Tina Sauerlaender: VIRTUAL WORLDS – Creating and Curating Digital Art

Thursday, November 4, 2021 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm CET/GMT+1 
Lecture
P24, Seminar Room 8

BCB is pleased to invite Berlin-based curator Tina Sauerlaender to an on-campus discussion concerning her working with artists that use Augmented and Virtual Realities in their practice. She will outline the possibilities of exhibiting VR art in museums and showcasing artworks through apps or online websites, including the current AR intervention "Augmented Species – Invasive Sculptures in Hybrid Ecologies" that is currently experienceable at the Neue Nationalgalerie here in Berlin. This lecture is part of the seminar of John von Bergen's "FA199 – Virtual Reality in The Artist's Studio".

Tina Sauerlaender is an art historian, curator, speaker and writer based in Berlin. She focuses on the impact of the digital and the internet on individual environments and society as well as on virtual reality in visual arts. She is Artistic Director of the VR ART PRIZE by DKB in Cooperation with CAA Berlin. With her independent exhibition platform peer to space she has been curating and organizing international group shows since 2010, e.g. The Unframed World. Virtual Reality as Artistic Medium for the 21st Century at HeK Basel in 2017. She is Co-founder of Radiance VR, an international online platform and research database for virtual reality experiences in visual arts. She is a PhD Candidate at The University of Art and Design Linz, Austria. Her research topic is artistic self-representation in digital art. She gave talks on Virtual Reality & Art at re:publica (Berlin), ZKM (Karlsruhe), New Inc (New York), Kunsthalle (Munich), University of Applied Arts (Vienna), Digifest (Toronto), Technical University (Prague) or Roehrs & Boetsch (Zurich).

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