Kiel & Meppelink

Tool-Party #2: Virtual Blackbox

Please register until 10.1. at anmeldung@hebbel-am-ufer.de

  • Dialogue
  • Workshop
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The two artists Rabea Kiel and Matthias Mepperlink have developed “Virtual Blackbox”, a tool that can be used to control VR glasses live. The software works intuitively and can be used for the theatre stage without any prior programming knowledge. After a test phase last year and a final workshop at Ballhaus Ost, “Virtual Blackbox” has now been finalised. It will be open source and available free of charge from February.

Kiel & Meppelink will be presenting the tool exclusively before its release as part of an open lab at HAU3 Houseclub. Anyone interested in getting to know “Virtual Blackbox” is invited. In addition, six artists who worked with the software the day before under the topic “Objects of Desire” will present their results.

Desire encompasses a feeling of unattainability or the unquenchable hope for something beyond one's immediate life. Technological virtual immersion can create places of longing in several levels of reality. Can the simultaneously haptic and virtual encounter with objects be a mediator between realities? 

Cast

Concept, software, workshop: Kiel & Meppelink (Rabea Kiel, Matthias Meppelink) / Software development: Green Goat Media / Workshop: Karen Zimmermann & Elinor Hasselberg

Dates

Current
Sun 12.1.2025, 16:00 / HAU3 Houseclub

Credits

The software “Virtual Blackbox” is funded by: Funding programme for digital development in the cultural sector of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

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