Lecture Series (Spring 2021)

Marcus Maeder | March 16th, 2021
A MBIENT: FROM IMMERSION TO IMMANENCE

Felix Stalder | April 13th, 2021
IMMERSION AS ESCAPISM, CONTROL, OR CO-EXISTENCE

Maike Thies | April 27th, 2021
ENTANGLED IN ARTIFICIAL WORLDS

Hannah Walter | May 4th, 2021
BECOMING WITH TECHNOLOGY. BECOMING CYBORG

Christian Iseli | May 11th, 2021
EXPANDED ILLUSIONS: CINEMATIC CONCEPTS OF IMMERSION

Exhibition Val Mucilaglinosa

Val Mucilaginosa is a Mixed Reality installation in which biochemical and relational ways of knowing how plants heal meet in the mucilaginous in-between. A speculative valley where two knowledge systems slip into one another.

The installation was created by visual artist Isabel Bullerschen together with Chris Elvis Leisi (Immersive Arts Space, Experience Design), Florian Baumann (3D Design) and many more.

Exhibition from 04.06. bis 11.10.2026
New Botanical Garden, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zürich
Open daily from 09:30-16:45

Instructions for Use @ Zurich Art Weekend

Instructions for Use is a performative XR-based installation involving visitors interacting in mixed reality headsets. AI agents analyze what cameras embedded in the headsets see and generate voiced-over instructions that provoke surprising actions/interactions between the visitors. Thus, a strange performance emerges in the mode of instructions executed by humans but imagined by machine.

Opening hours: 12.06., 17-21:30 | 13.06., 13-18:00 | 14.06., 11-16:00
Location: Unsorted - space for algorithmic sounds and images, Josefstrasse 206
Please register for a slot here