September 25, 2025

Venue: Conference hall, Kulturforum Berlin (downstairs)

Conference Opening

09:00 – Arrival and Registration

09:30 – Welcome and Institutional Greetings:

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Habakuk Israel (Welcome)
  • Dr. Sibylle Hoiman, Director Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Stefanie Molthagen-Schnöring, Vice President for Research, HTW Berlin

Keynote

09:45 – Modelling the Unseen—The Future of Spatial Experiences in Extended Reality – Dr. Paula Strunden, ETH Zürich

This talk explores how Extended Reality (xR) technologies are transforming spatial design through critical and feminist perspectives, inspired by early 1990s VR pioneers and their concept of ’embodied virtuality’. Paula Strunden presents three xR models developed during her design-led PhD—Rhetorical Bodies, Infra-thin Magick, and Alison’s Room—to show how virtual and physical worlds can merge to expand sensory and cognitive experience. She introduces the concept of ‘enveloped cognition’, emphasizing the interplay between bodily perception and immersive environments, and previews her upcoming project Mirrorworlds / Imagine: A Space of Us All, which she currently develops as part of her ETH Postdoc Fellowship with Gramazio Kohler Research.

Dr. Paula Strunden is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of architecture, immersive media, and feminist theory. She is currently an NRW Media Art Fellow (2025) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zurich (2025–2027). She studied architecture in Vienna, Paris, and London, and has worked with Herzog & de Meuron and Raumlabor Berlin. Her PhD, developed within the Horizon 2020 project TACK—Communities of Tacit Knowledge, focused on multisensory perception in Extended Reality (xR) and was awarded the 2023/24 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Prize.

10:45 – Coffee break

SESSION I – Remixing Space, Art, and Data | 11:00–12:15

Chair: Peggy Schoenegge

11:00 – Studying the Remix. Studio-Based Pedagogy and Student-Led Empirical Research on Hybrid Spaces and Hybrid Spatial Practices – Anna Juliane Heinrich and Maxi Heitmayer

11:25 – Buñuel, Dalí and Gershwin in digital remix. Reimagining and integrating the works Un Chien Andalou and Rhapsody in Blue using generative artificial intelligence – Ignacio Moreno Nava

11:50 – JONES-19: A Cultural Image Dataset Based on The Grammar of Ornament – Alexandros Haridis, Linh Pham, David Alvarez-Mellis and Stuart Shieber

Lunch break and museum visit

12:15 – Lunch break and guided visit to the Gemäldegalerie Berlin (the famous picture gallery in the Kulturforum Berlin) OR the duo exhibition TECHNOSYMBIOSIS at the Austrian Cultural Forum.

SESSION II – Perspectives on Remixing | 14:00–15:15

Chair: Dagmar Schürrer

14:00 – INDES—in view of unforeseen circumstances. Liberating design from humanism towards a practice formed by posthuman thought – Kaja Mussenbrock

14:10 – Papermath: Bridging 2D and 3D Geometry Learning Through Physical-Digital Interaction – Caroline Sasse and Svetlana Okhlupina

14:20 – Poster and Demo Madness Session

15:15 – Coffee break

SESSION III – Hybrid Encounters (public) | 15:30–16:40

Chairs: Habakuk Israel & Maja Stark

15:30 – Welcome to the public track

15:35 – Hybrid Workflow in AI-Driven Stylisation and Hand-Drawn Animation – Hannes Rall, Alice Osinska and Aaron Zhi Qiang Lim

15:55 – Virtually Be: Interaction between Physical and Virtual Actors in Theatrical Performances – Anastasiia Ternova, Geoffrey Gorisse and Georges Gagneré

16:20 – Spheritivity, a Hybrid Immersive VR Art collection – Lucas Fabian Olivero

16:30 – Handmade with a Robot – Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration for “Handmade Automation” – Lotte Schlör

16:40 – Coffee Break

Poster and Demo Session I (public) | 17:00–18:45

Venue: Forum downstairs

17:00 – Opening

Presented Demos:

  • Chantal Pisarzowski: n≠1 — Conversational Digital Twins for Grief
  • Chris Geiger and Soren Ali: The BildKlangPoet – a technical framework for designing mixed reality painting experiences using generative AI
  • Dario Neumann and Johann Habakuk Israel: Squeegee3D – Virtual Abstract Painting
  • Emanuela Zilio and Chiara Masiero Sgrinzatto: Cities as Emotional-Cognitive Constructs. Panoramic view to access Myth, Memory, and Meaning
  • Fatima Azham, Claudia Plascencia and Marc Oprisiu: HEAR THE ART
  • Jens Isensee, Julian Knepel and Maja Stark: Novocene – An Artistic Mixed Reality Experience on the Anthropocene and a Possible Future
  • Kaja Mussenbrock: Posthuman don’t get angry
  • Katia Sophia Ditzler: DEAD WATER/LIVING WATER
  • Maja Rohwetter: Contingencies
  • Manja Ebert: Brubble
  • Ornella Fieres: It seems to capture the beauty and majesty of nature

Presented Short Papers / Posters:

