15:00 – 18:30 Fulldome 360° Filmfestival (Tagesticket I)
19:30- 21:00 The gray cloth – Immersives Musiktheater (englisch)
There is also a COMBI ticket for all FullDome Festival fans. For €29.00 or €20.00 reduced, you can enjoy the entire daytime programme and the immersive theater in the evening. Celebrate with the international fulldome scene in virtual space.
For the 19th time, we are opening the doors of the oldest planetarium in the world for the
international FullDome Festival 2025. The FullDome Festival shows the best 360° films
produced in the past year. The films are created by professional producers, young talents and
innovative artists and some of them celebrate their world premiere.
The best productions will be nominated for the JANUS Awards, the „Oscar“ of the fulldome scene, on 17 May 2025. In addition to the fulldome films, the programme also includes the Frameless Forum presentations. Innovations from the fields of fulldome, media art, electronic art, virtual reality and 3D sound will be presented for discussion.
The day ticket includes the entire festival programme with all performances, film screenings and
technology talks for one day.
The day ticket does not include the immersive theater „the grey cloth“ in the evening.
There is also a COMBI ticket for all FullDome Festival fans. For €29.00 or €20.00 reduced, you can enjoy the entire daytime programme and the immersive theater in the evening. Celebrate with the international fulldome scene in virtual space.
For more insider news follow us on Instragram: fulldome_festival
The film, performance and lecture programme will be published soon on www.fulldome-festival.de.
There will be video recordings of the events. Some of the films contain stroboscopic effects and fast image sequences.
Elements of Air, Bìlá, Gabriela.
Cosmonaute 360: Time to Fly, Pérez Irigoyen, Damné Jesú.
Orbital, Reid, Guy.
Stars: Looking into the Infinity, Non-Governmental Organization
Immortelle, Katcho, Line.
Demo:Dome, Chuang Ho.
Queen of The Mountains, Tsuchiya, Erika.
Balance, Hache, Jonah.
Allies of ascension, Lapointe, Pierre.
Future Proof, Saul, Michael J.
Stars of Classic, Sawallisch, Robert.
THE GRAY CLOTH – Immersive Music Theatre. English version
The unassuming title is deceptive. “The Gray Cloth” is a colorful 360° theater production with live orchestra, based on Paul Scheerbart's novel “Das Graue Tuch und zehn Prozent Weiß” (The Gray Cloth and Ten Percent White). Published in 1914, it is set in a fictional future that could be our present. The production, adapted for the planetarium, was produced by students from the Bauhaus University with artists teams from around the world.
The audience accompanies glass architect Edgar Krug and his organ-playing wife Clara on a luxurious airship around the world. What is commonly considered a happy ending—the wedding—takes place in the first chapter of The Gray Cloth.
The newlyweds rush from construction site to construction site. Edgar Krug wants to beautify the world with colorful glass architecture. Everywhere, people are designing and working, rarely is anything finished, and much of it doesn't work. In between, there is celebrating and dancing. The story delves deep into the realm of the imaginary.
The tour provides plenty of fuel for aesthetic controversies and personal confusion. The assertion that women's clothing should be limited to gray fabric with a maximum of 10% white in order to form a favorable contrast to Edgar Krug's colorful glass architecture is both iconic and ironic.
(The German version DAS GRAUE TUCH will be performed May 18)
https://das-graue-tuch.de/
Praise the dome!
There will be video recordings of the events.
For more insider news follow us on Instragram: fulldome_festival
For all FullDome Festival fans* there is a €29.00 or €20.00 reduced price
COMBI-Ticket. With this ticket you can enjoy the entire day programme on 15.05.25 and the
immersive theater „the gray cloth“ in the evening. Celebrate with the international fulldome scene in
virtual space.
Easy fade out in Restaurant Bauersfeld
10:00-18:30 Fulldome 360° Filmfestival (Tagesticket II)
20:00-22:00 Allison Moore – Cloud Bodies (360° Live Performance)
The Combi-Ticket is particularly good value for FullDome Festival fans. For €29.00
or €25.00 reduced, it includes the entire day programme including the Live Performance „Cloud Bodies“ by Alison Moore.
Fulldome 360° Filmfestival (Tagesticket II)
For the 19th time, we are opening the doors of the oldest planetarium in the world for
the international FullDome Festival 2025. The FullDome Festival shows the best 360°
films produced in the past year. The films are created by professional
producers, young talents and innovative artists and some of them celebrate their
world premiere.
