My AR /VR work O.B.E. Ego Passages is talked about along some other amazing XR works in the essay “Passthrough” by Annette Urban, Julia Reich und Manuel van der Veen in the “Mixed Realities “ Edition 290 in Kunsforum International. The combination of AR and VR in my artist practice has always been my goal. The passthrough, the most interesting moment of the whole experience, the transition from one reality to another.
Wednesday the first of November 2023
Saturday the 23rd of September 2023
On the 23rd of September the AR exhibition #𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗨𝗦𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗦 kicked off. The monuments will be on display for a year. So if you are in Worms in the near future, check out these Ladies unknown to the public until now. 🦸♀️
I created the monument "𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘄𝗮𝗵𝗹". Damenwahl is an AR sculpture and monument to 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗴 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹. Wilhelmine was an active member of the women's rights movement at the turn of the century, and her daughter Hedwig was one of the first female economists in Germany.
I created the monument "𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘄𝗮𝗵𝗹". Damenwahl is an AR sculpture and monument to 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗴 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹. Wilhelmine was an active member of the women's rights movement at the turn of the century, and her daughter Hedwig was one of the first female economists in Germany.
Tuesday the 5th of September 2023
My AR card game Survival Machines has finally arrived in time for the AI congress. May I present you one of the speculative species part of the card set: the 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘁 // 𝐈𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐡𝐲𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐚 𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐬.
Thursday the 6th of July 2023
My AR sculpture “Mutter Lucy” will be showing at Festival der Zukunft which is
running from the in front of the Deutsche Museum Munich. ARORA
and denkFEmale present an AR Walk of Fame for important women in science like Lucy
Mensing, Fang Fang and Ada Lovelace.
Thursday the 22nd of June 2023
I brought along some special seed from the Pueblo Indians in New Mexico. The augmented dancing seed can be viewed during 48 Hours Neukölln at the Teleidoscope exhibition in the OMO Art space.
Monday the first of May 2023
O.B.E. VR will be showing at Currents New Media Festival 2023 in Santa Fé. Currents is an annual art + technology festival, year-round exhibition/experience space, and non-profit organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. I am so happy to show my work here.
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Wednesday the 9th of March 2023
Finally the Kunstwanderweg XR will be opening in Naturpark Hoher Fläming on the 18th of March. Survival Machines will be premiereing in AR.
Sunday 22nd of January 2023
I am happy to announce that Survival Machines was shortlisted for the DKB VR ART Prize 2023.
Monday 21st of November 2022
XGenesis - Survival Machines will be showing at the Deutsche Museum @ Proxy , Munich in January 2023 together with the works of other artists awarded with a scholarship by the Research Institute for History of Science and Technology Deutsche Museum.
Saturday 1st of October 2022
I am super happy and proud to be part of the #denkFEmale & #MakeUsVisible AR monuments exhibition along with 31 other awesome digital artists showing the whole month of October all across Munich! ✨
In #MakeUsVisible AR monuments of women / non binary persons are being juxtaposed with physically existing male statues, whicht take up 95% of the public space.
My AR monument “Mutter Lucy" honours the scientist Lucy Mensing (1901 - 1995). Lucy Mensing was a promising physicist. She took part in the development of Quantum Mechanics. After the birth of her kids, she ended her scientific career as many women of her time. I placed her opposite the exclusive "men's club" at the Ruhmeshalle. As a mother and scientist she deserves a place here.”
In #MakeUsVisible AR monuments of women / non binary persons are being juxtaposed with physically existing male statues, whicht take up 95% of the public space.
My AR monument “Mutter Lucy" honours the scientist Lucy Mensing (1901 - 1995). Lucy Mensing was a promising physicist. She took part in the development of Quantum Mechanics. After the birth of her kids, she ended her scientific career as many women of her time. I placed her opposite the exclusive "men's club" at the Ruhmeshalle. As a mother and scientist she deserves a place here.”
Monday 1st of August 2022
I am happy to announce that I was selected together with Mohsen Hazrati, Patricia Detmering, Susi Vetter and Tina Willgren to make an augmented reality piece for the ”Kunstwanderweg Hoher Fläming”. I will be staying a whole month at the amazing COCONAT to experience the landscape and come up with a site specific piece for the art trail.
