Lecturer: Katharina Haverich
13-17.05.2024
Time: 14:00 – 17:00
The Metaverse, at this stage, is a multitude of weird looking platforms, offering virtual environments to explore. What is being represented and why? Can we find Pristina or Kosovo? If so, how are these places designed and what do they feel like? Let’s take a few VR headsets and look at what there is. Draw comparisons between VR and IRL. Formulate criticism. Play. Get bored. Take a break. Keep exploring.
The class will be held in English
To be part of the class please register in the link below no later than May 1st:
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Katharina Haverich
Katharina Haverich works at the intersection of media and theatre under the influence of dreams. As a conceptual performance and media artist, she stages dream-based sequences in digital and physical spheres. In real and unreal ways, Katharina co-founded the Virtual Club of Dangerous Women, unreal.theater and Radikale Töchter. Among others, she worked with Zentrum für Politische Schönheit, Emilio García Wehbi & Maricel Álvarez, Christopher Hotti Böhm, Letzte Generation and internil.
Katharina regularly gives talks and facilitates workshops in social virtual reality (VR) to explore the possibilities of avatarian co-presence. Together with diverse groups of participants she experiments with the use of social VR. Since the winter semester of 2022/23, she is a part-time lecturer for “Artistic Practice in the Metaverse*” at Berlin University of the Arts.