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DIVE - Immersive Arts Festival (2019)

The “DIVE – Immersive Arts Festival ” took place from November 21st to November 24th, 2019 at the Bochum Planetarium and at Schauspielhaus Bochum. It marked the first collaboration between the Bochum Planetarium and the Bochum Schauspielhaus. The festival goes back to a core activity of the city of Bochum called “Hotspot Immersive Live Culture” conceived by Tobias Wiethoff. The first edition was realized as part of a collaboration with Tobias Staab, who curated an exhibition series of immersive works of art at the Schauspielhaus Bochum in 2019.
The focus of the festival is on the interaction of live performance and immersive media technologies. Under the four general terms digital – immersive – virtual and environment, a broad spectrum of artistic approaches in the field of communal immersion is offered.
The national partner in the content design of the first version of the festival was the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe.
The highlights of the first edition of the festival included live performances by the artists Ulf Langheinrich, Chikashi Miyama and Andrea Belfi, as well as the Sense Factory, a multi-sensory installation set up at the “Zeche Eins” venue by an artist group around FM Unit, T. Salter, M. Audry et al.
In addition to performances and installations, the first edition of DIVE also featured a top-class lecture program with contributions from Prof. Ludger Brümmer (ZKM), Prof. Dr. Hans Christian von Herrman (TU Berlin) and Dr. Thomas Oberender (Berlin Festival).

DIVE Conceptual Development & Curation: Tobias Wiethoff (Planetarium Bochum) and Tobias Staab (Schauspielhaus Bochum)

21.11.2019 - 24.11.2019

IMMERSIVE ART & PERFORMANCE

Digital Immersion, Virtuality and Environments:

“DIVE – Immersive Arts Festival ” shows a variety of immersive installations,
surround concerts and 360° performances that invite you to immerse yourself
in completely new worlds of experience.

Trajectories

Performance

The goal of the "Trajectories" performance is to establish an interactive relationship between human body movements and generative audio-visual content in an immersive space.

Florian Hartlieb - "Dunkler Wald"

Performance

Abstracted violin and natural sounds create a three-dimensional soundscape that represents a synthetic forest. At the same time, the violin and fulldome video projection immerse themselves in this space, becoming part of it, yet distinguishing themselves—oscillating between disorientation and synergetic connection.

Chris Salter et al. - "SENSEFACTORY"

Installation

SENSEFACTORY plunges the audience into an intensely sensory immersive experience—a journey through a hallucinogenic, ever-changing landscape of light, vibrations, sound, scent, colors, and variable architecture.

"Beauty in Simplicity" - Kai Schumacher

Performance

In "Beauty in Simplicity," pianist Kai Schumacher combines contemporary piano music, immersive visuals, and 3D audio into a fulldome concert experience, oscillating between mania and meditation.

Andrea Belfi und WISP – “Strata 3D”

Agnieszka Polska - „The Happiest Thought“

360° Video

With poetic intensity, artist Agnieszka Polska brings the prehistoric biosphere to life before the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history, creating a hypnotic and mesmerizing séance.

Robert Lippok & Lucas Gutierrez "Non-face"

360° Video

In their first joint fulldome work, sound artist Robert Lippok and digital artist Lucas Gutierrez explore impossible objects—entities that appear realistic yet cannot physically exist in the material world.

David OReilly - "Eye of the Dream"

360° Video

"Eye of the Dream" is a multifaceted experience, shifting between dramatic and meditative, abstract and familiar, chaotic and ordered states.

Fatima Al Qadiri - "Extraordinary Alien"

360° Video

The title "Extraordinary Alien" refers to a classification in the U.S. artist visa system: "Alien with extraordinary ability." It plays with the double meaning of the word "alien", as well as with the idea that, from our insignificant earthly perspective, all extraterrestrials already appear extraordinary by default.

Metahaven - "Elektra"

360° Video

With "Elektra," Metahaven creates a parable for the domes of planetariums, where the film is projected. The hemispherical dome enables a different way of seeing, as the eye encounters tableaus that it can wander across and immerse itself in.

Prof. Ludger Brümmer – “Surround sound and perception: Why spatial sound makes sense.“

Keynote at DIVE 2019 Festival by Dr. Thomas Oberender

From Space to Environment. Seeing and Hearing in the Planetarium”

Ulf Langheinrich – “Lost + Hemisphere”

Gero König – “Chordeograph Augmented Reality”