THE MOTION EXPERIENCE LAB

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6.9.-11.9.23

MXL is invited to join with a team and Prof. Juric will give an input on Sep 8th
@ Choreographic Coding Lab, Köln

 

︎︎︎MXL#09: How does the MXL sound? – Producing an Audio Identity w/ guest musician Stefanie Grawe

➝ howdoesthemxlsound.cargo.site

WS23︎︎︎

︎︎︎ Coming up soon! Stay tuned.







SS21︎︎︎ 

︎︎︎ MXL#8: Non Human Motion Design "Animals and Animatronics" w/ guest artist Thomas Hawranke




︎︎︎MXL#10: How does the MXL look and feel? – Dynamic AV Identity w/guest designer Benjamin Stephan / Lafkon

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2016-2023 @KISD

The Motion Experience Lab started early 2016 as a teaching series of ongoing explorative and innovative short term projects initiated by Prof. Nina Juric, head of image & Motion / KISD.
It took place each semester focusing on applied design research of extended motion within the context of performative interaction and interdisciplinary media creation.

Since 2020 and a successful aquisition of funding by the innovation & invest program of TH Köln,  it has established an own physical lab structure @KISD in the 4th floor and is embedding (and extending) the fotostudio aswell as the VRLab.
It is meant as a practice based design research, multipurpose prototyping and experimental production studio.

Besides our usual lab classes you can easily request a time slot, to work on your project or play around with our MoCap, Azures, VR equipment within the official MXLab opening hours. 
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Inviting renowned guests as sparing partners, designers and artists of her own teaching and research field, Prof. Nina Juric initiates a temporary exploratory living lab within a varying conceptional framework of cross-disciplines. Each time, the aim of these projects is to research hands-on in high-tech environments presented by guests or us on custom-made prototypes and designed artifacts. The higher aim is to extrude them like a studio or innovation lab into progressing conversation pieces and developments dealing with aspects of motion, spatial performance, interaction and experience design. These interdisciplinary frameworks arise from time integrated media environments like art, theater, dance, film, advertisement or show business. In that realm of Image and Motion, contextualized time and an advanced notion of space are the essential parameters to foster an embodied experience.

If you have questions about the lab, the concept and the research and teaching ideas behind, please get in touch with Prof. NJU.

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Blender 3D-Lets blow up a planet! /Cut Up Students works SS21 technical Seminar by Sasha Bahrami .

Creative Tech @ MXL Seminar Outcome SS 21 by Till Beyer

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Motion Experience Lab#01:
Germany’s next top motion

With guest Artist Keez Duvyes Pips:lab,NL /WS17

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MXL#04: VRenice Beach II:
Leave your body at the door

Making of Clips SS2019 / Instructed by MXL cooperation partners NEOANALOG | Michael Schmitz & Willem Rabe  / Initiated by Image and Motion Prof. Nina Juric

In this project we were creating radical Out-of-Body-Perception-Machines using VR technology.  / Duration: SoSe19 / 9.1. – 31.3.2019

RUMEIAMU from Marion Kunz,  Ping Feng & Deniz Can Ercan

R U ME? I AM U. Is a project that tried to deal with the self as a virtual representation and a tool of induction of an out of body experience. It is divided into two phases, the first being the MANIFESTATION and then the second, the DETACHMENT. A virtual mirror, reflected in the physical world, will serve as an anchor, the binding element between the two realities and help establish a virtual connection to the self. Yourself in the virtual world is a gender neutral, faceless body, a „Projektionsfläche”, a projection surface, for whatever the user wants to see in it. An abstractly concrete form. The user gets to know their-self within the environment, gets comfortable in the virtual body, blurring the lines between the virtual and the physical, sits down, gets haptically grounded with through impulses, establishing an even deeper connection between the two selfs.

The pulling away starts the second phase, the detachment.

We tried to visualize this process, this unnatural moment of leaving your own body with various visual and acoustic impulses. We thought of that moment as an overstimulation of the senses.

Then the user, now out of their body, can see not only their reflection in the mirror but also themselves. The unnatural nature of this state is again reflected in the distorted visual and acoustic environment. The haptic feedback stays for a little while. The user sees it done to themselves out of their own body while feeling it on their body.

After a while the user is being pushed back into their body, everything back to normal. It is supposed to feel relieving, normal and natural again. Like a deep breath after being in a place of discomfort.

Following the stated questions of the VRenice Beach project in 2018 by Prof.
Nina Juric, this project further investigates space, time and materiality in
motion in virtual spaces: We will explore new ways of real/virtual perception by creating radical and impartial out-of-body experiences based on VR technology. By shifting the self and its point of view we seek to better understand perception and how to design VR applications that help us transcend our fleshy bodies and achieve a new state of mind. No drugs required!
While doing so we combine digital and analog ways of perception. Proper experience design and user interface paradigms will be developed through this process. We will investigate space-time relationships, dynamic materials, shapes and spaces, scale and proportion, surrogates, virtual+physical narratives, physics etc. The general approach will be inspired by principles of the surrealist movement, aiming to better understand and describe the stated non objective reality. The resulting VR experiences will be featured in a showcase of transcendence. We will be working with HTC Vive headsets and Unity3D.

Documentation of Feng Ping:

︎︎︎ Band promotion Virtual Vitaliy

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Go to project site.
Or find the project documented on this I+M site here.

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Motion Experience Lab#05: Die Erfahrung des Bildlosen

Art meets Science meets Visuality - or Intuition? / Experience? / Knowledge? / Epiphany? / Cognition & Emotion?/ Virtual reality?

With VR Artist Tobias Wüstefeldin scientific cooperation with EMBL

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Motion Experience Lab#02:
Loops in Space

A project initiated by Prof. Nina Juric in colaboration with Michael Titze / Pfadfinderei, Berlin


Participants: Andrea Egidi & Alessandra Facchin (Odyssey) / Alan Chismechian & Leonie Spachtholz / Ashley Nicole Morgan & Antonio Canu / Matthias Grund, Rui Han & Sebastian Miller (Colour Loops) / Hei Wa Wong & Moritz Emil Tronsch (Pensive) / Stefanie Grawe & Nadja Gordina

Find all projects documented on this vimeo album ^{︎︎︎Go}

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You find all official information about our KISD internal Lab i.e. about latest news, equipment, opening times, LAB guidelines, tutorials, research projects and further inspirations here

(sorry only for registered KISDies):

spaces.kisd.de/mxlab/
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