Program

Prof. Charles Wuethrich and team –  Interactive Dome Media, experiments and examples, Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/medien/institute/digital-bauhaus-lab/people/prof-dr-charles-wuethrich/

Luka*s Friedland M.F.A. – "Games are beautiful. They do not need to be justified." The poetry of virtual-digital theatre machines https://lukaendgames.itch.io/mfa-thesis

Nicole Schmölzer (CH) –  Space Rhythms & Farbklang www.nicole-schmoelzer.ch  

Danielle Le Blanc – Boston Planetarium. Danielle LeBlanc is the Director of Immersive Theaters and Programs at the Museum of Science in Boston. She directs the strategic vision for the Charles Hayden Planetarium, the Mugar Omni Theater, their programs and infrastructure, and their teams. She brings over 21 years of experience developing and presenting interactive educational and inspiring presentations for Museum visitors; leads development of the Planetarium team’s fulldome experiences; oversees the Museum's Adult Programs team; and contributes to the production of arts, music, and innovative programming for the Museum's two large-format immersive domes.

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Dr. Susanne Paech – Contact attempt. art meets science. Foundation Herbert W. Franke Homepage | art meets science. November 2024 marked the 50th anniversary of the so-called Arecibo Message. In 1974, radio astronomer Frank Drake sent a scientifically designed radio message to aliens for the first time. This message from the then largest radio telescope in Arecibo prompted the Foundation Herbert W. Franke to issue a worldwide open call to generative artists to reflect this iconic event. The finalists were presented to the public at the planetariums in Hamburg and Bochum. Foundation board member Susanne Paech presents a best of the 149 submissions - including fulldome productions.

Jim Garrison PhD – The Case for Disclosure. President Ubiquity University / State of the World Forum. Jim Garrison had a lifetime of social and political activism beginning in the 1960s with the anti-war, anti-nuclear, citizen diplomacy and environmental movements. He founded Ubiquity University. He spent his professional life in executive leadership, including as co-founder and president of the Gorbachev Foundation/USA (1992 – 1995) and State of the World Forum (1995 – 2004, 2025) with Mikhail Gorbachev serving as convening chairman. Jim teaches a range of courses at Ubiquity in philosophy, history and global affairs. He advocates disclosure and a new approach to the UAP and NHI phenomenon.

Claire Dorweiler – Teaching and producing immersive media www.claire-dorweiler.de

Sergey Prokofyev ­– Fulldome as a gateway to speculating on the future of architecture. Sergey Prokofyev

Hadiseh Nabavinezhad – Education Management of Engarium Planetarium
University Campus, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Khorasan Razavi, Iran https://fum360.com

Panel ­– Immersive Art, Venues and Business Models

Moderator: Alexandra Wolf. Alexandra is a project manager, concept developer, curator and consultant in the fields of culture, media and science. From 2016 to 2023, she was the festival director and program director of re:publica Berlin - Europe's unique festival for the digitalized society. Alexandra studied Biology, Culture & Technology as well as Art Science & Art Technology. She also co-founded the agency selektor.berlin in 2017 and has been self-employed with “wolf project” since 2023. She currently works as project manager for the Festival of the Future 2025 and coordinates the project “Touching the Universe” for the Planetarium Berlin Foundation. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-wolf/

Panelists:

Nicole Koufou Attachée aux relations gouvernementales et aux affaires culturelles www.quebec.ca/berlin

Yasmin Yael Elias Sanchez – B-Dome, Berlin https://b-dome.com/ EVENT MANAGER, PRODUCTION MANAGER, PROGRAM CURATOR, ART HISTORIAN. From a young age, she began her journey as an artist in the captivating realm of electronic music, visuals, and video art. With over a decade of experience in event production, she is currently serving as the Director of the first permanent geodesic dome in Berlin, specifically designed for 360-degree events.The passion for innovation and creativity drives Yasmin in her ongoing quest to develop new artistic and cultural experiences for

Allison Moore – Cloud Bodies immersive performances. www.allisonmoore.net

Luisa Mantovani – Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig

Mike Phillips – Fulldome Immersive Vision Theatre www.i-dat.org/  Mike Phillips, is Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at Plymouth University and the Director of Research at i-DAT.org. His R&D orbits a portfolio of projects that explore the ubiquity of data ‘harvested’ from an instrumentalised world and its potential as a material for revealing things that lie outside our normal frames of reference - things so far away, so close, so massive, so small and so ad infinitum. He manages the Fulldome Immersive Vision Theatre (www.i-dat.org/ivt/), a transdisciplinary instrument for manifesting (im)material and imaginary worlds.

Kate Wellham Kate Wellham – Immersive obsessive

Tom Ammermann New Audio Technology www.newaudiotechnology.com Grammy-nominated music producer, Tom Ammermann, began his journey as a musician and music producer in the 1980s.  At the turn of the 21st Century, Tom produced unique surround audio productions for music and film projects as well as pioneering the very first surround mixes for headphones (binaural audio), which quickly established his binaural brand Headphone Surround 3D and reputation as an immersive audio producer. Currently, Tom is working on developing new technologies in spatial and next-generation audio whilst offering workshops and presentations at high-profile international audio conferences.  Some References: Terminator 2, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Expendables I-III, 5th Element, Peter Schilling and Kraftwerk 3D.

How to VJ in the Dome, and why?

Fairlix ­– Fairlix started creative coding as a kid. After some years of consulting, traveling, and exploring different fields of study, he eventually found his way back to where his heart is: Using nerdy low-level programming techniques and inspired by the demo scene, fairlix crafts real-time computer graphics aesthetics where beauty and technical finesse meet. He is also building tooling around his artworks, like an open source-touch controller application that can even invite audience interaction, or a platform for web-based art. https://www.instagram.com/fairlix

Juladi – VJ Juladi has been active in the video art scene since 2005. She has performed at multiple Events and Exhibitions in 29 countries, as well as lectured on video art in Mexico City and Berlin. She won the Mapping Festival VJ Competition 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland. She specializes in analog and handmade visuals. Responding live to music, she experiments with the movements of her hands and body in addition to placing various objects in front of the camera: feathers, leafs, fabrics, fire, etc. to create mesmerizing effects which are sent through a video mixer and out to a screen. For the last few years she has also been using her whole body for the visuals, starting to dance, perform and move in front of the screen and also uses the set up as an interactive installation, whereby everybody can start to do their own visuals with their bodies, hands, fabrics. www.juladi.de

Meisam Nemati ­Meisam Nemati aka Sulfation, began his artistic journey as an electronic music producer, later expanding into visual arts. Drawing from his background as a caricaturist and nearly 12 years as a mining engineer, his work includes surreal concepts and industrial elements. His journey as a dome producer was shaped by his involvement with SAT in Montreal. Based in Quebec, his immersive digital creations have been showcased globally in Germany, the UK, the US, Brazil, and Canada. Collaborations with NASA and the UN reflect the scope of his work. He is also an educator, sharing his expertise in interactive and immersive media. https://sulfation.net/