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IMMERSIVE ARTS FESTIVAL

Digital.
Immersive.
Virtual.
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07.11.2025 & 08.11.2025

DIVE25

In 2025, the fourth edition of DIVE – Festival for Immersive Arts will take place.

On the two long November nights of November 7 & 8, audiences are once again invited on a
collective deep dive into audiovisual live experiences – possible only beneath the dome of a
modern planetarium.

Since the opening of the Sphere in Las Vegas, live performances in interplay with 360° visuals
have firmly entered the public eye. DIVE, launched back in 2019, is a truly pioneering project
worldwide, with its focus on this new form of immersive performance.

Carefully curated, DIVE 25 presents outstanding productions that highlight current trends in the field.

Among them, British musician EMIKA – who previously filled dome venues across Germany with her
celebrated work If We Disappear – will perform excerpts from a brand-new piece for the very
first time, where her music merges with live-generated dome projections into a sensual unity.

The Touchy Toy Collective from Rome whisks the audience away on an extraordinary journey through
the Eternal City, using immersive 3D scans and electronic soundscapes.

In Music in the Shape of a Sphere, New York-based artist Matthew Gantt lets music and image emerge
from one another within Bochum’s planetarium dome, opening the gates to a new kind of
audiovisual experience.

DIVE 25 is a window into the art and entertainment of tomorrow.

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”

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