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
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's works reinterpret and rebuild the world as a metaphoric landscape in which sensitive beings are in synergy with their allegorical macrocosm. 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.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.