Immersive Arts Space | Zurich University of the Arts
The Immersive Arts Space hosts a variety of events at the lab itself throughout the year. Additionally, we participate in exhibitions, festivals conferences and many more.
We will inform you in detail about upcoming events here on this page as well as our social media channels (Instagram, LinkedIn) . Stay tuned!
In the meantime, have a look at our past [here]
Friday, 4th September 2026 | 13:00, 15:00 and 16:00
How do you behave in group? How does the group behave in you?
For the past year I’ve been building a room that listens.
AHFSD it’s a performance for ten people at a time. You pick a card, put on a pair of glasses, walk in and the room reads how you move, how many of you there are, how close you stand, whether you’re moving together or each on your own.
Gradually, it answers, in sound and light. There’s nothing to get right. No instructions, no task, no correct way to behave. And no direct, immediate answer, more a reflection: can you sense safety? At times everything could sound pressed and saturated, as if the space were holding its breath. Slow down and small, delicate sounds come out of hiding. Spread across the floor and the air turns grainy. And if the ten of you happen to find a shared rhythm or shared space, a melody surfaces, voice and guitar step forward, the sound lifts off and circles overhead like a flock of birds.
The light answers too, but slower — it holds and fades where the sound is immediate, so a movement you make can stay visible for a few seconds after it has stopped being audible. Stand still and the light will settles low around you. Room can be warm, can be strobe. If at any point you’d rather watch than take part, you can. Step to the edge of the floor and the room stops reading you; take the glasses off and you leave the system entirely. Neither is a failure, and you can step back in, whenever you like.
I’m on the floor the whole time, among you — and my playing is treated by the system exactly like everything else, so it can be revealed or swallowed depending on what the room does. What the piece becomes is up to whoever is in it.
Take hardcAre, Slon aka Marco Mercuzio Peron
MA Sound Design Graduation performance
Friday, 4th September 2026 | 13:00, 15:00 and 16:00
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Intense weeks are behind us, now it’s time to reap the rewards and it is time to see what the students of our two minors, Basic and Advanced, have developed. There are two opportunities to do so.
5 March 2026, 5-8 p.m.
Final Presentation of the Immersive Arts Basic Minor
On Thursday, 5 March 2026, the closing event of Immersive Arts Basic Minor takes place, where students present their interactive works. After intensive introductions to the technical possibilities of the space, the students have developed their own works in transdisciplinary teams, based on motion capture technology, projection mapping, ambisonic sound and much more. The projects can be experienced without registration from 5 p.m. onwards. They will be presented one after the other, with an aperitif providing entertaining breaks between presentations. Prepare to be surprised by surreal talking forests, excerpts from an opera, interactive games and radioactive flowers.
Presentations:
5.30–6.00 p.m: [around] ALCINA by Sebastian Burckhardt, Leonardo Cavalli & Roman Lykov
6.00–6.30 p.m.: Techno-Spiritual Divination by Linda Knoll, Moritz Lienhard, Olivia Menezes & Manon Schnyder
6.30–7.00 p.m.: forest:gaze by Fei Fan, Virginia Guzmán Ellacuría, Crescencia Jiménez, & Valentina Zatevalneva
7.00–7.30 p.m.: Floral Rebound by Timon Daester, Olivier Jutzet, Samantha Pan & Alice Wéry
Where: Immersive Arts Space J1.30
10 March 2026, 6 p.m.
XR-Intervention at Opernhaus Zurich by the Immersive Arts Advanced Minor Students
Next Tuesday, the students of the Immersive Arts Advanced Minor will present their extended reality works at the Zurich Opera House. After intensively studying the production of Cardillac, their works offer visitors insights into Cardillac’s thoughts and actions: walk in a golden cage, visit crime scenes or explore the more than 100-year history of the play itself. One hour before the final performance on Tuesday and during the interval, visitors will have the opportunity to try out the students’ works at various locations in the foyer.
Where: Zurich Opera House, a ticket for the opera is needed to access the installations.