Framework Program (until 6 pm) with Coffee & Networking (until 7 pm)

1) Digital Media Production Playgrund – a collaboration with CCCberlin

BOOTH/WORKSHOP #01: From 2D to 3D – From Image to Model with meshy.ai
Workshop duration: 20-30 min. (with timeslots, sign in upon arrival at registration desk)
Julius Wenk, HTW Berlin
In this compact, hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to use AI to transform analogue or digital artwork into three-dimensional, animatable objects. Using the tools Meshy.ai and Mixamo, you’ll discover new forms of expression at the intersection of art, technology and movement – with absolutely no prior knowledge of 3D required.

BOOTH/WORKSHOP #02: Capturing Reality – Mobile 3D Scanning
Workshop duration: 20-30 min. (with timeslots, sign in upon arrival at registration desk)
Erasmus Schmidt, HTW Berlin
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to capture real-world objects and spaces using your smartphone and transform them into usable digital data. Using tools like Polycam and Scaniverse, you will explore different approaches to translating the physical world into precise 3D models and immersive scenes.

BOOTH/WORKSHOP #03: Embodied Interface
Workshop duration: 30 min. (with timeslots, sign in upon arrival at registration desk)
Warja Rybakova, DOCKdigital
This station explores motion capture workflows through Rokoko Vision, an AI motion capture tool, alongside a demonstration of the Rokoko Smartsuit Pro II. Participants will learn how AI tracking transforms human movement into digital animation data in real time, while comparing it with sensor-based full-body capture systems.

CCCberlin connects Berlin-based artists working in the performing arts, visual arts and film/video art – through events, consultancy and developing strategies for audiences and the market.

2) Inspiring XR and AI projects developed at HTW Berlin

Phygital Intimacy – Participatory Mixed Reality Performance for Togetherness
Transforming motion into sound – standalone version, 2025
A collaboration between AURORA XR School for Artists and Lisa Kaschubat, Tasha Hess-Neustadt and Jane Arnison (with timeslots, sign in upon arrival at registration desk)

Inspired by Sophie K. Rosa’ s concept of radical intimacy—which emphasizes care and community as acts of political resistance—Phygital Intimacy explores how current technologies can serve as bridges for connection. The project seeks to create moments of intimacy and togetherness among co-performers, as well as between human and machine.

FrameShift
By Jaro Samuel Abraham, Alexandar Atanasov, Lisa Ayimah, Oliver Fritz, Lorenz Vincent Gerau, Marlon Meik Lino Kaasche, Emily Krüger, Thien Vu David Nguyen, Alicia Nordmann, Gordian Matteo Reinhold, Tade Strehk (students of Prof. Habakuk Israel)

FrameShift 2 merges surrealism with augmented reality, transforming static art into an immersive experience. Using AR technology combined with a custom-built frame, viewers look behind and even out of the canvas into the virtual atelier of artist Mac Zimmermann. The installation makes it possible to experience the series »Die Tageszeiten« (The Daytimes) as a living 3D model, blurring the lines between dream and reality. Inspired by the STRANGE! exhibition at Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, this project was developed by students of Computer Science in Culture and Health at HTW Berlin.

Gene2Images – Face your genes
By Lennart Koch, Lea Feilberg, Pedro Philippi Araujo and Xenia Kukushkina (students of Prof. Thomas Manke)

This project visualizes high-dimensional data using breast cancer as an example. Breast cancer has different subtypes that require different treatments. The students trained a classification model on gene expression data to identify these subtypes and reduce each sample to a 512-dimensional representation—the format used by modern AI image generators. These representations are then transformed into unique faces. Faces from the same subtype show surprising similarities, making complex data visually intuitive and showing how science and art can complement each other. Visitors are invited to play an interactive game: classify the generated faces yourself and compare your intuition with our AI model. Can you beat it?

Hyper-Irrealism III — Rising Spaces
By 14 students of Prof. Pablo Dornhege

In this immersive experience, communication design students from HTW Berlin explore how 3D scanning, virtual reality, and creative tools can blur the boundaries between reality and imagination. Starting from Berlin’s RAW-Gelände in Friedrichshain, they scan the cassiopeia venue and its surroundings using smartphone apps and 360° panoramic photography. These scans were transformed into hyper-surreal space-sound installations — explorable as shared VR worlds by up to four people simultaneously.

3) Consultation / Funding

Kreativ Kultur Berlin – Cultural Funding Consultation
Kreativ Kultur Berlin’s cultural funding consultation introduces itself and its services, and provides information on funding for cultural and artistic projects.