory faculties beyond the realm of power and knowledge. The stretching senses school was an education-as-research project at the Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin (TA T) attached to the exhibition Stretching Materialities. This workshop-based contribution to the exhibition was framed as a collaboration between anthropology and immersive interaction art. Cluster members engaged with creative coders and digital artists in experimental curation work, with the intention to raise awareness of the public on the multiscale and embedded interconnections between humans and other earthly beings.
Four new publications by MoA members and workshop contributors and participants now introduce the method and implementation of the school which was carried out last fall in the Tieranatomisches Theater and discuss the experimental testing in three specific projects.
In »Stretching Senses School: An Introduction«, curators Maxime Le Calvé and Yoonha Kim lay out the method of the education-as-research project at the Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin (TA T) attached to the exhibition »Stretching Materialities«. In the article »Antenna. A performative sound installation featuring the »willowphone«, by Chloé Lee, Samuel Perea-Díaz, and Vanta, you can learn more about a hack of the traditional virtual reality headset, intended for the lecture hall at Tieranatomisches Theater. »Leaking Bodies«, a project by Charlotte Roschka, Hugo Larqué, Karolina Żyniewicz, Jemma Woolmore, and Mickey van Olst that explored the hidden energies and activities of matter as response to the exhibition »Stretching Materialities«. In »Subterranean Matters«, Baris Pekcagliyan, Paulina Greta, Warja Rybakova and Nayeli Vega together with Maxime Le Calvé and Yoonha Kim share their collaborative artistic research and VR experience revolving around the exploration of time, memory and human impact on the land.
For the full versions see: https://stretchingmaterialities.pubpub.org/stretchingsensesschool
The curators thank for the great work of the mentoring team Jemma Woolmore, Nayeli Vega, Vanta and Mickey von Olst, and the partnership with Node Institute in Berlin, as well as for the organisational powers of their student assistant Anne Delle.