Workshop: »Ideasthesia experiments in immersive environments« with Jānis Garančs
We are pleased to invite students to a workshop of Jānis Garančs (LV) on immersive environments. The workshop »Ideasthesia experiments in immersive environments« is a collaboration between Gestaltung Medialer Umgebungen (Prof. Ursula Damm) of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Liepaja Univeristy, Latvia.
The workshop is split in three part with the workshop on Saturday morning.
Introduction
15 July 2016
19 – 20.30 h
Workshop
16 July 2016
9.15 – 12.30 h
Presentation
16 July 2016
19 – 20.30 h
Location
Digital Bauhaus Lab
GMU Performance platform (Room 001)
Bauhausstraße 9a
99423 Weimar
Registration
Please register for the workshop sending an email with a short
motivation to mindaugas.gapsevicius[at]uni-weimar.de. Places are limited.
The workshop (as part of ERASMUS faculty visiting program) will, hopefully, collaboratively produce a networked, interactive environment, exploring how a concept of »Ideasthesia« (see D. Nikolić and others) could be represented in immersive audio-visual space. The participants are invited to bring their own »module« (e.g. software piece or artistic object) - that could send/receive data or message to/from other »modules«- via popular data exchange protocols like MIDI, OSC, WebSockets (eg. via Node.js) or try to develop such an interface, by »extending« an existing artwork. Also, possibly (not mandatory) we could use real-time audio analysis, video/motion/gesture tracking at the studio, or trigger effects on your produced video loops via VJ software. Additional hardware components (besides computers) could include USB game controllers, Kinect Sensor, MIDI controlled video mixer, Arduino modules - that hopefully will establish several hybrid »feedback loops«, »metaphysical echoes« and »mirror worlds« in Augmented or Virtual Reality.
About Jānis Garančs
Jānis Garančs is multi-media artist, who initially studied painting in Latvian Academy of Arts, and continued with video and computer art in Royal University of Fine Arts in Stockholm, and in 2003 Received Diploma in Audiovisual Media from KHM (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne). Since that time he mostly works with immersive installations (as solo and collaborative projects), using stereoscopic projection, multi-channel sound - that has been presented internationally in events and venues such as Ars Electronica Festival, DEAF, ISEA, Transmediale, and others. Besides artistic work, he has been also involved in several multimedia research projects - 1996-1997 »Media-on-Demand» at Ericsson MediaLab Lab and (2006-2008) LIVE (EU-IST project coordinated by Fraunhofer IAIS) – in both the research focus was future interactive TV formats.