https://darv.org DARV Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:15:57 +0000 https://darv.org en https://darv.org/index Tue, 28 Jul 2020 20:00:07 +0000 DARV https://darv.org/index DARV is an Art &amp; Tech collective founded by Mihaela Kavdanska (media artist), Violeta Ivanova (conceptual artist) and Florian Weinrich (software developer) in 2020. DARV realizes a series of Art &amp; Tech projects connecting different art forms and disciplines, utilizing technology as a mediator and catalyst. DARV AR is an open source augmented reality application designed and developed by Florian Weinrich &amp; the DARV team for artists and art educators. It utilizes geolocation or QR code-based augmented reality technology in various artistic contexts, especially art in public spaces. &gt;&gt; Sign up to our newsletter DARV&nbsp;is the name of a projects series initiated and produced by the collective - an international team of artists, interaction designers and software developers based in Linz and Berlin. Realised in the context of close collaboration between art and technology, this endeavour connects media art, site-specific installations, contemporary dance and performance, using the means of mixed reality and interactive video projections. Artistic concepts are transformed into Mixed Reality exhibitions, performative interventions in public spaces or intermedia dance performances, offering an experience of intermedia oneness to participating artists and audience alike. DARV project series includes the following projects produced or currently in production until the end of 2023: DARV_Abandoned Land 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 (2019-2020) intermedia dance performances and stage based AR experiences, presented at the Oil Tank Culture Park, Seoul, Ars Electronica Festival &amp; Center in Linz; DARV_Wandering Islands (2020) a Mixed Reality exhibition, performative interventions and intermedia dance performance at Paradise Art Lab, Seoul (premiered in October 2020); DARV_Steps Untold (2021 - ongoing) - Mixed Reality experiences and performative interventions on and around public stairways in the urban environment of Linz, Austria and Sofia, Bulgaria.&nbsp; DARV core team: Violeta Ivanova (Conceptual Art),&nbsp;Mihaela Kavdanska (Media and Interactive Art), and Florian Weinrich (Interaction Design and Software Development). The DARV project series have been co-funded or supported by: City of Linz Cultural Fundings: Linz Jahresprogramm, Linz EXPOrt, Linz ImPULS; OÖ Kultur; Paradise Art Foundation, Arts Council Korea; Ars Electronica Center, LM.Media, Pusch.TV, KOTKI visuals, FURNA art &amp; culture Steps Untold 2.0: Stories of Reverse Migration DARV Collective at DA Fest'23, Sofia:&nbsp;Screening, Workshop, AR interventions in public spaces DARV AR App for kimæra&nbsp;&nbsp;MNMNTS Augmented Reality Art in public space in Linz, Arad, Timisoara, Bucharest DARV Art &amp; Tech Workshop in Arad Augmented Reality Art in public space DARV Art&amp;Tech workshop: Climate Action Days Climate Action Days @ Innovations-Hauptplatz, Linz 10.09.2022 DARV Theme MeetingsInnovations-Hauptplatz, Linz 24.02.2022 21.04.2022 DARV Art&amp;Tech Workshop Linz Interface Cultures Department, Kunstuniversität Linz DARV_Steps Untold 1.0Treasures (Not) Here (Not) There Maindeck, Ars Electronica Center, Linz 05.06.2021, 17:00-19:00h Guest project at FMR 21 - Art in digital contexts and public space LINZ imPULS 2020, Linz Jahresprogramm 2021, OÖ Kultur. DARV_Wandering IslandsParadise Art Festival, Seoul 30.10. - 1.11.2020 Paradise Art Foundation, Linz EXPOrt 2020,&nbsp;Linz Kultur 2020 DARV_Abandoned Land 3.0 Baekam Art Hall, Seoul, October 2020 Arts Council Korea,&nbsp;Linz Jahresprogramm 2020,&nbsp;Linz EXPOrt 2020. DARV_Abandoned Land 2.0 Ars Electronica Festival, Linz11.09.2020, 14:00-14:30 and 15:00-15:30Deep Space 8K, Ars Electronica Center Arts Council Korea, Linz Jahresprogramm 2020 DARV_Abandoned Land 1.0 한국문화예술위원회 &lt;창작실험 활동과정 공유Arts Council Korea &lt;Creation experimentation_Process and share&gt; 21.02.2020 | 19:00h22.02.2020 | 14:00h︎Oil Tank Culture Park Seoul Team Contact https://darv.org/DARV_Steps-Untold Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:02:09 +0000 DARV https://darv.org/DARV_Steps-Untold DARV_Steps