The growth of XR (Extended Reality) scenarios (Augmented & Virtual Realities, Metaverse…), raises serious social and cultural issues. The Realities in Transition project aims at addressing these by thinking and promoting a common, open and sustainable XR, at a European level.
To do so, the activation of an active, thinking Creative and Activist European XR community is needed.

XR technology, as the latest instantiation of our escape into the virtual, has now reached a point from which we are no longer bound to our physical bodies, substituting conscious experience of our physical environments for experimentally controlled, simulated, and multisensorial contexts.

In an online streaming event, Eric and Isjtar presented CREWs work past and future in the form of a lecture performance. Participants were guided through the CREW studio.

More and more, artists from dance, theatre, circus, etc. are taking advantage of digital technologies to explore new connections between real and virtual worlds and to reinvent the relationship with the audience. Thus, the hybridisation, virtualisation and augmentation of live performance are redefining the boundaries of the stage space. This workshop focused on the development of new uses of immersive and interactive technologies adapted to the performing arts, which enhance the audience’s experience.

Have you ever heard of a Dreamachine? In this workshop, tested, tried, discovered and experimented with creating new worlds and dimensions using various sensory deprivation and sensory overload techniques. Together explored how to hack your senses using the most straightforward methods possible.

Virtual Reality is not just a novelty, but a maturing, emergent medium that challenges us with new ways of making music and art. The Patchathon was a chance for artists to work expressively right on that bleeding edge. It has set artists loose on in-development environment with the musical tools necessary to realize the full gamut of their imaginative possibilities.

The 1-hour workshop took place on October 26, 2023, at KONTEJNER venue in Zagreb (HR). It was mentored by Sieta van Horck and Boris Debackere from V2_.

The 2-day workshop took place on October 27 and 28, 2023 at KONTEJNER venue in Zagreb (HR). The presentation of the workshop results was organized on October 28 at KONTEJNER venue.

The 5-hour workshop took place on October 26, 2023, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (Croatia). The workshop was organized in collaboration with Dark Euphoria. It was created and mentored by a creative technologist Jean Dellac and Raphaël Chênais of Dark Euphoria.

The two-hour workshop took place on October 26, 2023, in and around the Musem of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (HR). It was mentored by the artists and designers Pedro Gil Farias and Hugo Pilate.

Renee Turners’ garden in Rotterdam is not too far from the city centre, roughly three and a half kilometres from V2. The SNV community allotment was established in 1938 for working-class city dwellers, mostly factory workers, to grow fruits and vegetables on what would have otherwise been unused land. While the gardens remained active over generations, the complex has been reduced to a third of its original size, and with the pressure of urban sprawl, its future remains precarious.