Mixed Reality Encounters

Mixed Reality Encounters is a platform for shared research, discussions, workshops, research trips and knowledge production. The primary interest for this research group is exploring the specific encounter between artwork and spectator–participant–user–audience; novel technologies specific to interactive design and digital interaction within performative installation; and the overlap between social practice and technology.

The group brings together practitioners working across methods, materials, artistic expressions and professional backgrounds, functioning as a platform for exchange between the members, and secondarily as an actor to advance this area of research within the Art Faculty at KMD. 

Through our individual and collective artistic research – generating artworks and contributing to the field of new media, installation, design and contemporary performance – the group critically reflects upon the ethical implications of technology, interaction and participation and its impact on society, politics and culture. Our individual practices are currently focused on the dramaturgy of translation, tourism, sonic intimacies, and narrative nets.

The research group is a collaboration between the Department of Contemporary Art and the Department of Design at KMD.