Metalogues 2022: Virtual event

Metalogues2022 is a 3-part event, designed to encourage and explore XR collaborations in the cultural space. The second part of Metalogues brings together experts, from all over Europe, to a virtual all-day event for introducing their ideas and projects, and to discuss the state of the cultural-XR space. Participation in the event is a unique opportunity for artists, New Tech professionals, cultural institutions, researchers, and anyone interested to explore new approaches in cultural storytelling or the arts, by means of eXtended - Augmented and Virtual - Reality technologies. It also provides a stage to the participants at the Metalogues Workshops for introducing their concepts to the world, some of which will be developed into proofs-of-concept to be exhibited and promoted at the Beyond-Expo in the framework of Metalogues.   

The online event of July 8th will include:

• Talks and roundtable discussions on available XR technologies
• Examples from the gaming/entertainment industry, new media and artistic collaborations
• Speed networking meetings and group talks
• Presentation of the featured workshop projects

An excellent panel of speakers from Greece, Turkey, Germany, France, Serbia and the UK, will be drawing from their own experience in cultural-XR collaborations and their perspectives as artists, curators, researchers and XR professionals, to reflect on the past, the present and the future of XR applications in cultural practices, to present projects and case studies, to discuss opportunities and challenges in cultural-XR collaborations, and to answer questions from a curious audience.

Exciting insights into XR applications in cultural practices, will be shared with the event’s attendants by:

• Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, Scientific associate / curator, Beyond Matter
• Ahmet Rüstem Ekici, Artist
• Tina Lorenz, Director of Digital Department, State Theatre Augsburg
• Ljiljana Radosevic,  Researcher and curator at Street Art Belgrade
• Danai Mavridou,  Interaction Designer _ Architect Tetragon

A virtual roundtable discussion on cultural-XR collaborations moderated by Panos Voulgaris, Creative Director of
Malvi, & Program Partner, with Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás and Ljiljana (Lilyana) Radosevic, will be further joined by: 

• Tina Sauerländer, Co-Founder & CEO Radiance VR, Director & Head Curator peer to space
• Simon Barratt, CEO & Co-founder Cooperative Innovations
• Antoine Cardon, Co-founder & Producer EL-GABAL
• Victor Pardhino, CEO Sense of Space

Detailed program: Metalogues - Program Online Event

The language of the event is English and participation is free after registration. For more information about Metalogues, the speakers, and for your registration at the online event, please visit: www.metalogues.eu.  

Registered audience can participate with or without VR headsets, either as avatars from the AltspaceVR virtual platform (requires downloading) or via Zoom. Links and further information will be provided to participants before the event.

Metalogues is an initiative of the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki conducted in cooperation with Malvi creative agency, supported by the Academy of International Extended Reality and TIF-Helexpo, and funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.