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Festival für Games, interaktive Kunst und digitales Theater

13.11. — 16.11.25

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Program

to highlight
15/11/2025
Dortmunder U, 20:45 – o'clock

./drum.code

A hybrid concert featuring live coding, drums, and AI-driven improvisation.

to highlight
14/11/2025
Dortmunder U, 11:00 – 20:00 o'clock

TRANSmission: Enjoy Community Extended

The networking and discussion format Enjoy Community brings together artists, curators, developers, students, and partner institutions to discuss the present and future of digital arts.

to highlight
13/11/2025

Quantum Jungle

An interactive light installation about the secrets of the quantum world.

to highlight
13/11/2025
Artists' House Dortmund, 11:00 – 20:00 o'clock

TRANSmission: Exhibition

The media exhibition at Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund is one of the festival’s cornerstones and presents a panorama of contemporary digital arts.

to highlight
13/11/2025
Projektspeicher, 11:00 – 20:00 o'clock

TRANSmission: No End to the Road

The Fellowship No End To The Road of the Kulturforum Witten invites you to an immersive Playground

Days
  • Artists' House Dortmund

TRANSmission: Exhibition

The media exhibition at Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund is one of the festival’s cornerstones and presents a panorama of contemporary digital arts.

Exhibition, Exhibition
  • Digitale Werkbank

TRANSmission: Games Parcours

Games Games Games

Exhibition, Exhibition, Games, VR
  • Projektspeicher

TRANSmission: No End to the Road

The Fellowship No End To The Road of the Kulturforum Witten invites you to an immersive Playground

Exhibition, Exhibition
  • Dortmunder U

TRANSmission: Enjoy Community Extended

The networking and discussion format Enjoy Community brings together artists, curators, developers, students, and partner institutions to discuss the present and future of digital arts.

Discussion, Talk
  • Nansen

Hysteresis

A multimedia installation between VR, car tuning, and video

Exhibition, VR
Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

QUEUE

A dystopian XR experience blending game, concert, and audio play.

Interactive Art, VR
© OBLIQUE SENSATIONS
Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Department of Interfaced Dimensions (D.I.D)

A collective XR experiment on identity, control, and group dynamics

Exhibition, Interactive Art, VR
department of interfaced dimensions c v2
Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Metamorphotica

An interactive XR installation about transformation and new sensory experiences.

Interactive Art, VR
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Open Workshops: Non-place, Trace and Transformation

From Friday afternoon, the mobile experience space at the harbor will be open to all festival visitors.

Workshop
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Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Waluigi’S Purgatory

An interactive performance about AI, deception, and collective decisions.

Interactive Art, Performance
Touring Roma Europa Festival 2024 2
  • Dortmunder U
Talk
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  • Dortmunder U

All That Remains – Eine Spurenskulptur

auf der uzwei: Ein gemeinschaftliches Kunstwerk zusammengestellt von Rafael Hengelbrock und Sarah Wegmann

Ausstellung
all that remains c christopher bonk
  • Dortmunder U

Page 21 – der immersive Raum

Erkunde neue Welten im immersiven Raum des Projektes Page 21 im Dortmunder U.

Ausstellung, Interaktive Kunst
titelbild page 21 ©lennartmiketta
Registration required
  • Artists' House Dortmund

Catch Art if You Can

An interactive performance game by students of Scenic Research

Performance
website bild catch art if you can
  • Co-production Lab
Exhibition, Talk
Registration required
  • Co-production Lab

Form and Feeling – VR Sculpting Workshop

KoLab Days Workshop Series: electronic feelings

Workshop
marc workshop
Registration required
  • Co-production Lab

Make Noise with Data Workshop – Computers Have Feelings Too

KoLab Days Workshop Series: electronic feelings

Workshop
  • Dortmunder U

All Unsaved Progress Will be Lost

A VR experience about disaster, memory, and resilience

VR
All Unsaved Progress Will be Lost 2
  • Dortmunder U

Persona.Fractalis: Infinite Cities

In the ICAROS flight simulator: An immersive journey through algorithmic fractal landscapes.

Exhibition, VR
Fractals © Emil Gerhardt
Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Metamorphotica

An interactive XR installation about transformation and new sensory experiences.

Interactive Art, VR
  • Nansen

Hysteresis

A multimedia installation between VR, car tuning, and video

Exhibition, VR
Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Department of Interfaced Dimensions (D.I.D)

A collective XR experiment about identity, control, and group dynamics

Exhibition, Interactive Art, VR
department of interfaced dimensions c v2
Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

QUEUE

A dystopian XR experience blending game, concert, and audio play.

Interactive Art, VR
© OBLIQUE SENSATIONS
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Open Workshops: Non-place, Trace and Transformation

From Friday afternoon, the mobile experience space at the harbor will be open to all festival visitors.