Untold 1.0 Treasures (Not) Here (Not) There Mixed Reality performative interventions in public space and documentary film shooting Gallery 05.06.2021 | 17:00 - 19:00h Maindeck, Ars Electronica Center, Linz Guest project in FMR 21- Art in digital contexts and public space <img width="2598" height="1299" width_o="2598" height_o="1299" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e0b8ff0b5ae1777cc0bba8a6c1a1e63c4f6d11560904a5973c8d4ed8cfc2e0e/StU_flyer_FRONT_FINAL.png" data-mid="108906537" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e0b8ff0b5ae1777cc0bba8a6c1a1e63c4f6d11560904a5973c8d4ed8cfc2e0e/StU_flyer_FRONT_FINAL.png" /> <img width="2598" height="1299" width_o="2598" height_o="1299" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2458ca0b702e15d1cacab0a00746fc359e490ac73f4a2ea08a4712bc7fa75ff1/StU_flyer_BACK_FINAL-1.jpg" data-mid="108913378" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2458ca0b702e15d1cacab0a00746fc359e490ac73f4a2ea08a4712bc7fa75ff1/StU_flyer_BACK_FINAL-1.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="880" width_o="1920" height_o="880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcc9df69feebbbfa2ffd53cb6954680b620247b83faa4380cd7197abe5c958ee/kolaj_02.jpg" data-mid="108908799" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcc9df69feebbbfa2ffd53cb6954680b620247b83faa4380cd7197abe5c958ee/kolaj_02.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="818" width_o="1920" height_o="818" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac36b4f4874c0f9c391b1624584db5a441e736f00a52546d264544f448a707a4/kolaj_01.jpg" data-mid="108908798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac36b4f4874c0f9c391b1624584db5a441e736f00a52546d264544f448a707a4/kolaj_01.jpg" /> DARV_Steps Untold is a series of Mixed Reality performative interventions on steps and stairways in the public space of Linz. The project addresses the social pressure for optimisation and constant (self-) improvement, the continuous (re-) positioning and integration in new contexts.&nbsp; The DARV core team creates a conceptual and media framework in which choreographers and sound artists work together with non-professional performers from different cultural and social backgrounds. They present two site-specific performative interventions accompanied by soundscapes, involving real and digital performers. All the elements interact through an Augmented Reality application.&nbsp; In the two projects, Treasures and (Not) Here (Not) There, different levels of reality are intertwined with the use of AR technology, exposing also personal, intimate realities of the participants. These performances reveal their way of living and working, their perspectives on language and culture, the awareness of their own diversity. DARV_Steps Untold 1.0 | Participating artists Treasures Dolma Jover, ES | choreographer&nbsp; Edgar Friedl, AT | sound artist Luis Gonzaga Hoyos, CO | performer Arno Plass, AT | performer A manifesto, a series of bodily transformations and Queer Tango are just a few of the treasures which one can find on a well-known public stairway in Linz, where this site-specific performance takes place. The live performing characters get intertwined with their digital doubles in the space of augmented reality, telling deeply personal stories to the viewer. Different forms of communication are explored in Treasures by blurring or even ignoring social and gender roles. The aim is to encourage people to share their treasures, as well as to take a step further towards a less hierarchical and harmful society, to appreciate the Otherness and the treasures it holds. (Not) Here (Not) There Constantin Georgescu, RO | choreographer Sabina Hyoju Ahn, KR | sound artist Maia Benashvili, GE | performer Ayan Rezaei, IR | performerThis project revolves around the concept of visibility and invisibility, in a bid to create a mixed&nbsp; environment which uses digital elements and live presence to reflect on social and existential&nbsp; topics. While on its surface it proposes a playful digital alteration of perception which filters the&nbsp; space and the inter-corporeal organisation of the two performers, this project attempts to draw&nbsp; the attention to social circumstances which are “blind” to integration efforts of