Panel Statement

Keywords: Fulldome, media art, artistic research, cultural exchange, immersive, interactive, transdisciplinary, performance, mobile labs

This paper comprises the E/M/D/L [European Mobile Dome Lab] panel presentations which the activities and outcomes of the artistic research carried out during the international collaboration funded by the European Culture Programme (Strand 1.3.5). E/M/D/L built an international network for the exchange of artistic and technological expertise, with the goal of researching and documenting a language and grammar unique to the fulldome medium. Bringing together four European and three Canadian institutions and cultural partners, all leaders in the fulldome field, the project aimed to share and expand skills, methodologies, strategies and content under this creative and highly productive umbrella. Between February 2014 and September 2015, the participants took part in eight residencies and public presentations offered in five countries, clustered around domic architectural structures equipped with cutting-edge technologies. This culminated a series of works presented at the world’s most sophisticated virtual theatre, the Satosphere in Montreal, Canada.

• Dimitris Charitos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, where he teaches human-machine communication, interactive design, digital art and visual communication. He studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens, and C.A.A.D. in the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK). He holds a PhD in interactive and virtual environments design. His artistic practice includes electronic music, audiovisual and interactive installations and virtual environments. He has participated in exhibitions in Greece, the UK and Cyprus. As a researcher or coordinator, he has participated in research projects (funded by Greek and European programs) on the subjects of virtual reality, locative media, digital art and multimedia.  vedesign.gr
• Martin Kusch studied art history, philosophy and painting in Berlin, Germany, and media arts with Peter Weibel at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, where he has also been teaching since 1997. Founder and artistic co-director of the Media performance group kondition pluriel, he is particularly interested in the transformation processes of the electronic media inside performative contexts, and on how digital technologies influence our perception of the body and space. His works have been presented at numerous
  festivals and institutions, such as: Ars Electronica (Linz), ISEA, ZKM (Karlsruhe), Transmediale (Berlin), CYNETart (Dresden), EMPAC (Troy), Le Centre des arts d’Enghien les bains (Enghien), the Mois Multi (Quebec City) and the Museumsquartier Wien (Vienna). konditionpluriel.org
• Mike Phillips is Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at Plymouth University, UK, the Director of Research at iDAT.org and a Principal Supervisor for the Planetary Collegium. His R&D orbits a portfolio of projects that explore the ubiquity of data ‘harvested’ from an instrumentalised world and its potential as a material for revealing things that lie outside our normal frames of reference – things so far away, so close, so massive, so small and so ad infinitum. He manages the Fulldome Immersive Vision Theatre, a transdisciplinary instrument for manifesting (im)material and imaginary worlds and is co-editor of Ubiquity, The Journal of Pervasive Media.   i-dat.org/mike-phillips
• Marie-Claude Poulin is trained in dance and kinanthropology at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, and holds an MA in Choreography at the Inter-University Center for  Dance in Berlin, Germany. Between 1985 and 2000, she has taught in the field of somatic education and has worked as a performer, notably with choreographers Benoît Lachambre and Meg Stuart. In 2000, she co-founded the digital performance group kondition pluriel. Her works have been presented at numerous festivals and institutions, such as: ISEA, ZKM (Karlsruhe), Transmediale (Berlin), CYNETart (Dresden), EMPAC (Troy), Le Centre des arts d’Enghien les bains (Enghien), the Mois Multi (Quebec City) and the Museumsquartier Wien (Vienna). Since 2013, she is a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria.  konditionpluriel.org
• Ruth Schnell lives in Vienna. Her corpus of work, which includes video installations, interactive video environments, and light installations, explores the nature of human
  perception and the relationship between human perception and the human body. Ruth Schnell has been teaching at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, since 1987; since 2010 she has been head of Digital Arts Department. Solo and group exhibitions include: Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011), Bienal Internacional de Arte
  Contemporáneo de Sevilla/Biacs 3 (2009), ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2010 and 2008), Akademie der Künste Berlin (2004/05), California Science Center, Los Angeles (2004), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2002), mumok – museum moderner kunst stiftung Ludwig wien (2000), Biennale di Venezia / Austrian Pavillon (1995).    digitalekunst.ac.at

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