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<div><b>Breaking Glass III: Virtual Space</b><br>
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<div>Online symposium on virtual and augmented reality in art and
architecture<br>
May 28-30, 2021, 5pm<br>
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<b>Hochschule für Bildende Künste-Städelschule</b><br>
Dürerstraße 10<br>
60596 Frankfurt am Main<br>
Germany<br>
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<div><b>With Refik Anadol, Johan Bettum, Daniel Birnbaum, Simon Denny,
Elizabeth Diller, Vittorio Gallese, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Yuk
Hui, iheartblob, Peter Jäger, Sanford Kwinter, Michelle Kuo, Lundahl
& Seitl, Thomas Metzinger, Yasmil Raymond, Rachel Rossin, Tomás
Saraceno, Wolf Singer, Space Popular, Ben Vickers, as well as students
and alumni of the Städelschule.</b><br>
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<div>More information and access to the livestream (no registration
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Breaking Glass III: Virtual Space is a three-day symposium organized
by Städelschule and moderated by professors Johan Bettum and Daniel
Birnbaum. This virtual event focuses on the role of augmented reality
(AR) and virtual reality (VR) in architecture and art, and brings
together speakers from various disciplines, including architecture,
art, philosophy and neuroscience, who present their ideas, theories
and work in the field of AR and VR. Critical practitioners and
theorists from 13 different cities are invited: Basel, Berlin,
Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Mainz, New York, Paris,
Parma, Seoul, Stockholm, and Vienna.<br>
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<div><b>Breaking Glass</b><br>
In 2018, the Städelschule launched Breaking Glass, a three-part
multidisciplinary symposium intended to present groundbreaking
projects by artists and architects engaging with advanced new
technologies<i>.</i> Breaking Glass I (Städelschule, 2018) tackled
the technologically driven processes of subjectification that produce
us as individuals and collectives. With Breaking Glass II (Mousonturm,
2019), the central role of the virtual image for AR and VR was
addressed. Breaking Glass III concludes by thematically engaging with
the immersive and interactive qualities of the space that is
engendered. Within a relatively short time, AR and VR have emerged
center stage in architecture and art as novel means for exploring how
their creative output is produced, mediated, and experienced. With AR
and VR the experiencing subject is situated in a potentially
interactive relation to a partly or fully simulated environment.
Feeding the continuous experiential spectrum between the "fully
real" and the "fully virtual," the underlying technology of
these media presents machine-generated sensorial input where to date
the ocular dominates. With these inputs, corporeal experience sees the
"virtual" thrown on the scale with the "real" while the
concepts and models in neuroscience for how we understand perceptional
dynamics are shifting.<br>
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<div>The questions pertaining to virtual space include how it
accommodates and affects the human subject, and thus how our sense of
reality is constructed within it. AR and VR bring the pictorial and
the spatial together insofar as both are based on virtual,
computer-generated imagery. AR merges this virtual image with an image
of the real setting, whereas in VR the virtual imagery is the main
element in the saturated, closed, and immersive environment.<br>
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<div>The symposium is accompanied by the publication<i> SAC Journal 6:
Breaking Glass: Spatial Fabulations & Other Tales of
Representation in Virtual Reality</i> (Spurbuchverlag, 2021),
available <a
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></span>here</a>.<br>
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The lectures and talks will be held in English.<br>
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<b>Program</b><br>
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<div>Friday, May 28, 2021<br>
All times are in Central European Summer Time.<br>
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<div><b>5:00-5:30pm, Welcome and Introduction</b><br>
Yasmil Raymond, Frankfurt<br>
Johan Bettum, Frankfurt and Daniel Birnbaum, London</div>
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<div><b>5:30-8:00pm, Panel 1 - Art in the New Era: The Virtual
Turn</b><br>
Michelle Kuo, New York<br>
Rachel Rossin, New York<br>
Tomás Saraceno, Berlin with Peter Jäger, Mainz and Yasmil Raymond,
Frankfurt<br>
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Paris<br>
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<div><b>8:00-9:30 pm, Panel 2 - Experiencing the Self: Space and
the Virtual</b><br>
Wolf Singer, Frankfurt<br>
Lundahl & Seitl, Stockholm<br>
Yuk Hui, Hong Kong<br>
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<div>Saturday, May 29, 2021<br>
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<div><b>12:00-12:15pm, Introduction</b><br>
Johan Bettum, Frankfurt and Daniel Birnbaum, London<br>
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<div><b>12:15-2:30pm, Panel 3 - Art and Architecture in Virtual
Space</b><br>
Space Popular, London<br>
Vittorio Gallese, Parma<br>
Ben Vickers, London<br>
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<div><b>2:30-6:00pm, Panel 4 - Making Worlds Today</b><br>
Elizabeth Diller, New York<br>
Thomas Metzinger, Mainz<br>
Sanford Kwinter, New York<br>
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<div><b>6:30-8:00pm, Panel 5 - Staging the Future</b><br>
Simon Denny, Berlin<br>
iheartblob, Vienna<br>
Refik Anadol, Los Angeles<br>
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<div>Sunday, May 30, 2021<br>
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<div><b>6:00-6:15pm, Introduction</b><br>
Johan Bettum, Frankfurt and Daniel Birnbaum, London<br>
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<div><b>6:15-9:00pm, Panel 6 - Projects and contexts by students
and alumni of Städelschule</b></div>
<div>David Bachmann and Ben Livne-Weitzman (WAVA), Frankfurt; Yara
Feghali, Los Angeles: Ainsley Johnston, Basel; Yeon Joo Oh and Haewook
Jeong, Seoul</div>
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