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Tuesday 31st of May 2022
Final presentation of my half year residency project Cassandra Rooms, an interactive webVR space & launch date on Satellite @Societé des Arts Technologiques in Montréal !
Monday 21th of February 2022
Totally thrilled to announce that I-Machina will be showing at WORLDS OF NETWORKS /Résaux Mondes Exhibition @ CentrePompidou in Paris starting wednesday the 23rd of February until the 25th of April 2022.
Monday 17th of January 2022
I-Machina will be showing at SUCH STUFF THAT WORLDS ARE MADE OF @ Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta, Malta on the 20th of January and the 10th of February 2022.
Sunday 21st of November 2021
Friday 2nd of October 2021
If in Paris, go to Wonderland today! O.B.E. I-Machina will be showing in 𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗦 mkv x The Wrong TV 𝘕𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 October 2, 2021, 6 pm
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Thursday 30th of September 2021
I am happy to announce the exhibition “Extended Reality - Code & Materiality” got extended until the 7th of October. Visitors are required to book a time slot ahead !
Tuesday 31st of August 2021
O.B.E. Ego Passages will be on show as part of the interactive exhibition “Extended Reality - Code & Materiality” by the INKA research group in cooperation with the Humboldt-University’s Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« and Media Theater.
The exhibition is running from the 3rd to the 30th of September 21- You need to register ahead!
Tuesday 6th of July 2021
If you are in France, check out my collaborative VR piece aWaiting at the #restitution exhibition at Musée Ecole Jardin de la Perrine in Laval from the 7th to the 11th of July.
Saturday 8th of May 2021
“I -Machina” is showing from the 8th of May to the 5th of June in the show CLUSTERED MINDS at the Wrong TV. Tune in!!
Monday April 12 2021
Happy to announce that aWaiting, our specualtive VR space (collaboration with Arthur Gouillart and Alexandra Barancova) was selected to be part of the virtual exhibition this year for the Laval Virtual Recto VRso Festival. Check it out in 2021 Artworks!
Wednesday March 24 2021
𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗞 #𝟰 𝙨𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙠𝙚 curated and with works by Sarah Oh-Mock, Julia Charlotte Richter and Anke Schiemann on view from 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟰 𝘁𝗼 𝟮𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 at raum on demand / Alte Münze Berlin
mkv realizes in cooperation with raum on demand the exhibition series INTERLOCK, testing new exhibition formats to open other experiential spaces for art.
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Sunday January 10 2021
Together with the Aurora School of ARtists I will be holding the workshop “Augmented Reality in the Performative Arts” at the 34. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Festival for Expanded Media. I will be talking about my project “Ego Passages”. Join me on my Journey on the 12.th of January 2021. Tickets are still available! I will be giving some hands on tips on what not to do when programming your first AR App. The workshop will be held in German.
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Tuesday November 10 2020
And the “Speculative Playrooms” exhibition is open! Check out our space “aWaiting” in collaboration with Alexandra Barancova and Arthur Gouillart speculating on environmental futures here until the 30th of November: https://hub.link/SpavTq2
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Friday October 23 2020
I will be participating in the Speculative Playrooms Project, funded by the European Cultural Solidarity Fund / European Cultural Foundation. We will bebuilding a VR space in Mozilla Hubs speculating on the Future of Environment. More news on the actual exhibition events to come.
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Thursday September 17 2020
With some Corona delay I can now finally present you the site-specific #AR #dance #performance #EgoPassages at Holzmarkt25 starting today. in Berlin with the support of the production lab of the AURORA School for ARtists. I was meant to show this piece at the Performing Arts Festival Berlin this year but ended up only in the digital realm.Please download the app here at ankeschiemann.de/egopassages ahead of visit with a good wifi connection. The app is available for IOS and Android.Credits go to the wonderful dancer Melli Mueller, Jean Delouvroy for the music, Luke Swenson for the spoken word, and Leonid Barsht for programming.