marginalised&nbsp; categories, being that due to migrant backgrounds or gender inequality. It is therefore an invitation&nbsp; to (re)consider the structures of perception according to which we construct socially relevant&nbsp; scales and contexts. Stairs, as an architectural solution to access and connectivity, but also in their metaphoric&nbsp; understanding as the means to rate or compare, are being used here as a place of engaging with&nbsp; challenges, goals, and transformations. The performing space of the Ars Electronica Stairs, becomes a choreographic platform where&nbsp; spatial dynamics between the performers and their degrees of visibility are being explored with&nbsp; the help of AR (augmented reality). DARV core team Mihaela Kavdanska | Media and Interactive Art Violeta Ivanova | Conceptual ArtFlorian Weinrich | Interaction Design and AR Development LM.Media &amp; Pusch.TV | filming and video post production Funding institutions: Linz ImPULS 2020, Linz Kultur Jahresprogramm 2021, OÖ Kultur.Project partners: LM.Media, Pusch.TV, KOTKI visuals. Team Contact https://darv.org/DARV_Wandering-Islands Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:35:28 +0000 DARV https://darv.org/DARV_Wandering-Islands DARV_Wandering IslandsParadise Lab, SeoulLinz EXPOrt 2020 Gallery Team The DARV project edition entitled Wandering Islands is conceived as a media art exhibition. All the elements involved - performative interventions, site-specific installations, intermedia dance performances and large scale interactive video projections, are connected with the use of an Augmented Reality (AR) application to create a Mixed reality experience. The artistic concept revolves around the interaction between separated fragments of a larger whole and their transformational journey between different realms. As the island is a piece of land separated from the mainland, different bodies or body parts are represented as disconnected islands. In their desire to connect with each other, they experience the creation of a whole new body (creature?), discover new ways of interrelating and get transformed.&nbsp; Mind and body (dis-)connections, inner and outer spaces, real and augmented bodies, constructed and virtual identities, all navigate various levels of subjective reality, playing with the concept of cognition and the different proportions of the elements involved. The viewers through their physical presence, become a constructive element of the media art exhibition. Using the AR app they have the opportunity to observe several site-specific studies in which digital performers and real ones interact with real and virtual objects.&nbsp; Team Contact https://darv.org/DARV_Abandonned-Land-3-0 Wed, 19 May 2021 11:29:46 +0000 DARV https://darv.org/DARV_Abandonned-Land-3-0 DARV_Abandoned Land 3.0Intermedia dance performance Baekam Art Hall, Seoul October 2020 <img width="1935" height="1115" width_o="1935" height_o="1115" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8a421800a28e6e75f6024e7b5e8e89d7a025e113b8c2f96c5eccd32a6296f28/darv_abl3_2.jpg" data-mid="108914233" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8a421800a28e6e75f6024e7b5e8e89d7a025e113b8c2f96c5eccd32a6296f28/darv_abl3_2.jpg" /> <img width="1555" height="1115" width_o="1555" height_o="1115" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/448d0b9d714ade3bd8a62c7031db0592526e1880b28e1bc10dc7c2fadda7f682/darv_abl3_3.jpg" data-mid="108914232" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/448d0b9d714ade3bd8a62c7031db0592526e1880b28e1bc10dc7c2fadda7f682/darv_abl3_3.jpg" /> TeamContact https://darv.org/DARV_Abandoned-Land-2-0 Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:02:33 +0000 DARV https://darv.org/DARV_Abandoned-Land-2-0 DARV_Abandoned Land 2.0Intermedia dance performance Ars Electronica Festival 202011.09.2020 | 14:00-14:30h and 15:00-15:30h Deep Space 8K, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria &gt;&gt; Gallery DARV_ Abandoned Land is an intermedia dance performance, which sprouts connections between analog and digital. The performers interact with large-scale objects and video projections, resembling the endless migration from one world to another in search for the better. The DARV team and eight dancers perform in various locations