Programme HUB
Programme HUB
The online venue acts as a portal to metaspaces created by Polish artists. This is the first online show that explore and connect varies virtual galleries and projects of 3D spaces, such as “First VR Art Gallery” by Katarzyna Koba and Kamila Sitak, “Polish Bootleg Tpaes” by Marek Woźniak and Kamil Jędra, “Robot Diaries” by Anna Nierobisz, “Portfolio Room” by Krzysztof Syruć. During online events, such as curatorial tours, the public will be able to meet and chat with XR creators, producers and promoters of Polish XR.
The online venue can be visited via a VR headset or a web browser from a computer or a mobile device. The Hub is an extension of the physical exhibition at the BFI. A list of visitors and participants and the programme of live events will be announced in March on the XRossspace Showcase website.
WHEN: 30 March – 16 April
WHERE: XRossspace Hub
The awards ceremony (31 March) & curatorial walks (31 March , 1 April):
31 March 17:00 (BST)
Eternal Engine (Body Open Source)
Anna Nierobisz (Robot Diaries)
1 April 12:00 (BST)
Agnieszka Przybyszewska (AR & Storytelling)
Katarzyna Koba, Kamila Sitak (First VR Art Gallery)
Elwira Wojtunik (BestiARium)
Krzysztof Syruć (Portfolio Room)
Kamil Jędra + Team (Polish Bootleg Tapes)
Awards Selection Committee:
Marlena Łukasiak, Beata Calińska, Weronika M Lewandowska
#1
Robot Diaries
Robot Diaries
– Anna Nierobisz
“Robot Diaries” – a metaspace inspired by Stanislaw Lem’s literature – is a sci-fi immersive storytelling experience set in a robot care centre. The futuristic space station is filled with abandoned robots who need assistance to be brought to former glory. Traveling through the labyrinth of the centre participants get to know a handful of robots and are set on tasks to help them.
Credits:
Creative producer, writer, immersive media artist: Anna Nierobisz (Sensosis);
Partners: Robot Diaries have been developed as part of the Arts Council England Fund.
#2
Polish Bootleg Tapes
Polish Bootleg Tapes
– Marek Woźniak, Kamil Jędra
Metaspace VR “Polish Bootleg Tapes” presents a unique perspective on the pirate culture in Poland in the 80s and 90s. Thanks to new technologies, the public can take a close look at digitised 3D cassette tapes and their amateur covers, which were known only to fans within the grassroots circulation.
Credits:
Artist & Researcher: Marek Woźniak;
Creative Technologist & Researcher: Kamil Jędra,
Digital Artist: Nikodem Petryka;
Animation Supervisor: Bartłomiej Zając;
Technical Animator: Mateusz Szcześniak;
Automator & Tester: Piotr Ostapowicz.
#3
Portfolio Room
Portfolio Room
– Krzysztof Syruć
Krzysztof Syruć is a street art who specialises in colour research and abstract painting. During the pandemic, he created his first VRchat’s exhibition. He experiments with GIFs, photoshop loops, NFTs, hybrid live graffiti painting and architecture design with AR. In “Portfolio Room” he will present his digital creations and digitised works.
#4
First VR Art Gallery
First VR Art Gallery
– Katarzyna Koba and Kamila Sitak
The “First VR Art Gallery” is the first online exhibition venue in Poland that conducts regular vernissages in a virtual environment. It looks for the best way of converting traditional painting and photography to a metaspace for real time events. Each virtual exhibition is an opportunity to meet an international audience of digital spaces.
Credits:
Project authors: Katarzyna Koba & Kamila Sitak;
Implementation of technology: RoboKoba Katarzyna Koba;
Curator: Artkam Kamila Sitak;
Partner: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
#5
AR & Storytelling
AR & Storytelling
– video documentation
What can be hidden “on the other side” of a book, poster or postcard? Students of creative writing and new media art tried to answer that question in their projects by using AR technology not as an interesting addition to storytelling, but its integral component (e.g. by revealing subsequent layers of memories).
Credits:
Workshops tutors: dr Agnieszka Przybyszewska (University of Lodz), Marcin Wichrowski (Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw);
AR works: “A Postcard From Past Self” by Martyna Ciesielska, Monika Staroń, Amalia Podgórska, Jakub Serafiński; “Happy Birthday?” by Agata Pietras, Natalia Krupko; “The fortune Teller” by Maria Domińczak, Aleksandra Niedźwiedzka, Nourhan Gomaa, Ivan Izotau.
#6
The Scorpion Armchair
The Scorpion Armchair
– 3D scan, Eternal Engine
What if a gaming chair merged with the player’s imagination or a game world? Eternal Engine presents a 3D scan of the armchair that “answers” this question and at the same time can play as a comfortable bridge between two worlds – physical and virtual.
Credits:
The 3D scan is a digital twin of a physical object created by Eternal Engine: Jagoda Wójtowicz, Martix Nawrot in collaboration with Karolina Grygier and Grzegorz Ciamciach.
#7
BESTIARIUM
BESTIARIUM
– Photon Foundation
Dragons of the BESTIARIUM can be found as AR works not only at the physical space of the BFI, but also as 3D sculptures at the virtual venue of XRossspace Showcase. This transition is an attempt to scale the AR experience to the metaspace and to find the new or common quality of two different art experiences, two various exhibition surroundings.
Credits:
Concept: Photon Foundation: Elwira Wojtunik, Popesz Csaba Láng;
Coordination and programming: Popesz Csaba Láng;
AR works: 3D dragons of “BESTIARIUM”;
Partner: The project was co-financed by the City of Krakow.
#8
Robots of “Cosmogonic”
Robots of “Cosmogonic”
- dir. Paweł Szarzyński
Robots of “Cosmogonic” in the XRossspace Hub are sneak peaks of the fantastic virtual world of the animation created by director Paweł Szarzyński and his team. We introduce to the public the power of 3D elements that can travel endlessly between digital spaces and stories.
Credits:
Director: Paweł Szarzyński;
Co-Director: Igor Żukowicz;
Co-Writer: Lauren Dubowski, Paweł Szarzyński (adaptation of “Uranium Earpieces” by Stanisław Lem);
Music: Music: Piotr Kurek;
Production Company: Kinhouse Studio, Marta Szarzyńska;
Co-Production Company: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, National Center of Culture, Mazovia Film Fund, Aura Films;
Partners: Film Co-Financed by the Polish Film Institute, In Collaboration With, LOCOMOTIVE, LOCO XR.