Sunday January 10 2021
Together with the Aurora School of ARtists I will be holding the workshop “Augmented Reality in the Performative Arts” at the 34. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Festival for Expanded Media. I will be talking about my project “Ego Passages”. Join me on my Journey on the 12.th of January 2021. Tickets are still available! I will be giving some hands on tips on what not to do when programming your first AR App. The workshop will be held in German.
Tuesday November 10 2020
And the “Speculative Playrooms” exhibition is open! Check out our space “aWaiting” in collaboration with Alexandra Barancova and Arthur Gouillart speculating on environmental futures here until the 30th of November: https://hub.link/SpavTq2
Friday October 23 2020
I will be participating in the Speculative Playrooms Project, funded by the European Cultural Solidarity Fund / European Cultural Foundation. We will bebuilding a VR space in Mozilla Hubs speculating on the Future of Environment. More news on the actual exhibition events to come.
Thursday September 17 2020
With some Corona delay I can now finally present you the site-specific #AR #dance #performance #EgoPassages at Holzmarkt25 starting today. in Berlin with the support of the production lab of the AURORA School for ARtists. I was meant to show this piece at the Performing Arts Festival Berlin this year but ended up only in the digital realm.Please download the app here at ankeschiemann.de/egopassages ahead of visit with a good wifi connection. The app is available for IOS and Android.Credits go to the wonderful dancer Melli Mueller, Jean Delouvroy for the music, Luke Swenson for the spoken word, and Leonid Barsht for programming.
Wednesday May 20 2 2020
Join me tomorrow May 21st at 7.15PM in a talk about "Extended Reality Narratives" at the Performing Arts Festival Berlin live in VRChat! I will be talking about my upcoming AR dance performance project "Ego Passagen". The discussion is in English. News
Thursday January 2 2020
The AR project “O.B.E. Egopassagen” will be showing at the Performing Arts Festival in Berlin end of May 2020 at Berlin Holzmarkt. Stay Tuned for more information.
Saturday February 1 2020
I will be holding a talk at State Studio Berlin about my AR project “O.B.E. Ego Passagen” together with Aljoscha Begrich (Rimini Protokoll), Björn Lengers (Cyberräuber) and many more. Please come! Nuts on teh house
Monday June 3 2019
I am holding a talk at Mediasphere for Nature at the Experimentierfeld Naturkundemuseum about my project Wunderkammer X Genesis this wendesday the 5th of June. Come over and have a wander afterwards in the marvellous Museum for Naturkunde.
Monday October 7 2019
YAY!I was selected to take part in the workshop Digitalization Triple lV. Augmented Reality - a laboratory series on the topic of the independant performing arts in the digital age at the Aurora School of ARtists. Cannt wait!
Wednesday March 28 2019
I am taking part in the three day workshop Innovationscamp Gestaltungsmaschine about AI in
in the creative, art and cultural field from 28th to 30th of March with Mio Loclair, Roman Lipski Julian Adenauer, founder of the retune Festival and many more at Colona Nova.
The 2.5-day workshop and conference program is devoted to three main topics: AI for an economy and society of tomorrow, people & machines and collaborative creative processes. I will be working with the Weizenbaum Institute and the Berlin-based performance group Replica taking a rather critical viewpoint of AI technology. we will aprticularly explre the subject of bias and explainability in AI and machine learning.
The Guilt Machine - the answer to a flawed justice system?
Monday March 4 2019
I was selected to participate in the workshop "The Work of Art in the Age
of Artificial Intelligence" run by Natalia Fuchs and Helena Nikonole as part of the annual CTM/ Transmediale at the Art Laboratory Berlin. It was fabulous to discuss project ideas and meet all the other interesting media artists.
Tuesday January 15 2019
100 years ago to this day Rosa Luxemburg was murdered during the stormy events of the Revolution of 1918/1919. Her body was dumped in the Landwehrkanal opposite the Zoo. As part of the series of events “100 Jahre Revolution” I made a video walk covering the last 20 minutes of her life told from Rosas perspective passing the places she did. ”Ich bin Rosa” is a multi media chronique of a murder . The walk starts at DIN Platz Burggrafenstrasse 6 close to the entry of the Zoo. Dont forget your headset to bring along.
