Virtual Production

Interview with Christian Iseli about the Immersive Arts Space with a special focus on virtual production and film. Recorded for the 2020 online edition of NIFFF (Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival), aired on July 6th, 2020. © ZHdK 2020

TwinLab

The live performance of “The Hidden Formula” took place on 25 October 2018 at the ZHdK in Zurich and simultaneously at the Community Center in Hong Kong and was broadcast live in Zurich’s Bahnhofshalle as part of the Swiss Digital Day. | ©ZHdK 2018

Dancing Digital

Live performace on Sept. 26th, 2019. Photo by Betty Fleck, ZHdK ©2019

Together with visual artist Tobias Gremmler, choreographer Nadav Zelner and set designer Mariana Vieira Gruenig, students of the Contemporary Dance program at the Zurich University of the Arts explored the connection between real dancers and virtual characters in a modular stage design.

The prototype presentation took place during the REFRESH #2 conference on Thursday, September 26th.

# Keywords: Motion Capture, virtual characters, real-time performance, projection mapping, augmented reality.

Photo by Betty Fleck, ZHdK ©2019

Dancers: Freeda Electra Handelsman, Rabii Hadane, Aonghus Hode, Pornpim Karchai, Francesca Lapadula, Liza Lareida, I-Fen Lin, Rozemarijn Louwerse, Lara Müller, Stefanie Olbort, Elena Paltracca, Lucas del Rio Estevez, Kristin Tims, Suzanne Vis
Visual artist: Tobias Gremmler 
Choreographer: Nadav Zelner
Assistant choreographer: Denise Lampart
Set designer: Mariana Vieira Gruenig
Augmented projection artist: Martin Fröhlich 
Motion capture: Tobias Baumann, Norbert Kottmann, Corinne Soland, Benjamin Thoma
Sound: Eric Larrieux, Hans-Jürg Hofmann
Production manager: Kristina Jungic 
Project lead: Christian Iseli


ZHdK Research Day (2019)

Discussing previsualization in film production with Christian Iseli (Photo by Betty Fleck, ©ZHdK 2019)

The Research Day of the Zurich University of the Arts in 2019 was dedicated to the Research Cycle. Two workshops took place in the Immersive Arts Space:

WORKSHOP 1, November 28th 2019
Actors, Avatars and the Countenance: About the many faces of the SNF research project Actor and Avatar. Prof. Dr. Dieter Mersch, Prof. Anton Rey

WORKSHOP 3, November 28th 2019
Knowledge Transfer into Education and Public, based on the projects Expedition 2 Degrees, Virtual Production und Virtually Real. Jonas Christen, Prof. Niklaus Heeb, Prof. Christian Iseli


Art and Digital Change (2019)

Experimental staging concepts with virtual charactes. (Photo by Davide Arrizoli / ZHdK ©2019).

Thursday, 7 November 2019
ZKB Freiraum, Bahnhofstr. 9, 8001 Zurich

At a lunchtime event, Christian Iseli, head of the ZHdK Immersive Arts Space, and Melody Chua, ZHdK student and co-founder of Null-state, Inc., talked about the significance of digital change for art and culture and provided insights into projects of the Immersive Arts Space.

A cooperation between the Zurich University of the Arts (Z-Cubator and Game Design) and the Zürcher Kantonalbank (Cantonal Bank of Zurich).

Hosted by Z-Kubator und Büro Züri