Zheng Mahler, What is it like to be a (virtual) bat, 2022. 3D point cloud animation, 08.41. © The artists

FOR REAL – Artist talk on art, technology and science

As part of the exhibition "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" at Kunsthalle Mainz

17 Mar 2023
18:00 – 20:00
Kunsthalle Mainz
Am Zollhafen 3-5
55118 Mainz

Since 7 March 2023 the major ifa-commission, the virtual artwork "What is it like to be a (virtual) bat" by Zheng Mahler is accesible on areyouforreal.ifa.de. In addition to the purely virtual form, the work can now also be experienced in physical space in the exhibition "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" at Kunsthalle Mainz from 17 March 2023 to 4 June 2023, which will present the guided meditation in virtual reality and as an immersive video installation. Videos from the research phase of the project will also be shown alongside a research zine which documents the various elements of their field research and development of the work.

Panelists: Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė, Royce Ng (Zheng Mahler), Giulia Bini (curator EPFL CDH-AiR Programm ENTER THE HYPER-SCIENTIFIC & ARE YOU FOR REAL Phase II) and Yasmin Afschar. The event will be held in English.

This event is a cooperation of Kunsthalle Mainz with the ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, in the framework of the project ARE YOU FOR REAL.
Entry included in admission.

Laura Wünsche

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