in Austria, South Korea and Bulgaria, guiding the audience through dystopian realities and abandoned sites. Drained-off utopias, failed social mechanisms and ideologies are embodied, explored and ultimately abandoned. Conditioned by enforced changes along the work process, the project has naturally become a response to the present world situation, its limitations and possibilities. DARV is a series of projects conceived by an international team of artists and interaction designers based in Austria. Contemporary Dance, Site-specific Installation and Video Art are connected via technology into Mixed Reality experiences, interlacing real and virtual realms. Credits: DARV team: Lee Jung In (KR/AT), Mihaela Kavdanska/ KOTKI visuals (BG/RO/AT), Violeta Ivanova (BG/AT), Florian Weinrich (AT) Concept and Creative Direction: DARV team Choreography, Dance Production: Lee Jung In Creation Art Direction and Video Projections: Mihaela Kavdanska Art Direction and Installation Art: Violeta Ivanova Interaction Design and Software development: Florian Weinrich Choreography Assistant, Solo Dancer: Lee Seung Ju Dancers: Lee Seung Ju, An Se Young, Hong Ye Eun, Lee Dae Heung, Yoh Morishita Music: Mirian Kolev, Manja Ristic Photo credits: Violeta Ivanova Funding institutions: Arts Council Korea, Linz Kultur Project partners: Lee Jung In Creation, Redsapata Tanz Fabrik, KOTKI visuals, LM Media, Pusch TV. <img width="5234" height="3489" width_o="5234" height_o="3489" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1e33bfe88f790a57ef64ba78f32787980782d43fa85ce65bafe8b8022ab7b73/Abandoned_LandVioleta_Ivanova_04.jpg" data-mid="79531386" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1e33bfe88f790a57ef64ba78f32787980782d43fa85ce65bafe8b8022ab7b73/Abandoned_LandVioleta_Ivanova_04.jpg" /> <img width="3237" height="2473" width_o="3237" height_o="2473" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffb2240c014444650c793569525c7060b75d0ce3a526336b351006aadad386aa/IMG_0037_WEB.jpg" data-mid="79531417" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffb2240c014444650c793569525c7060b75d0ce3a526336b351006aadad386aa/IMG_0037_WEB.jpg" /> <img width="5300" height="3533" width_o="5300" height_o="3533" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7ddee87ca6e2b990ca0b2c871dc4d6ca663ff89adf0820eef9530e4ac86a603/Abandoned_LandVioleta_Ivanova_06.jpg" data-mid="79531389" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7ddee87ca6e2b990ca0b2c871dc4d6ca663ff89adf0820eef9530e4ac86a603/Abandoned_LandVioleta_Ivanova_06.jpg" /> <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c8bb76eedaf706fe1c4ed4fbf86fe5a66c9a94eecd2f6f893eddcb2e4802541/Abandoned_LandVioleta_Ivanova_Abandoned_LandVioleta_Ivanova.JPG" data-mid="79531390" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c8bb76eedaf706fe1c4ed4fbf86fe5a66c9a94eecd2f6f893eddcb2e4802541/Abandoned_LandVioleta_Ivanova_Abandoned_LandVioleta_Ivanova.JPG" /> <img width="5403" height="3602" width_o="5403" height_o="3602" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9a2e3976a379ffd5195299e9881a9ef4e3d0c0d9ec5735a18b6dd76db24f407/Abandoned_LandVioleta_Ivanova_02.JPG" data-mid="79531380" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9a2e3976a379ffd5195299e9881a9ef4e3d0c0d9ec5735a18b6dd76db24f407/Abandoned_LandVioleta_Ivanova_02.JPG" /> Team Contact Gallery https://darv.org/DARV_Abandoned-Land-1-0 Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:06:49 +0000 DARV https://darv.org/DARV_Abandoned-Land-1-0 DARV_Abandoned Land | #ARmotivation 한국문화예술위원회 &lt;창작실험 활동과정 공유 Arts Council Korea &lt;Creation experimentation_Process and share&gt; &gt;&gt;Gallery 21.02. | 19:00h 22.02. | 14:00h ︎Oil Tank Culture Park Seoul&nbsp; DARV&nbsp;is a project initiated and co-created by a team of artists, interaction designers and software developers from Korea, Austria and Bulgaria: Lili Jung In Lee (Contemporary Dance and Performance), Mihaela Kavdanska (Media and Interactive Art), Jan Kyung Ae (Painting) and Florian Weinrich (Interaction Design and Software Development). Realised in the context of close collaboration between art and technology, this endeavour connects contemporary dance, media art and painting using the means of Augmented Reality and real-time generated video projections. Artistic concepts are transformed into intermedia dance performance and AR exhibition, offering an experience of intermedia oneness to participating artists and audience alike. DARV_ Abandoned Land 프로젝트는 오스트리아 린츠에서 활동하고 있는 오스트리아, 한국, 불가리아의 예술가들과(무용- 이정인, 미디어&amp;비주얼 아트- 미하엘라 카브단스카, 인터렉션 디자인 &amp; 소프트웨어 개발자 - 플로리안 바인리히, 설치 작가- 비올레타 이바노바) 초청 한국 회화 작가 장경애와 함께 구성된 국제적인 예술 협업 프로젝트 팀이다. 