GMU:CRITICAL VR LAB

Lecturer: Jörg Brinkmann
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS
Date: Tuesdays, 17:00 - 20:30
Venue: Performance Platform, Digital Bauhaus Lab (Room 001)
First meeting: Tuesday, April 10th 2018, 17:00

This course emphasises artistic and opposing ways of working with Virtual Reality. Its aim is to establish individual approaches to VR, an increasingly widespread medium which offers artists new possibilities for expression and intercultural communication.

The practical part will be an Introduction to Unity 3D and Blender. We will look into contemporary and digital art related to recent sociopolitical and mediaphilosophical topics. We will create an artistic discourse on the topic of VR which will be presented in the form of individual projects at the end of the semester.

CRITERIA FOR PASSING
In order to successfully participate you will have to develop and document your own project that can be in the form of a performance, video work or installation for example. Also, regularly attend to the sessions and participation is mandatory.

LANGUAGE
The course will be in English, unless all participants are speaking German.

APPLICATION
Please send a motivation letter before October 10th, 2017 to joerg.brinkmann@uni-weimar.de

Subject: CRITICAL VR

Content:

• Your motivation to join the course
• If you have a portfolio, webpage or any links or PDFs of your own projects, please attach them. It doesn't have to relate to the class
• Name, Surname
• program and semester (Studienprogramm und Fachsemester)
• matriculation number (Matrikelnummer)

PROJECTS