The best productions will be nominated for the JANUS Awards, the „Oscar“ of the fulldome
scene, on 17 May 2025. In addition to the fulldome films, the programme also
includes the Frameless Forum presentations. Innovations from the fields of fulldome,
media art, electronic art, virtual reality and 3D sound will be presented for discussion.
The day ticket includes the entire festival programme with all performances, film
screenings and technology talks for one day. The evening event is excluded from the
day ticket.
The Combi-Ticket is particularly good value for FullDome Festival fans. For €29.00
or €25.00 reduced, it includes the entire day programme including the Live Performance „Cloud Bodies“ by Alison Moore.
For more insider news follow us on Instragram: fulldome_festival
The detailed film, performance and lecture programme will be published soon on
www.fulldome-festival.de.
There will be video recordings of the events. Some of the films contain stroboscopic effects and fast image sequences.
Playing with scale and perspective, CLOUD BODIES is an immersive performance that explores the body as
landscape and investigates its relationship with virtual spaces. As bodies and landscapes waltz, the
topography of bodies morphs with the topography of the natural world. Allison Moore’s CLOUD BODIES is a
generative immersive experience in the Satosphere combining dance and technology. Using live volumetric
capture, dancer Lucy Fandel’s choreography is tracked by sensors during the performance. The geometric
metadata collected is processed and reconstructed in the virtual environment projected on the dome where
Fandel’s body and movements merge with digital landscapes. The elements are imaged in point clouds, a
system of data representation organized in three-dimensional spaces.
www.allisonmoore.net
Cloud Bodies is supported and funded by the Québec Arts Council and the Québec government.
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 / Luka Frӕy(a) Friedland (---/luka/they)
"Games are beautiful. They do not need to be justified." - Eric Zimmerman, Manifesto for a Ludic Century // This interdisciplinary presentation takes the medium of digital games seriously and looks at inherent theatrical aspects that are still overlooked in the current discourse that all to often employs VR headsets or AR applications in order to reconnect the virtual-digital with the physical body, thus skipping genuine virtual-digital theatre software. This theoretical and artistic research is inspired by contemporary digital games as well as historical theatrical machines and automata.
https://lukaendgames.itch.io/mfa-thesis
Nicole Schmölzer – Space Rhythms
“Space Rhythms” is an art form that uses space and time to create a unique aesthetic experience. The projection dome shines in bright colors. An interplay of colors springs from all directions, triggered by a magical hand that whisks you away into the secrets of colors, shapes, and the inner power of matter. Swiss born Nicole Schmoelzer completed her art education in Paris and New York City, studied art history and Romance languages at the Universities of Basel and Geneva, postgraduate studies at the Berlin University of the Arts, cultural management at the University of Basel. Painting, drawing, video, art and construction, glass and book objects. Interdisciplinary project work, curatorial, organizational, and teaching activities. Stays abroad, artist residencies, and exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad.
www.nicole-schmoelzer.ch
Danielle LeBlanc – Strategic Visions for the Planetarium.
Danielle is the Director of Immersive Theaters and the Center for Space Sciences 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 25 years of experience developing and presenting interactive educational and inspiring experiences for a broad spectrum of Museum audiences; leads development of the Planetarium’s fulldome programs through its in-house production teams; and collaborates with internal and external creative teams to bring arts, music, and innovative offerings to the Museum's two large-format immersive domes.
Does Stargazing Alum Dani LeBlanc Have the Coolest Job in Boston? | Bostonia | Boston University
Dr. Susanne Paech – Contact attempt. art meets science. With the 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 / Georg Boch – The Case for Disclosure.
Jim is founder and president of Ubiquity University. He had a lifetime of social and political activism beginning in the 1960s with the anti-war, anti-nuclear, citizen diplomacy and environmental movements. He spent his professional life in executive leadership, including as 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.
This advocacy is shared by Georg Boch, digital creator and production manager of Ubiquity University. Based in Berlin, Georg is passionate about unleashing the power of storytelling at the intersection of sustainability, AR/VR technology with an openness towards ET- and consciousness phenomena. www.georgboch.com/projects.
