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re:publica 17 - All SessionsMultisensory location-based VR as a catalyst for social change (en)“Auf der Schattenseite” is a VR experience created for International Justice Mission, a NGO that frees modern slaves worldwide, providing follow-up care and empowering local policemen and lawyers. In a reconstructed brothel we are sending the visitors virtually to India to be confronted with a young girl in forced prostitution.
Maren DemantJim RüggebergWearing a HMD with a 360° video with spatial audio in the staged environment, smelling Indian incense sticks, and all of the sudden meeting this girl, who is telling her lifestory adressing the visitor directly, people begin to realize and feel the horrible setting they are actuall...2017-05-1025 min
re:publica 17 - Love Out Loud!Multisensory location-based VR as a catalyst for social change (en)“Auf der Schattenseite” is a VR experience created for International Justice Mission, a NGO that frees modern slaves worldwide, providing follow-up care and empowering local policemen and lawyers. In a reconstructed brothel we are sending the visitors virtually to India to be confronted with a young girl in forced prostitution.
Maren DemantJim RüggebergWearing a HMD with a 360° video with spatial audio in the staged environment, smelling Indian incense sticks, and all of the sudden meeting this girl, who is telling her lifestory adressing the visitor directly, people begin to realize and feel the horrible setting they are actuall...2017-05-1025 minre:publica 17 - All Sessions'All the world's a stage' - what Theatre can teach VR (en)Still the discussion about Virtual Reality is too focussed on the 'how'. Artists and theatre makers are needed to infuse the technology with sense and soul. The discussion has to turn to the 'why?'.
This panel with accompanying lightning talks brings together 4 artists, theatre makers, creators in VR that are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the new medium and who can explain why theatre's traditions can teach VR narrators so much.
Marcel KarnapkeLeonie PichlerMaren DemantBjörn LengersFriedrich Kirschner'All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players...' Let's take our...2017-05-0955 min
NPR BerlinLife In Berlin: Maren DemantOn Oranienstrasse, in the heart of Kreuzberg, photographer Maren Demant waits, ready, camera in hand to capture the faces of pedestrians who pass by. When an individual catches the young photographer’s attention, she asks to take their photo. This is part of one of her ongoing projects: Oranienstrasse. It’s a body of work that depicts the cultural diversity of Berlin on one of the city’s more well known streets.2015-04-2302 min