S+T+ARTS Residency: New Modes of Mobility
S+T+ARTS Residency
New Modes of Mobility
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Meet the Local Expert Group
Each consortium partner has gathered a Local Expert Group involving 10 to 15 local and regional digital experts, scientists, leaders, entrepreneurs and art professionals. Participants have been chosen from all walks of life: business, politics, civil society, academia, arts, media.
Partners have set up meetings with their Local Expert Groups to receive their support and expertise in designing the open call and the development and production phase of the residencies. Through the involvement and engagement of their Local Expert Groups, partners aim to expand the opportunities for interaction and collaborative action at the regional, national, and global levels.
Artist-in-Residence
Felix Gaedtke (NowHere Media) is the artist-in-residence for the S+T+ARTS Residency "New Modes of Mobility“. In collaboration with Vincent Productions, he created the artwork Berlin 2037.
Berlin 2037
© Moritz Mayerhofer
How would Berlin look, sound, smell and feel with friendlier mobility infrastructure? In Berlin 2037, a teenage girl with a radical desire for change invites you to hop on a VR-enabled bicycle and ride into her utopia.
Berlin 2037 is a multisensory cyber-physical installation that connects a bicycle to a virtual reality headset. In the fictional narrative experience, you meet Maya, 14, a computer and 3D animation nerd living in Berlin, who recently broke her wrist when a truck knocked her off her bike in heavy traffic. Determined to use her digital skills to transform her city, Maya sets herself a mission to create a virtual version of her Berlin; a version that’s child-friendly, safe and sustainable.
You are invited to try the prototype of her VR experience. Pedal the bicycle in your real world to steer your virtual journey into an alternative urban universe with less private cars, exclusively sustainable energy, new forms of housing, and new forms of work.
Large scale photogrammetry scans of Berlin today combine imagined, futuristic CG animations to tell a scientifically sound story.
The experience gives you food for thought - can we imagine a sustainable and thriving future for all of us? How can we get there and what may be the hurdles?
Berlin 2037 is exhibited in :REWORLD at MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan as part of the S+T+ARTS exhibition series Repairing the Present :REWORLD :REWILD :RETOOL, October 4 - 30, 2022.
More information: www.starts.eu/what-we-do/regional-centers/repairing-the-present-exhibitions/
Installation views, :REWORLD at MEET Digital Culture Centre in Milan, Credit: Stefan Grosjean
This Artwork is realized by NowHere Media and Vincent Productions and co-commissioned by STATE with the support of the RISE Cities Program of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt and the S+T+ARTS program of the European Union.
