Discourse on immersive future technologies
In December 2017, the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) will host the festival inSonic2017: Immersive Future will take place. The ZKM, the Paris-based IRCAM and the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) want to stimulate discourse on future technologies.
After decades of niche existence, surround sound has become en vogue. Inspired by the visionary power of the musical avant-garde, systems for spatial sound production and reproduction have been developed and established over the past decades, and institutions such as the IRCAM in Paris and the ZKM now offer research and presentation platforms for them.
In the visual field, 3D cinema and fulldome film experienced a renaissance from the mid-noughties at the latest, while event venues, movie palaces, theaters and discotheques began to invest in immersive spatial sound systems shortly afterwards. Today, immersive applications in the fields of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) even make use of the portability and compactness of smartphones.
As part of the festival, current applications will be shown and current artistic approaches and contemporary methods will be discussed against the backdrop of a philosophical-aesthetic discourse. Until July 31, 2017, the ZKM is calling for submissions of scientific and non-scientific works and contributions in the categories lectures and posters, compositions and performances, installations as well as workshops and seminars/demonstrations.
More info: zkm.de/event/2017/12/insonic-2017