Workshop
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Registration required
  • Digitale Werkbank

TARA – there are Real Alternatives (the Card Game)

A playful experiment about the future and community.

Discussion, Games, Interactive Art
Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Waluigi’S Purgatory

An interactive performance about AI, deception, and collective decisions.

Interactive Art, Performance
Touring Roma Europa Festival 2024 2
Registration required
  • Artists' House Dortmund

Catch Art if You Can

An interactive performance game by students of Scenic Research

Performance
website bild catch art if you can
Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

The Trial against Humanity

An interactive sci-fi performance about guilt, consciousness, and artificial love.

Performance, Theater
The process against humanity oha 21
  • Dortmunder U
Concert
2
  • Co-production Lab
Concert, Exhibition
artist talk
Registration required
  • Co-production Lab

Connecting Signals – Workshop for Audiovisual Live Improvisation

KoLab Days Workshop Series: electronic feelings

Workshop
Registration required
  • Co-production Lab

Mind-Loops – Audio-reactive Visuals in Blender

KoLab Days Workshop Series: electronic feelings

Workshop
Registration required
  • Schauspiel Dortmund

Dungeon Crawler X Octopussy

Two interactive performances that combine theater, game mechanics, and urban landscape.

LARP, Theater
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  • Dortmunder U

How to Bury your Digital Twin

An audiovisual performance about saying goodbye to a digital twin.

Concert, Performance
© asidron
  • Nansen

Hysteresis

A multimedia installation between VR, car tuning, and video

Exhibition, VR
Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Department of Interfaced Dimensions (D.I.D)

A collective XR experiment on identity, control, and group dynamics

Exhibition, Interactive Art, VR
department of interfaced dimensions c v2
Registration required
  • Dortmunder U

Workshop: Beyond the Light: Luminous Narratives

The workshop uses projection as an artistic medium to make personal and social issues visible.

Workshop
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Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

SONA – EXPLORATIONS IN SONIC VR

A VR installation that makes seeing through hearing an experience

Games, Performance, VR
Screenshot
Registration required
  • Artists' House Dortmund

Bird’s-eye View on Dortmund – Walkshop

A participatory city walk exploring urban biodiversity and digital storytelling.

Workshop
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Open Workshops: Non-place, Trace and Transformation

From Friday afternoon, the mobile experience space at the harbor will be open to all festival visitors.

Workshop
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Registration required
  • Digitale Werkbank

TARA – there are Real Alternatives (the Card Game)

A playful experiment about the future and community.

Discussion, Games, Interactive Art
Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Me, Myself & My Avatars: it Takes 2 + Ponyboy

Virtual bodies that radically transform the self.

Interactive Art, VR
  • Dortmunder U

./drum.code

A hybrid concert featuring live coding, drums, and AI-driven improvisation.

Concert, Performance
© pauluz
  • Dortmunder U

Webscape Navigation

A live coding performance that stages the web as an accessible, performative space.

Concert, Performance
  • Dortmunder U

How to Bury your Digital Twin

An audiovisual performance about saying goodbye to a digital twin.

Concert, Performance
© asidron
  • Dortmunder U

Spuren lesen, Welten wandeln

auf der uzwei – Empfohlen ab 12 Jahren (Kostenfrei, keine Anmeldung erforderlich)

Workshop
3d c christopher bonk
  • Dortmunder U

Page 21 × No End to the Road

Neue Perspektiven des Immersiven

Ausstellung, Interaktive Kunst
rayleigh river
Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

The Trial against Humanity

An interactive sci-fi performance about guilt, consciousness, and artificial love.

Performance, Theater
The process against humanity oha 21
  • Co-production Lab
Exhibition
artist talk
  • Dortmunder U

River (Immersive Version)

A video installation as a poetic threshold between worlds.

Exhibition
  • Nansen

Hysteresis

A multimedia installation between VR, car tuning, and video

Exhibition, VR
Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Department of Interfaced Dimensions (D.I.D)

A collective XR experiment on identity, control, and group dynamics

Exhibition, Interactive Art, VR
department of interfaced dimensions c v2
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Open Workshops: Non-place, Trace and Transformation

From Friday afternoon, the mobile experience space at the harbor will be open to all festival visitors.

Workshop
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Registration required
  • Artists' House Dortmund

Workshop: Immersive Interaction with TouchDesigner & HTC Vive Trackers

A hands-on introduction to movement, sensors, and creative real-time visualization with TouchDesigner.

Workshop
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Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

SONA – EXPLORATIONS IN SONIC VR

A VR installation that makes seeing through hearing an experience

Games, Performance, VR
Screenshot
Registration required
  • Academy for Theatre and Digitality

Me, Myself & My Avatars: it Takes 2 + Ponyboy

Virtual bodies that radically transform the self.

Interactive Art, VR