Unusual Perspectives
The Pale Blue Dot
Space Explorers: The ISS Experience
Cosmonautica
Seek
Space(s)
Entropy - Track1: "Blue Deep"
UP
Eternal Habitat
Gustav Holst - Planets
Animal Ark
Close Encounters - A lager than life virtual Safari
Dr. Nyan Meow-it-All: Wonderous Aurora
Starry Animals: Mountain, sea and river constellations in Colobian sky
Playing with scale and perspective, CLOUD BODIES is an immersive performance that explores the body as
landscape and investigates its relationship with virtual spaces. As bodies and landscapes waltz, the
topography of bodies morphs with the topography of the natural world. Allison Moore’s CLOUD BODIES is a
generative immersive experience in the Satosphere combining dance and technology. Using live volumetric
capture, dancer Lucy Fandel’s choreography is tracked by sensors during the performance. The geometric
metadata collected is processed and reconstructed in the virtual environment projected on the dome where
Fandel’s body and movements merge with digital landscapes. The elements are imaged in point clouds, a
system of data representation organized in three-dimensional spaces.
www.allisonmoore.net
Cloud Bodies is supported and funded by the Québec Arts Council and the Québec government.
ET Moments. Fairlix, visual direction – A multimedia exploration of how to get in touch with our cosmic neighbours, or how they get in touch with us. Live with Linda Trillhaase (Space Violin), and Michi Happak (Performance Lights)
10:00-20:30 Fulldome 360° Filmfestival & Award Gala (Tagesticket III)
23:00-06:00 Fulldome Festival Clubnight: KARAKUM *Live*, Eva, Lukas Geister, …
The COMBI Ticket is particularly favourable for FullDome Festival fans. For
€29.00 or €25.00 reduced, it includes the entire daytime programme including the
Clubnight in the evening.
For the 19th time, we are opening the doors of the oldest planetarium in the world for
the international FullDome Festival 2025. The FullDome Festival shows the best 360° films produced in the past year. The films are created by professional
producers, young talents and innovative artists and some of them celebrate their
world premiere.
The best productions will be announced in the evening for the JANUS Awards, the „Oscar“ of
the fulldome scene.
19:30 starts the Award Gala
Will be streamed live and free for those who cannot be in Jena – wait for link.
In addition to the fulldome films, the programme also includes
the Frameless Forum presentations. Innovations from the fields of fulldome, media
art, electronic art, virtual reality and 3D sound will be presented for discussion.
The day ticket includes the entire festival programme with all films
screenings and technology talks of the day and the nomination in the evening.
The Club Night is excluded from the day ticket.
The COMBI Ticket is particularly favourable for FullDome Festival fans. For
€29.00 or €25.00 reduced, it includes the entire daytime programme including the
Clubnight in the evening.
For more insider news follow us on Instragram: fulldome_festival
The detailed film, performance and lecture programme will be published soon on
www.fulldome-festival.de.
There will be video recordings of the events. Films contain strobe effects and fast image sequences.
Claire Dorweiler – Fulldome Visuals for 3D Audio Plays
The focus in 3D audio plays in on the auditive and images form in front of our inner eye. If you listen to spatial sound in the dome, the idea is obvious to combine it with visualizations. But it is not mandatory, that these depict exactly, what you already hear. This talk is about strategies how 3D audio and Fulldome projections can intertwine to bring another level to the immersive experience.
Claire Dorweiler is freelance director and motion designer for Fulldome visuals to 3D audio plays for Sony/Europa/H03RRAUM-Media since 2016. Since 2017 she teaches fulldome classes at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt where the emphasis is on combining 360° projections with spatial sound to design environmental media (SEM-lab). Since 2014 she creates interactions between fulldome and live performance for the Fulldome Festival Foundation/Bauhaus University Weimar. www.claire-dorweiler.de
Sergey Prokofyev – Fulldome as a gateway to speculating on the future of architecture. This presentation focuses on the evolving relationship between Fulldome cinema and architecture, showing how immersive cinematic environments generate a sense of temporal space within architectural discourse, while architectural principles, in turn, shape the scale, structure, and spatial depth of cinematic storytelling. Sergey Prokofyev
Hadiseh Nabavinezhad – News from a Campus Planetarium in Iran
Saeed Bayat is a Planetarium Moderator and Technician at Engarium Planetarium, University Campus, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Khorasan Razavi, Iran.
https://fum360.com
Parallel Universe
Reply - Felix Niemeyer
This is not a Ceremony
Smoke and Mirrors
Temporal
Frameless Panel – Immersive Art, Venues and Business Models
How does immersive art and technology bring excitement to audiences in old and new venues? What is the measure of success? United by the spirit of cooperation, our panelists share perspectives and experiences.
