As new technology continues to shape our lives, how can we use these tools to envision a society that reflects our shared values?
A Kung-Fu studio lead by Master Tak Wah Eng at 16 Bowery, in Manhattan's Chinatown.
Register here“Reflections: A Digital Memory Workshop in Chinatown (Montreal)” is a 6-hour workshop facilitated by Chloé Lee, creator of Temporal World (SXSW 2023). In the workshop, she shares her creative process, guiding groups and individuals to reflect on their communities through writing exercises, interviews and experimentation with AI image generation. The workshop is for anyone: people of all skill levels, backgrounds and ages, and all needed technology will be provided. We will reflect on what community means to each of us. By the end of the day, our creations will be installed and shown in a collective 3D interactive virtual gallery built with Unity. The gallery showcases the work and ideas created by the mix of people who come for this one-day event.
These workshops, held throughout 2024 in Berlin, New York City and Montréal, are part of a socially engaged process-oriented virtual reality project, Inter(mediate) Spaces. Through experimenting with technology and reflecting on community, participants’ contributions become the basis of the custom AI system in the long-term virtual reality project which aims to challenge the status quo of popular AI systems.
This event has been funded by Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg.
For further questions contact us at info@presentfutures.de.
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WORKSHOP AGENDA
12:00pm to 2:15pm
Introductions to each other
Introduction to the project
Guided writing reflection
Discussion and sharing
Brief introduction to technology/image generation demo
Break with food and drinks provided
2:30pm to 6:00pm
Open Lab (rotating stations):
- Image generation on laptops (provided)
- One-on-one conversations with Chloé (180 degree video interviews)
- Audio recording booth
Sharing the final project - Presenting the virtual gallery showcase
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WORKSHOP HOSTS
Chloé Lee - Lead Facilitator
Chloé has over a decade of experience producing artistic, film and digital work. Using audiovisual, haptic and extended reality technologies, she explores where digital and analog worlds meet, reflecting on themes of migration through discovery and documentation.
As a 2022 Germany Fulbright Scholar, Chloé created the VR project, Temporal World (SXSW 2023). She has been a researcher at Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and in 2023, she co-founded the media production studio, Present Futures, with Lucas Martinic. Her upcoming project, Inter(mediate) Spaces, is in development.
Lucas Martinic - XR Experience Developer
Lucas is an XR developer, mentor, and asset creator with over five years of experience in Unity and XR applications. His interests lie in multiplayer and shared immersive experiences, and he actively contributes to the growth of the industry.As an organizer of the Berlin Unity Meetup, Lucas fosters connections among XR enthusiasts. He mentors emerging XR developers at XR Bootcamp, consults startups, creates multiplayer VR assets for the Unity Asset Store, and contributes to immersive VR learning platforms. Lucas is a programmer, musician and creator. From developing games for his sisters at the age of 9, to touring the world with his music project, Trementina, to becoming a VR software engineer, his passion revolves around creating shared experiences for himself and others.