Dear Berliners! I would like to share the news that my feature documentary “I (HEART) BERLIN” found its final resting place on AMAZON PRIME. So for all the peeps in the USA and the UK , who still havent seen it, you can watch it here on AMAZON PRIME.
Its Berlinale time!
Its Berlinale time! just in time when the winter becomes unbearable there is the Berlin film festival to cheer us up. And I (HEART) Berlin won`t miss it either.
Check out the catalogue for the latest German documentaries including I HEART BERLIN! http://german-documentaries.de/…/german-documentaries_15.pdfBERLIN BERLIN
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I (HEART) BERLIN mit Ingo Hoppe on RADIO BERLIN
So I was invited to talk in the morning show about I (HEART) BERLIN with Ingo Hoppe. Anke told us also how she enjoyed the fabulous paternoster ride in the old RBB building.
I (HEART) BERLIN on RADIO EINS!
For all our German speaking friends! Tomorrow our director Anke Schiemann will be talking on radioeins about I (HEART) BERLIN in the friday show “Schöne Woche”! Tune in at 13.30 CET. A great ending to a beautiful week!
http://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/die_schoene_woche/
„Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin“ I (HEART) BERLIN on RADIO EINS
„Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin“, hat Marlene Dietrich einmal gesungen. Hätte sie damals gewusst, dass es nicht nur das Berlin in Deutschland gibt, sondern auch noch diverse Berlins in den US-Staaten Texas, Georgia und Ohio, hätte Sie die Suche nach ihrem Koffer wahrscheinlich schnell aufgegeben.
Check out Anke’s interview about our documentary I (HEART) BERLIN at radioeins in “Die schöne Woche”. Merry weekend everybody!
http://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/die_schoene_woche/aktuell/berlin_geht_um_die.html
Juhu!
Read the production report about I (HEART) BERLIN in German Films Quarterly here! http://www.german-films.de/fileadmin/mediapool/epaper/GFQ_2014/GFQ_1_2014/index.html#/18
Talking about the future of film funding in the German Kinemathek
I participated in a podium discussion about crowdfunding, part of “future talks” also broadcasted on “Info Radio”, in the German Film and Television Museum at Potsdamer Platz. Other guests were Barbara Fischer (Wikimedia), Karsten Wenzlaff (founder of the Institute for Communication in Social Media),Tanja Dückers (Journalist and Writer) and Sebastion Esser (Crowdreporter.de). The discussion was lead by Harald Asel (Info radio RBB).Click on the link below and find out more more about the heated debate, if crowdfunding can be a reliable financing tool in the creative world.
http://www.berlin.de/projektzukunft/networking-events/zukunftsgespraeche/artikel/crowdfunding-die-masse-machts/
I (HEART) BERLIN in the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel!
We mentioned a while ago that our director got interviewed by the Berlin daily. We finally made it in the Tagesspiegel! Please read Moritz Herrmanns article about our documentary I (HEART) BERLIN.http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/neue-dokumentation-auch-in-den-usa-gibt-es-berlins/9105584.html
I (HEART) BERLIN in radio show show again!
On the 9th of November it will be 24 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. On this occasion our director will talk about her docu trip to the Berlins in the USA: One in particular – the one and only remaining East Berlin in Pennsylvania, USA. This small picturesque town, only two hours north of Washington D.C. also has a Cold War story to tell. Tune in to Süpermercado at Funkhaus Europa tomorrow at 11am CET.
HALLO AND HOWDY!
Ihave shown a short version of my documentary at the opening of the exhibition “Berlins –Made in the USA” at the German American Heritage Museum in Washington DC this summer, on the day of the 50th anniversary of JFKs speech “Ich bin ein Berliner”. Plenty of Berliners from all over the US participated in the event which we covered to be part of our final documentary.
( below in the pictures you see the director of the museum Rüdiger Lentz introducing the film together with the director of “I (HEART) BERLIN”.
Starting and ending in Berlin, the capital of Germany, the story is told through personal stories of German descendants and German migrants. Those portraits will be intercut with the director’s own personal story of migration, dislocation and re-location.