Moderator: Alexandra Wolf
Alexandra Wolf 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://awolfproject.de/
Panelists:
Nicole Koufou Attachée aux relations gouvernementales et aux affaires culturelles www.quebec.ca/berlin
https://youtu.be/_C2ZacrMBL4 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 the public.
Allison Moore is a new media artist working in immersive cinema and based in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal and holds an MFA in film from Concordia University. Her work has been programmed at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, le Grand théâtre du Québec, Society of Art and Technology (Montreal), Ars Electronica, Tokyo Arts and Space, MUTEK and ISEA. Her recent projects involve thematic inspirations of storytelling narratives in digital arts, video-mapping landscapes and architecture, Fulldome, site-specific public art and performance. Moore works as a freelance editor, compositor and animator and is currently part-time faculty at the school of cinema at Concordia University. www.allisonmoore.netwww.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 – Immersive obsessive – Starting out as a music and culture journalist, Kate began producing immersive film events with Live Cinema UK in 2014, and in 2016 was introduced to fulldome. Through Live Cinema she has brought artists from a range of disciplines into the dome to develop new work and has advocated for the support of fulldome, producing a report about its potential in the UK. Kate is now the administrator of the international community Fulldome Creative Network. Kate is also a writer and consultant for immersive experiences, as part of the Immersive Obsessive collective.
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.
Impossible Space
a full place that is now empty
STRATUM
The Stellars - Mission Green
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 Amos, Quebec 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/
JANUS-Award Gala
– Announcing the winners of the 2025 JANUS-Awards
– Announcing the winners of the Ewald-Weigel-Kunstpreis concepts Ein multimediales Denkmal für Erhard Weigel
Clubnight
Together with international artists, the FullDome Festival transforms the planetarium into a club in
a class of its own. We are celebrating 100 years of the planetarium, 19 years of the FullDome Festival and 13.85 billion years of
the universe. Today, however, it’s not the stars that will capture your attention, but a
composition of sound, visuals and light. Surrounded by galactic sounds, gravity loses
its power. Be part of our psychonautics crew.
Mainfloor: Spaceship
Visuals:
Fairlix
Meisam
Juladi
Thes open the stargate to astral travel.
Second Floor: Garden
23-06 TKKG Allstars
Celebrate with us in the most extraordinary location in town.
Praise the Dome!
No hate just LOVE
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We are a safe place and do not tolerate any form of
discrimination. There will be an Awarness Team, you will recognise them by their
yellow armbands. You can contact us at any time, we are here for you.
P18
For all FullDome Festival lovers* there is a reduced price of 29,00€ or 20,00€, a COMBI ticket. With this ticket you can enjoy the entire day program on 17.05.25 and the Clubnight.
DAS GRAUE TUCH
Immersives Musik-Theater. In deutscher Sprache
Der unscheinbare Titel täuscht. „Das Graue Tuch“ ist ein farbintensives 360° Theater mit Live-Orchester. Es basiert auf Paul Scheerbarts 1914 veröffentlichtem Roman „Das Graue Tuch und zehn Prozent Weiß“ und spielt in einer fiktiven Zukunft, die unsere Gegenwart sein könnte. Die für das Planetarium adaptierte Inszenierung wurde von Studierenden der Bauhaus-Uni mit internationalen Künstlerteams produziert.
Das Publikum der begleitet den Glasarchitekten Edgar Krug und seine Orgel spielende Frau Clara in einem luxuriösen Luftschiff rund um die Welt. Was gemeinhin als Happy End gilt – die Hochzeit – findet beim Grauen Tuch bereits im ersten Kapitel statt.
Die Jungvermählten eilen von Baustelle zu Baustelle. Edgar Krug will die Welt durch bunte Glasarchitektur verschönern. Überall wird konzipiert und gearbeitet, selten ist etwas fertig, vieles funktioniert nicht. Zwischendurch wird gefeiert und getanzt. Die Geschichte stößt tief ins Reich des Imaginären vor.
Die Tour über Chicago, Borneo, Sardinien, Lüneburger Heide und Mont Blanc bietet reichlich Zündstoff für ästhetische Kontroversen und zwischenmenschliche Verwirrungen. Dass die Oberbekleidung der Frauen sich auf graues Tuch mit maximal 10% Weiß beschränken soll, um einen vorteilhaften Kontrast zu Edgar Krugs bunter Glasarchitektur zu bilden, wird programmatisch behauptet, zugleich aber ironisiert.
(Die englische Version THE GRAY CLOTH wird am 15.05. aufgeführt)
https://das-graue-tuch.de/
