Schmiede Labs

X-Reality Lab: Workshop – Hackathon- Presentation

X-Reality Lab: Workshop – Hackathon- Presentation

MozXR ist ein Open-Source-Framework für Unreal Engine, dass die Entwicklung und den Betrieb immersiver XR-Anwendungen in komplexen Projektions- und Interaktionsumgebungen vereinfacht. In dem Workshop wird das framework vorgestellt und wie man seine zentralen Funktionen wie Multi-Screen-Rendering, räumliches Tracking, Cluster-Synchronisation, Spatial Audio sowie Deployment- und Debugging-Workflows gemeinsam in der wrapper software nutzen kann. Die Inhalte werden […]

Mycelium Lab @ Schmiede26

Mycelium Lab @ Schmiede26

Deutsch drunter Drawing on the understanding of mycelium as process rather than a thing, thinking on speculation and more-than-human entanglement, the framing of fungi as artistic and methodological collaborators and the call to stay with the trouble rather than resolve it, the performers and artists A. Isa Araújo and Ina Thomann ask what happens when […]

accomplices 33⅓ Lab @ Schmiede26

accomplices 33⅓ Lab @ Schmiede26

English below lab leaders: Bernd Gutmannsbauer, Julia Eckstein, Karl Stocker Bernd Gutmannsbauer, Schallplattenunterhalter und Künstlerischer Leiter von accomplices – Verein zur Erkundung multimedialer Ausdrucksformen, legt bei der Schmiede 2026 den Fokus auf die Kunst des Djing. Wir nähern uns dem Thema in theoretischer, praktischer und anekdotischer Weise an. 1.     Im philosophischen Lesekreis erörtern […]

TeleAgriCulture Living Lab @ Schmiede 26

TeleAgriCulture Living Lab @ Schmiede 26

This year TeleAgriCulture returns to Schmiede to host a  living lab that intersects fermenting ideas, cultures (and locally sourced food) with digital sensing and machine learning. We are back bigger and better, ready to hack and disrupt infrastructures of control over environmental data, sensing and networking architectures, and personal food practices, to co-create better ways […]

Staging Realities at X-Reality-Lab @ Schmiede26

Staging Realities at X-Reality-Lab @ Schmiede26

A new immersive space featuring projection-based virtual reality, the X-Reality Lab is being inaugurated on SEP24 2026 at the Mozarteum University — The mobile version of X-Reality Lab  plus the developer team will join Schmiede26. In this lab, organized jointly by the University Mozarteum and the Ars Electronica Futurelab, participants will collaboratively design and produce […]

Ai Lab @ Schmiede26

Ai Lab @ Schmiede26

 Stephanie Meisl will return and focus on genJAM Whether your background is in film, design, music, games, or brand storytelling, Machine Cinema’s GenJAM offers a structured space to experiment, learn new workflows, and connect with fellow collaborators. Expect a fast-paced, welcoming environment for both beginners and advanced creators.   An intensive, collaborative GenJAM, where participants […]

A(i)A(i)A(i)nimation Lab @ Schmiede26

A(i)A(i)A(i)nimation Lab @ Schmiede26

Animation is boring and difficult!  Maybe at Schmiede things are different?! NO! We want to explore analogue techniques, and torture ourselves. There might be salt, sand or pain(t) involved, maybe other stuff we find on the way. AI can do a quicker job, but that would be too easy for us suffering artists, and feed […]