• Target Audience
This workshop is relevant to media arts practitioners/video artists looking to expand their skillset, digital/interactive content designers (industry), researchers/curators interested in emerging design/art making techniques, arts and media arts students, and other creatives. all these groups seeking alternative content aesthetics and new ways of merging physical and digital objects and locations in their creations will find this workshop beneficial.

• Abstract
The workshop explores the latest tools and design pipelines that leverage ai-assisted methods for capturing high-fidelity digital twins of real-life objects and locations. focusing on neural radiance fields, e.g. 3d gaussian splatting (3dgs), the participants will learn about code-less solutions for end-to-end pipelines, from project planning to object capture and embedding into game engines or video editing software. the workshop agenda includes: theoretical introduction, demonstrations, step-by-step execution guidelines, overview of state-of-the-art case studies, including several narrative and cultural heritage preservation projects undertaken by the tutor. hands-on exercises using smartphones and / or laptops will be conducted, allowing participants to create their own 3dgs scans. by the end of the workshop, participants will gain knowledge on the latest workflows and hands-on skills enabling them to choose a project-tailored pipeline for integrating captures of real-life objects and locations in their own creative media arts projects.

• Target Audience
Theater practitioners (actors, directors, playwrights, and other professionals), performing arts educators, creative technologists, and AI researchers interested in bridging theater and artificial intelligence.

• Abstract
AAAA: Actors, AI, Algorithms, and Arts – Envisioning the Future of the Stage is a one-day workshop that explores the potential of AI technologies as a collaborative tool for acting practice. By integrating advanced AI tools—such as GPT models—this workshop offers actors the opportunity to explore novel approaches to script rehearsal, emotional expression, improvisation, and character development. Through hands-on sessions, participants will collaborate with AI to co-create short scripts, culminating in performances that highlight the fusion of human creativity and AI assistance. Ultimately, the goal is to stage a short play by the end of the workshop.

• Target Audience
The target audience for this workshop includes makers, artists, and designers interested in exploring innovative ways to represent environmental data. Intermedia artists who are familiar with tools such as Max/MSP, TouchDesigner, PureData etc. and who want to learn about intermedia scoring and data polysensualization techniques using tools such as ossia score on embedded systems such as Raspberry Pi are a key demographic. Additionally, theorists and anyone with a general curiosity about the intersection of environmental data and sensory experiences are encouraged to attend.

• Abstract
This hands-on workshop introduces participants to “data polysensualization,” an innovative approach to making invisible environmental data perceptible through multiple senses. Participants will learn how to move beyond traditional data visualization by engaging sight, sound, smell, and touch to create immersive representations of air quality data. The workshop will also provide an introduction to the ossia score software, a powerful tool for intermedia scoring, enabling participants to design and prototype their own multisensory data experiences using sensors and online data sources.

• Target Audience
Those involved in digital art, urban play, creative placemaking: which include curators, producers, art organizers, distributors, exhibitors, students, researchers, artists, designers, and makers.

• Abstract
So, you want to imagine a different world? Start with urban play. This workshop involves walking through an imagined Seoul in 2050, created through urban role play encompassing augmented reality, participatory games, sound, and collective world building. Reworlding embraces actions for change, do-it-together skills and speculative design to answer the question: when one world collapses, how do we build the next?

• Target Audience
Individuals involved in new media and digital art, including students, content planners, artists, video producers, filmmakers, video directors, advertising creators, documentary makers, and XR developers.

• Abstract
The rapid advancement of XR (eXtended Reality) technology is reshaping traditional film and documentary production by enabling immersive and interactive storytelling beyond linear narratives. Unlike conventional visual or audio media, XR engages the whole body, expanding sensory involvement. Media scholar Murray (2020) highlights VR as a blend of cinema, painting, theme park rides, and gaming. However, non-developer creators face technical barriers in XR content production due to the complexity of tools like Unity and Unreal. This workshop introduces the XR Video Kit, a tool developed to simplify XR interactive video creation, allowing creators to focus on narrative and audience immersion. Participants will gain practical skills, explore new XR storytelling methods, and bring their creative visions to life.

• Target Audience
The general public and those involved in the field of new media and digital art: which includes artists, researchers, designers, makers, programmers, curators, producers, art organizers and exhibitors.

• Abstract
People ‘ubiquitously google’ as a habit of new media, yet the dynamics of (re)search is changing with the uptake of GenAI. This hands-on workshop makes use of a bespoke platform (https://re-search.site) that enables participants to visualise, compare and interpret their results from diverse browsers and search engines. It will also explore the ‘art of prompting’ by comparing responses from three chatbots side-by-side in the platform’s interface. Bring your keywords, prompts and laptops!
Supported by SHAPE center, Aarhus University, Denmark.