예술과 기술, 융복합 예술을 바탕으로 현대무용, 회화, 비주얼 아트, 증강현실, 미술 설치 등과 함께 다채로운 협업 작업을 진행하며, 융복합 전시 및 무용공연의 실험적 구성을 시도하여 참여 예술가와 관객들에게 실제적 경험을 제공하고자 한다 DARV 01_ Abandoned Land An intermedia dance performance &amp; AR exhibition experience Clairvoyance into the Future has been fascinating and even crucial throughout the history of humankind. What we need nowadays is to become “clairvoyants” into the Present: to expand our abilities beyond reach, to sharpen our attention, to purify our perception and grasp the multidimensional reality we live in. We go back to the land which others abandoned drowned in ashes, as visionaries of the Present: the only time and dimension in which we still have the chances to explore, create and make a difference. 미래를 예측하고 파악하는 것은 이미 오래전부터 우리에게 결정적인 역할을 하였다. 앞날을 바라보고 과거를 돌아볼 수 있는 ‘현재’라는 중요한 순간에서, 우리는 다가오는 미래를 바라보고 통찰하기 위해 예리한 직관으로 손이 닿지 않는 범위까지 능력을 확장하고, 인식을 정화하며, 우리가 살고 있는 다차원적 현실을 파악해야 한다. 우리는 앞으로 나아가는 탐구자로서, 오래 전 잿더미로 삼켜졌던 과거의 버려진 땅- 한 때는 자유롭고 무한한 가능성이 있었던- 그곳으로 돌아가 유일한 시간과 차원을 탐험하고, 새롭게 창조하며 현재와 미래의 변화를 만들 기회를 다시한번 시도한다. TeamContact https://darv.org/DARV-Workshops Sat, 08 Jan 2022 18:13:47 +0000 DARV https://darv.org/DARV-Workshops DARV Art&amp;Tech Workshop&nbsp; Interface Cultures Department, Kunstuniversität Linz shooting 9th of December 2021. Duration 3 hours. 14th of January 2022, Presentation of students' projects. Gallery The key intention of this workshop is the creation of artistic concepts and narratives for AR/ MR experiences and performative interventions in public spaces. At the same time, we would explore together the potential for social engagement and public participation in these kind of projects. A starting point for reflection would be DARV projects examples involving socially inspired concepts related to migrant and queer topics. We would discuss about possible public spaces in Linz for conceiving site-specific AR/ MR experiences and performative interventions. We suggest as conceptually interesting those public spaces serving for transition from one point to another (e.g. bridges, stairways, elevators, etc). The students will be given the opportunity to use the DARV Augmented Reality application in order to realise their projects. The workshop would focus on connecting the real and virtual world utilising Augmented Reality to merge different artistic expressions in an experience of intermedia oneness. Workshop schedule (on demand): 9th of December 2021, 10:15 - 13:15 h 14th of January 2022, 10:15 - 13:15 h More information about DARV &amp; Team DARV is a series of projects initiated by an international team of artists, interaction designers and software developers based in Linz, Austria. Realised in the context of close collaboration between art and technology, this endeavour connects media art, site-specific installations and contemporary dance, using the means of mixed reality and interactive video projections. Artistic concepts are transformed into Mixed Reality exhibitions, performative interventions in public spaces or intermedia dance performances, offering an experience of intermedia oneness to participating artists and audience alike. DARV core team: Mihaela Kavdanska (Media and Interactive Art), Violeta Ivanova (Conceptual Art) and Florian Weinrich (Interaction Design and Software Development). Mihaela Kavdanska works as an intermedia artist, creative director, curator, producer of exhibitions and festivals. She graduated B.A. and M.A. in Fine Arts at The National University of Arts in Bucharest in 2001 and M.A. Interface Cultures at Kunstuniversität Linz, 2019. Since 2001 Mihaela Kavdanska has worked on personal and collaborative projects, exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, festivals and public spaces in Europe, United States &amp; Asia. Her projects have been awarded and funded internationally. After extensively exploring the fields of Painting, Photography, Video Art, Music Visuals, Interactive