This project is an attempt to create new access point to feeling and understanding the amplitude of inhumane violence that took place ..
From the fall of 2021 to spring of 2022, Tijuana-and Duesseldorf -based artist Shinpei Takeda guided a series of virtual-reality workshops with five selected participants across the globe who are immigrants and refugees as well as military veterans, as they shared stories about how their physical, social, and psychological spaces have been impacted by their experiences. Participants worked with the artist collaboratively to envision, design, and create an expression of their safe spaces within the virtual environment. Those workshops were done entirely in VR using the software Gravity Sketch. The created modells were exported and optimized for augmented reality using the software Blender.
Shinpei Takeda (1978, Osaka Japan) is an artist and filmmaker based in Mexico and Germany. Through wide range of medium, his work circulates around (anti) monumentality of memories in space and time evident in his various projects such as "Hiroshima Nagasaki Download", "Alpha Decay" and "Antimonument". He has also been collecting interviews of atomic bomb survivors living oversea since 2005. For more information regarding the Artist, follow www.shinpeitakeda.com
Jens Herder, Jewgeni Birkhoff, Tobias Schlüter
"Mixed Reality Art Experiments - Immersive Access to Collective Memories", Jens Herder, Shinpei Takeda, Kai Vermeegen, Till Davin, Dominique Berners, Bektur Ryskeldiev, Christian Zimmer, Ivana Druzetic, and Christian Geiger), ISEA2019, Proceedings, 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art, pp. 334-341, Gwangju, South Korea, June 22-28, 2019.
Project of: Oceanside Museum of Art, CA, USA
Technical partner: Hochschule Düsseldorf, University of Applied Science, VS/VR lab, Germany
Sponsor: Gravity Sketch (licenses for the vr collaboration software Gravity Sketch, including cloud service Landingpad)
Community partner: Integrarte (Treviso, Italy), Borderclick/Josemar Gonzalez (Tijuana, Mexico), Borderline Crisis Center (Tijuana, Mexico), Vetarts (San Diego, California)