iX Symposium: The Conquest of Reality

Opening Talk: 30.05.2018, 9.30 Uhr; Symposium: 29.05. bis 2.06.2018 Society for Arts and Technologie (SAT), Montreal, Canada

Tamiko Thiel, Gastprofessorin bei Interface Cultures, hält im Rahmen des Symposiums einen Vortrag und beteiligt sich mit ihrer Arbeit "Gardens of the Anthropocene" an der Ausstellung.

Opening Talk 
Symposium program 

Tamiko Thiel, Invited Professor at the University of Art and Design Linz, Austria will be giving the Opening Talk on her work and  exhibiting a site-specific Montreal edition of her AR artwork "Gardens of the Anthropocene".

The “Reality Race” is picking up speed with the growing successes of the VR platforms, the commitment of tech giants behind XR authoring and delivery workflows and the expansion of the Fulldome network. They are accelerated by progress in sensory expansion, deep machine learning, immersive computing, and ubiquitous cloud technologies rapidly transforming the World as we have known it. “Reality” in every sense of the word, is gaining depth, growing in complexity, and expanding the time-space horizons. This is a wonderful context to dive into the concepts, technologies and artistry of the experience of immersion.

iX Symposium was born in 2014 and is an initiative by Montreal’s Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). Every year, iX welcomes artists, designers, researchers, developers, producers, and all those who are curious and passionate about immersive experiences. For this vibrant community, iX is where the latest hardware, creative workflows and distribution platforms meet seasoned innovators and talented creators.

The iX program is open and participatory, with an emphasis on workshops, demonstrations, lightning talks and premieres of groundbreaking artworks in the Satosphere (SAT’s state of the art large dome), the XR Sensorium and the neighbouring public spaces. These are all exemplary of the best practices in the immersive experiences creation and distribution ecosystem. iX 2018 participants will be invited to learn and teach one another, and to collectively forge the agenda for the medium of our time and spin its development.

Including daily workshops, panels, artist presentations and immersive experiences.

Speakers/Artists & their works:
GARDENS OF THE Anthropocene (RA),Tamiko Thiel (Munich / Seattle)
BE HERE (RA) ,Masaki Fujihata (Tokyo)
ENEMY (RA) ,Karim Ben Khelifa (Paris)
SPACE EXPLORER (VR + HAPTICS) ,Felix & Paul (Montreal)
DECENTRALAND (WEB IMMERSIVE) ,Trevor Waldorf (Boston)
Abtec ISLAND (VR + VIDEO GAME) ,Jason Lewis and Skawennati (Montreal)
EAGLE FLIGHT (VR) ,Ubisoft, in collaboration with D-Box (Montreal)
Matérialité, construction en cours – Priam Givord (Toronto)
Paragirls - Volker Kuchelmeister (Sydney)
The Tangle of Mind and Matter – Rebecca Allen (Los Angeles)
Papyrus Rudiments – Jean-Louis Boissier (Paris)
Near-Field Audio and Mobility - Peter Otto (San Diego) & Zack Settel (Montréal)
Musique d’orchestre – Luc Martinez (Nice) & Zack Settel (Montréal)
Tim – Nicolas Noël Jodoin (Montréal)
Head Scanner – Antti Vanne (Helsinki)
Levitation – Bastien Didier & David Guez (Paris)
La Boîte à insultes – Emmanuel Albano (Ottawa)
Playroom – Isaac Cohen (San Francisco)
V-Dreams – Li Alin (Berlin)
MasterpieceVR – Jonathan Gagné (Ottawa)
Hanahana – Mélodie Mousset (Zurich)