media for Dance, Theatre and performative interventions, she's been recently concerned with the creative balance between Art and Technology. Mihaela Kavdanska focuses on the intermedia oneness between media and participants in performative contexts. kavdanska.eu, kotkivisuals.com&nbsp; Violeta Ivanova graduated with a Bachelor at the Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria and a Master Plastische Konzeptionen/Keramik at Kunstuniversität Linz. She is internationally active and participates in a majority of different collaborative projects. For her artistic activity Violeta Ivanova has been awarded and supported by institutions in Austria, Bulgaria and Japan. She works mainly in the field of conceptual art with a focus on site-specific installations and objects. Freelance artist, currently Assistant at the Sculpture Department of University Mozarteum Salzburg. Ivanovavioleta.com Linz born software engineer, Florian Weinrich, has been working on various artistic and non-artistic projects over the last few years. After finishing education in the field of media technology he worked at media agencies and startups. In 2019 he became self-employed and started working on local and international projects in cooperation with other artists and media agencies based in Europe. Currently, he works on generative art and real-time visual applications in Berlin and Linz. weinrich.dev https://darv.org/DARV-Theme-Meetings Sun, 31 Jul 2022 13:58:27 +0000 DARV https://darv.org/DARV-Theme-Meetings DARV_Theme Meetings Innovations-Hauptplatz Linz 24th of February 2022&nbsp;21st of April 2022 Gallery DARV Theme Meetings bring together professionals from Art, Culture, and Technology fields who share and discuss different aspects related to the presence and perception of Digital Art in public space. &nbsp; In partnership with Innovationshauptplatz Linz, the DARV team aims to create a new hybrid space for sharing, questioning and experimentation, to foster processes of creation and production of Digital Art for urban environments. The role of Digital Art in public context and its potential for evolving into a critical, social and environmental tool is explored from various perspectives during this meeting series. Artists, curators, media theorists, UX designers and software developers share thoughts and know-how on related topics such as Performative interventions in public space and public participation, AR in public space, The social aspect of performance and the connection to public spaces, On the physical presence of digital art. This event series is co-funded by Linz Kultur. DARV Theme Meeting 1.0 will focus on Augmented Reality as a tool for artistic expression, its potential for transformation of the urban space and interaction with the public.&nbsp; The DARV_Steps Untold project - performative interventions on stairways in the public space of Linz, will be briefly presented by Violeta Ivanova and Mihaela Kavdanska (artists, DARV core team). The project addresses the social pressure for optimisation and constant (self-) improvement, the continuous (re-) positioning and integration in new contexts. The DARV core team created a conceptual and media framework in which real and digital performers interact through an AR application, connecting different realities.&nbsp;&nbsp; DARV’s experience of using Augmented Reality for artistic purposes in public space will be introduced in the context of an open discussion with Jakob Dietrich (Memphis, qujOchÖ, LINZ FMR). Florian Weinrich, software developer (DARV core team) will introduce the DARV Augmented Reality Platform for rapid prototyping. Try outs of this open source browser based platform designed especially for artistic and educational purposes, will be possible.