With farvel, Jennifer Beitel, Markus Traber and Lilli Berger have spent two years developing virtual 3D memory spaces and staging various events in Virtual Space. The team conducted research during the funding period up to and including September 2022 with the help of start-up grants from the Berlin University of the Arts and the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Two companies emerged from the research results and start-up experiences:
Markus Traber and Jennifer Beitel with www.ternaty.com
Lilli Berger with www.vyvyt.com
P.S. All rooms, including Mandy's memory room, will continue to be available under farvel.space and will be jointly managed by us.
Backstage, final preparations are underway for the discussion panel at republica 22 with the topic "Ashes to Dust. Changes in the culture of burial and remembrance". The founders of farvel, the first virtual memory space, Lilli Berger, Markus ...
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Stream running. Camera running. Johanna are you ready? Okay, we are live. "Hello and welcome to the Virtual Reading with Johanna Klug ... " sounds from a blond avatar in the introduction. On December 16 at ...
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