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EMBED Emerging Digital Arts

By Grand Theatre & WERC_SpaceĀ 

Grand Theatre & WERC_Space are joining forces to showcase northern digital art pioneers at Noorderzon. In this container, the future of art becomes tangible with screenings of new works and previous successes. Fascinating video installations, multi-disciplinary performances, and daring audio-visual experiments that could become leading in the theater in the near future, both offline and online. 

Tickets are only available on-site, on the day of the performance.

Entrance
€ 7,-
Duration
30 minutes
Language
Language no problem
Accessibility

Theatre in transition

August 14-16 | Babak Modarresi & Soroush Azari - Lost Coordinates
An experimental VR experience created collaboratively with artificial intelligence. Participants enter an AI-generated world filled with broken and fragmented objects, resembling a demolished landscape.

The goal is simple: the VR participant has 15 minutes to find enough familiar-looking pieces (not completely AI generated objects) to assemble a stool on which they can rest. The experience mixes virtual reality gameplay and live spectatorship.

August 17-20 | Vida Kashani, Amir Komelizadeh & Kamran Arashnia - Ephemeral Echoes
Ephemeral Echoes is an audio-visual live show, a collaboration between Vida Kashani, Amir Komelizadeh and Kamran Arashnia. The project emerges from our shared exploration of digital media, cinema, sound art and spatial design, creating a rich tapestry of sensory experiences that delve into renature of the human existence and identity.

Through the use of immersivity, Ephemeral Echoes embarks audience on a live audio-visual odyssey, unfolding in four distinct acts. Each act, resonating with fluidity, urgency, tranquility, and serene calm, invites audience to navigate the shifting landscapes of emotion led by productivity. This journey traverses the delicate boundaries between the ephemeral and the eternal, challenging audience to confront the impermanence of their perceptions in a world ever poised on the brink of transformation.

August 20-24 | Wieger Steenhuis & Jules van Hulst - Test image
TESTBEELD is a testing ground for an experiment from the UMBILD project. The project aims to give new expression to existing visual art through media installations. What shifts artistically in a representation, and what does that teach us about then and now? This work is an invitation to become part of the art history of the present.

TESTBEELD
is a continuous, standalone media installation. Through Polaroid glasses, you get a glimpse over the shoulder of a Belgian sculpture from the fin de siècle.

About the artist

WERC_Space is supported by the Municipality of Groningen. Grand Theatre's digital future vision is made possible in part by Fonds21.