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Nicola L. Hein and Claudia Schmitz: UnStumm—Global Virtual Stages

UnStumm

June 15, 2021

Nicola L. Hein and Claudia Schmitz
UnStumm—Global Virtual Stages
Telematic augmented reality performance series
June 19–August 7, 2021

Performance series : June 19–August 7, on the UnStumm-Agumented Voyage App

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UnStumm—Global Virtual Stages is organized and curated by Nicola L. Hein (sound artist, guitarist) and Claudia Schmitz (time based media artist). Developed in collaboration with Sven Hahne (programmer, media artist).

UnStumm is a contemporary cultural institution without a permanent space that focuses on real time video and sound art interaction. Its diverse location reflects both the internationality and the interdisciplinarity of its cultural objectives and the projectimmanent conception of barrier-free art mediation. It focuses on the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration of video and sound artists from Germany and abroad. The main artistic goal of UnStumm is an intermedia contemporary performance with sound and video art. The spaces of the performances are integrated into the performances, addressed in their potential as sound and projection bodies. The aim is to create an environment of cultural and creative exchange in the form of a real-time audiovisual performance, in which a common, complex, transmedial artistic language is invented and used to convey narratives, textures, collisions, combinations and attractions of visual and sound worlds. The group works on the basis of a narrative of their own choice, choosing an intercultural focus of the topic. UnStumm is not only about bringing together artistic and technical art practices, but also about creating experiences that touch the cultures, stories and horizons of thought involved. 

With UnStumm—Global Virtual Stages Claudia Schmitz and Nicola L. Hein invite artists from Mexico, Colombia, Japan, Germany and the USA to telematic real-time performances in augmented reality.

The international artists encounter each other in audiovisual interactions and project those onto augmented reality sculptures and virtual loudspeakers.

The audience participates in the telematic augmented reality performances by means of the UnStumm iOS / Android app via their own smartphone or tablet. The app can be downloaded from the UnStumm website and enables both the participation in three-dimensional live performances and the subsequent streaming of past performances.

Using the user’s own smartphone as 3D glasses, UnStumm—Global Virtual Stages brings the artists’ performances into the presence of the audience’s lifeworld.

Contact: UnStumm, Nicola L. Hein and Claudia Schmitz, unstumm [at] gmail.com

Performances in the series UnStumm—Global Virtual Stages:

Colombia / Germany: June 19, 8pm (UTC+2), duration 40 minutes
Ana Maria Romano: Electronics / Juan Orozco: Video performance / Claudia Schmitz: Live moving image onto virtual sculpture / Nicola L. Hein: Guitar, electronics