&nbsp;&nbsp; Participants:&nbsp; Violeta Ivanova (conceptual artist, DARV core team) Mihaela Kavdanska (media artist, DARV core team) Florian Weinrich (software developer, DARV core team) Jakob Dietrich (Memphis, qujOchÖ, LINZ FMR) DARV Theme Meeting 2.0 focuses on the current state of AR (Augmented Reality), open source AR, the presence of AR in platforms like Metaverse, and especially on the interaction with "analog" artistic practices. The topic that Florian Weinrich (software developer and interaction designer, DARV core team) will reflect on during his presentation is "How open source XR can be democratized and used for artistic projects?" "Most of the “valley companies” are working on vendor-locked XR. This development is great but has to be accessible by the broad public without having tracking, ads, or censorship implemented at its core. After presenting a framework (or nomenclature) for defining AR and VR, Florian Weinrich will talk about how DARV Online (AR App) fits in this metaverse and what future developments could look like." (F. Weinrich) A short Q&amp;A session will follow. During the second part of this Theme Meeting, the DARV team will offer guidance through a hands-on experience. The participants in this workshop would try out different technical possibilities of using AR in order to share artistic vantage points in the public space of Linz. We invite professionals and students from the Art &amp; Culture scene to bring objects relevant to their work, statements, ideas, or personal life. The objects would be 3D scanned, photographed or video recorded, and introduced in Augmented Reality via DARV Online (AR app) at a location of their choice. This content authoring process will happen purely on phones or tablets and results in AR will be available immediately. DARV Online is a collaborative augmented reality platform that combines software tools and concepts for AR experiences. Users can upload objects that are bound to a position in the real world (GPS, location-based AR) in a web interface. If users are in close proximity of those objects, they are placed in the space relative to them. Furthermore, objects can be bound to image-based markers (marker-based AR). These objects are visible in AR as soon as users see the selected reference image. Objects include media files (photo, video, live streams) or 3D scans of rooms or physical objects. All parameters regarding the position and appearance of the objects in the virtual space can also be controlled in&nbsp;the web interface of DARV Online. DARV Online provides a documented web api, thus all of these values and&nbsp;objects can be uploaded and modified automatically. DARV Online offers an Android and iOS AR app for visualizing this data.&nbsp;In this app, it is possible to switch between "collections" of objects - all of these objects are then placed in space depending on the AR method&nbsp;(location or marker-based). Objects can also be uploaded through the&nbsp;mobile app. Once uploaded, they are placed in the users location and&nbsp;become immediately visible to everyone else. Image-based markers are&nbsp;also supported in this step and can be created by users in the app. &nbsp; https://darv.org/DARV-Climate-Action Sun, 31 Jul 2022 14:07:58 +0000 DARV https://darv.org/DARV-Climate-Action DARV_Workshop: Climate Action DaysClimate Action Days @ Innovations-Hauptplatz, Linz10th of September 2022&nbsp; Du hast Interesse, deine Gedanken, Vorstellungen, Wünsche, Befürchtungen und Sorgen rund um das Thema Klimawandel in der Stadt, in der du lebst und wo du dich wohlfühlst, mit anderen zu teilen? Du möchtest dies in einer kreativen und innovativen Form tun? DANN bist du bei unserem Workshop genau richtig! Du wirst von Künstler*innen und einem Software Entwickler begleitet, die dir helfen, deine Kreativität zu wecken und sie in digitaler und analoger Form zu zeigen. Beim Workshop sollen Denkmal-Modelle aus natürlichen Materialien kreiert werden, inspiriert von der Linzer Pestsäule zeitgenössische„Monumente des Klimawandels", unter Verwendung von alltäglichen Materialien wie Lebensmittel, recyceltem Papier, natürlichen Farben, Ton, Stroh, etc. Die fertiggestellten Arbeiten werden durch Photogrammetrie und 3D Scan in Augmented-Reality implementiert und dem Publikum am Hauptplatz präsentiert. Registriere dich bis 31. August 2022 an furnaverein22@gmail.com. Begrenzte Teilnehmer*innenzahl! Teil 1:Gestartet wird mit einem kurzen Spaziergang rund um den Hauptplatz, um sich inspirieren zu lassen und Orte für die Umsetzung festzulegen, aber auch, um Kontakte zu den anderen Teilnehmer*innen der Klima Aktionstage zu knüpfen. Dann werden verschiedene natürliche Materialien untersucht und erforscht.Mittels diversen Techniken (Experimentieren, Recyclen, etc.) werden Objekte geschaffen, die