A look inside your own four walls

On 4 June, the third edition of theVRHAM! festivals Hamburg - as a home edition due to the current situation. But when visitors to the Virtual Reality Festival put on their VR goggles at home on 4 June, two groups will have already been in action for around two weeks: the VRHAM! Residencies. Two teams who will work on their projects together with a mentor and present them in the digital space for around 30 minutes on 7 June. What can you expect? Here's a little preview:

Tyrant, victim or uninvolved bystander? You can slip into one of these three roles with your avatar in the VR project "Captured" by Hanna Haaslahti. However, you are not travelling alone with your virtual image in the simulation, but in a group. Individual freedom is given up in favour of collective instincts. A disturbing scenario that is already well known from recent history. Haaslathi is working on the project together with the companies Fantomatico Oy and High Road Stories, a virtual self-experiment that should provide food for thought. The team is being mentored by Dutch choreographer, dancer and teacher Anouk van Dijk.

The smallest of the worlds is our own. Our home. More important than ever in times of corona. Joan Soler-Adillon, Uwe Brunner and Bettina Katja Lange want to capture this treasure trove of stories and precious memories with their VR project "The smallest of worlds - A social landscape of collected privacy". In the sense of a shared domestic landscape. Over the next few days, the three are calling on the internet community to diligently send them video footage from home. "A virtual diorama that depicts fragments of our everyday lives in times of social distancing and self-isolation," reads the official press release. The trio came together as part of the IMMENSIVA VR/AI Residence 2020 in Barcelona. They are currently working with mentor Fabien Siouffi, founder of the VR newspaper "Fabbula".

The residencies are a collaboration between the VRHAM! Festival with the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and the North Sea Region Interreg project Create Converge.