  • Angelo Passuello: Mixing Methodologies in the Study of Medieval Roofing Systems. The Case of the Veneto Region within the European Project CaMeRoofs
  • Christian Geiger, Soren Ali and Philipp Dilchert: The BildKlangPoet – a Framework for Designing Mixed Reality Painting Experiences Using Generative AI
  • Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath and Mark Amerika: Initial Reflections on GenAI-Based Game Remixing as an Explorative Practice
  • Dominic Eger Domingos, Konrad Jünger, Peter Sörries and Carola Zwick: Reimagining Human-Robot Interaction: Exploring A Stylus-Based Haptic Approach to Reflect on Future Designs of Human-Robot Interfaces
  • Emanuela Zilio and Chiara Masiero Sgrinzatto: Cities as Emotional-Cognitive Constructs. Panoramic view to access Myth, Memory, and Meaning.
  • Franziska Hannß and Rainer Groh: From Storage to Showcase: A Presentation Tool for the Reuse of Interactive Museum Installations
  • Gabriel Colaço, António Trindade and Diana Costa: From Light to Light: David Hockney, Digital Media, and the Expanded Field of Drawing
  • Gilberto Colaço, Diana Costa and Susana Oliveira: Between Tradition and 3D Printing: Nick Ervinck’s Hybrid Practice
  • Maja Stark, Julian Knepel and Jens Isensee: Novocene. An Artistic Mixed Reality Experience on the Anthropocene and a Possible Future
  • Thomas Hoppe, Manuel Schiewe and Darya Martyniuk: Mixed Reality Visualization of Abstract Knowledge Graph Structures using the Domain of Quantum Computing
  • Thomas Rist: On the Development of the Historical 3D Action-Adventure Game GoA and its Derivatives
  • Zhongyuan Yu, Fabian Töpfer, Eliane Christ and Matthew McGinity: Toward an All-in-one Platform for Mixed Reality Exhibitions

18.15 – Participatory mixed reality performance »Phygital Intimacy« – Lisa Kaschubat, Tasha Hess-Neustedt and Jane Alison in collaboration with the EU-funded AURORA XR School for Artists, HTW Berlin

18:45 – End of the performance, departure

Conference Dinner

19:45 – Conference Dinner at “Gasthaus Figl”, Urbanstr. 47, 10967 Berlin-Kreuzberg

 

September 26, 2025

Venue: Conference hall, Kulturforum Berlin (downstairs)

Session IV – Truths and Narratives | 9:30–10:55

Chairs: Christian Kassung and Jürgen Sieck

09:30 – Hacking the Wall: Hybrid Narratives Across Urban and Digital Spaces – Catarina Lira Pereira, Domingos Loureiro and Diana Costa

09:55 – Ground-truthing. Grounding Algorithms and Computers in the World – Christina Schinzel

10:20 – Suspended Views: Materiality and the poetics of projection – Helena Ferreira

10:55 – Coffee break

SESSION V – RemiXR | 11:15–12:30

Chair: Christoph Holtmann

11:15 – Drawing Together with Sibylla Merian. Exploring Volumetric Video’s Impact in Augmented Reality Storytelling to Bring Historical Figures to Life – Noura Kräuter and Ulrike Spierling

11:40 – Phygital Vocabulary: Speculative Terms to Discuss the Implications of Emerging Reality-Forming Interfaces – Markus Kreutzer, Aya Bentur, Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, Romi Mikulinsky and Boris Müller

12:05 – Authoring XR Together: A Multiuser WebAR Toolkit for Artistic Collaboration – Leonid Barsht, Carsten Busch and Ricardo Hendrichs

12:30 – Lunch break and coffee

Poster and Demo Session II | 13:00–14:15

Venue: Forum downstairs

13:00 – Opening with performance by Mona Hedayati

Presented Demos:

  • Ala Leresteux, Jeremy Leresteux, and Iliya Gertman: Hemathurgy
  • Caroline Sasse and Svetlana Okhlupina: Papermath: Bridging 2D and 3D Geometry Learning Through Physical-Digital Interaction
  • Charlotte Triebus: Multitudes – Languages of Artistic Research on Moving Bodies and XR / AI Technology
  • Konrad Jünger and Verena Kühn: Soft Touch
  • Lucas Fabian Olivero: Spheritivity, a Hybrid Immersive VR Art collection
  • Mona Hedayati: Resonant Atmospheres: The Techno-Performance of Affection
  • Thomas Hoppe, Manuel Schiewe and Darya Martyniuk: Mixed Reality Visualization of Abstract Knowledge Graph Structures using the Domain of Quantum Computing
  • Xenia Klinge and Rimini Protokoll: Ursula_Bot
  • Zhongyuan Yu, Fabian Töpfer, Eliane Christ and Matthew McGinity: Toward an All-in-one In-Situ Platform for Managing Mixed Reality Exhibitions

Presented Short Papers / Posters: See Session I.

SESSION VI – Remixing Heritage? | 14:15– 15:30

Chairs: Eliane Christ and Alwin Cubasch

14:15 – Strategies for the Cataloguing, Enhancement, and Storytelling of Historical and Archival Heritage. The Historical Archive of the Teatro della Pergola in Florence – Federico Cioli, Stefano Bertocci and Maria Chiara Forfori

14:40 – The Stibbert Museum in Florence: Experimental approaches to 3D reality-based digital reconstruction for Virtual Museum and Digital Humanities – Anastasia Cottini, Andrea Lumini and Sofia Brizzi

15:05 –From Cultural Heritage to Critical Heritage – For an Inclusive Heritage Discourse – Enrico Tomassini and Giorgio Verdiani

15:30 – End of the Conference