fotografiert, auf Video aufgenommen oder in 3D gescannt werden können. Dieser Inhalt wird dann in der DARV-App implementiert und am Hauptplatz mittels Tablets/Smartphones zu sehen sein. Teil 2:Die Teilnehmer*innen werden sich gemeinsam mit den Workshop-Moderator*innen auf dem Hauptplatz verteilen, um ihre Projekte umzusetzen. Sie werden ermutigt, mit dem Publikum in Interaktion zu treten, zu performen und über die bearbeiteten Themen mit Passant*innen zu diskutieren, um Feedback zu ihren Arbeiten zu bekommen. https://darv.org/DARV-Art-Tech-Workshop-in-Arad Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:15:57 +0000 DARV https://darv.org/DARV-Art-Tech-Workshop-in-Arad DARV Art &amp; Tech Workshop in AradAugmented Reality Art in public space The DARV collective was invited by Doar Maine Association form Arad to coordonate&nbsp;a five-day educational experience where art installations and performances created through analog and digital means, were implemented in Augmented Reality and presented in an exhibition in public space at Biblioteca Județeană Alexandru D. Xenopol Arad. The workshop leaders collaborated with a group of 12 students from the High School for Fine Art "Sabin Drăgoi" and from the Faculty of Design, UAV Arad, with guidance and organization provided by their professors.&nbsp;The main focus was on climate change in Arad and the surrounding area, as well as pressing issues related to the impact of digital media and devices on the students' lives. The site-specific AR exhibition opened on May 26th in the courtyard of Biblioteca Județeană Alexandru D. Xenopol Arad. Workshop participants and projects: It’s Yours. | Palko Cristina, Clanda Sergiu-Raul Fever | Szauka Ioana, Vasiliu Alexandru The way of nature | Sarkozi Winona-Maya The worm of the new era | Grodei Marisa-Diana Tired of being tired | Dura Bianca In/visible strings | Stanciu Alexandra-Ștefania Song of the leaves | Olaru Ema Is somebody else here? | Farîma Ana Bee-ing aroud | Knapik Bogdana The work process began in February 2023 with four online meetings in February, April, and May. These meetings focused on concept creation, production guidelines, and implementation strategies. The students submitted proposals, which were reviewed by their professors and the workshop leaders, who then provided multiple feedback sessions.&nbsp;On May 22nd, everyone involved gathered in Arad for the onsite workshop. The workshop leaders guided the students through the production process of analog and digital content creation, 3D scanning of the objects created, filming of the performances, and the actual implementation in AR (Augmented Reality).&nbsp;&nbsp;The workshop ran from 10:00 to 18:00 every day.&nbsp;One of the days was dedicated to visiting the National Park Lunca Mureșului, where ecological problems were discussed, and locations for implementing the AR projects in the area were chosen. The workshop leaders and the professors involved were delighted to observe the interest from the audience and the students' engagement. Nita Mocanu, one of the professors and the lead organizer of the workshop through the "Doar Maine" assosiation (as part of the Post-Education Program), expressed their satisfaction: "We are very glad to have had this collaboration with the Faculty of Design, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, and the highly supportive team at Arad County Library. The students showed remarkable receptiveness, including those from Sabin Drăgoi Art College Arad. The participants made significant strides in contemporary art, with some even exploring New Media art. We hope to collaborate with them again in the future." The DARV Collective is currently working on additional&nbsp; development of the DARV AR application for presenting the projects in different public spaces in Arad and the area. This workshop and exhibition were part of the&nbsp;Post-Education project. Pedagogues of Crisis, developed by the Association Doar Mâine, Minitremu, the Association Foc și Pară, and Kinema Ikon, within the Cultural Program "Timișoara 2023 - European Capital of Culture,". It is funded by the Municipality of Timișoara through Centrul de Proiecte, co-financed by the Arad Museum Complex and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Bucharest.