Upcoming Events

UnStumm | Transatlantic Movements

Nov 10, 2022
7pm (UTC +1) technical introduction
8pm (UTC +1) performance

bUm – Raum für solidarisches Miteinander, Paul-Linke Ufer 21, 10999 Berlin

organized and curated by Claudia Schmitz & Nicola L. Hein
in collaboration with programmers Sven Hahne and Marco Gajardo
AR stage concept by Claudia Schmitz

With UnStumm | Transatlantic Movements, Claudia Schmitz and Nicola L. Hein invite artists from Argentina, US and Germany to a telematic real-time performances with dance, video and sound in mixed reality.

Using the UnStumm AR App, as well as AR Glasses and headphones, the project Transatlantic Movements develops the completely new format of a telematic Mixed Reality Performance in real time – between the USA and Germany. It brings together 6 artists from the disciplines of dance, media art and music. The audio and video streams produced by the artists, by the means of video art, music and movement, will be projected with the UnStumm – Augmented Voyage AR app.
The audience in Berlin will join the artists from Germany (Colusi, Hein, Schmitz) at bUm (Berlin), while the artists from the USA (Masaoka, Alpert Collwes) will perform with them in a telematic fashion.
The whole performance can only be perceived as an Augmented Reality Experience, using the UnStumm Augmented Voyage app, a pair of VR Smartphone glasses and headphones (provided by UnStumm). Please bring your own smartphone and/or tablet and headphones!

Participating Artists:

Kim Alpert – live moving image
Maria Colusi – dance
Brandon Collwes – dance
Miya Masaoka – electronics
Nicola L. Hein – guitar, electronics
Claudia Schmitz – live moving image onto sculpture

Supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the programme
NEUSTART KULTUR, tanz digital support programme of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland

special thanks to bUm Berlin – Raum für engagierte Zivilgesellschaft

UnStumm | Augmented Voyage at “Arts in immersive Media 101”
Rochester Contemporary Art Center

Aug 16 – Sept 13, 2022

Led by series organizer Rebekkha Palov and featuring a Virtual Reality demo organized by The Institute for Electronic Art

Rochester Contemporary Art Center

UnStumm | NonArtificial Liveness

Sept 03 2022

MEX – intermedial and experimental music projects – Künstlerhaus Sunderweg 1, Dortmund

With “NonArtificial Liveness” Nicola L. Hein and Claudia Schmitz develop the interaction between two human artists and two A.I. artists in a live audiovisual performance.
In the run-up to the performance, Schmitz and Hein have trained two A.I. entities on the content of their artistic work and will further develop it together during the performance.

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UnStumm | NonArtificial Liveness

June 15th, 2022 – 19:00 (UTC+2)

Neuland 2, Tonhalle Düsseldorf

The tonhalle announces:

“Nine creative experimental arrangements will be presented at the Düsseldorf Artlab:”

The lineup in the order of the performances:

Frederike Möller & Michalis Nicolaides / INTERSTELLAR 2 2 7 & Norbert van Ackeren & Swantje Lichtenstein / Arturo Castro Nogueras & Nyani Quarmyne / Ensemble Krunk & Rymon Zacharei / Rolf A. Scheider und Thomas Hinz & Lydia Drontmann / Angela Froemer & Ralf Herrnkind / Thomas Klein & Karen Bößer / Leonhard Bartussek & Sabrina Haunsperg / Unstumm: Nicola L. Hein & Claudia Schmitz

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UnStumm | Augmented Movements | PREMIERES
Rep. of Korea | Germany

June 17th, 2022 – 16:00-17:30 (UTC +2)

organized and curated by Claudia Schmitz & Nicola L. Hein
in collaboration with programmers Sven Hahne and Marco Gajardo

With UnStumm | Augmented Movements, Claudia Schmitz and Nicola L. Hein invite artists from Korea and Germany to a telematic real-time performances with dance, video and sound in augmented reality.

The international artists encounter each other in audiovisual interactions and project those onto augmented reality sculptures and virtual loudspeakers, as well have augmented reality dancing bodies.

PREMIERES in 2022

The audience participates in the telematic augmented reality performance by means of the UnStumm IOS / Android app via their own smartphone or tablet. The app can be downloaded from the UnStumm website and enables both the participation in three-dimensional live performances and the subsequent streaming of past performances.

Using the user’s own smartphone as 3D glasses, UnStumm | Augmented Movements brings the artists’ performances into the presence of the audience’s lifeworld.

Participating Artists:

Mimi Jeong – dance (https://jeongmimi.net/)
Sejin Kim – synthetic live video (www.sejinkimstudio.com)
Ingo Reulecke – dance (http://ingoreulecke.com/about)
Jin Sangtae – prepared hard drives, electronics (http://popmusic25.com/?page_id=109)
Nicola L. Hein – guitar, buchla, electronics (http://www.nicolahein.com)
Claudia Schmitz – live moving image onto sculptures (http://www.cces-claudiaschmitz.de)

17 JUNE (all UTC+2)

PREMIERE 1: 4:00 pm – 4:20 pm
PREMIERE 2: 4:30 pm – 4:50 pm
PREMIERE 3: 5:00 pm – 5:20 pm

Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste Ministerium für Familie, Frauen, Kultur und Intagration RLP with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

special thanks to bUm Berlin – Raum für engagierte Zivilgesellschaft