Course content.
Do you want to create new kinds of experiential spaces that fuse art, design and technology? The “Immersive Arts – basic” minor highlights multi-sensorial and performative processes in which the borders between media dissolve and participant and environment become one. You’ll explore design practices for immersive environments, conceive and implement immersive processes as individual or collective experience and experiment with different possibilities in interdisciplinary teams.

Skills acquired in the course
Students learn:
–  to design playful fusions of real and virtual phenomena
–  to apply goal-driven working methods using both high and low-tech approaches
–  to explore and critically reflect on the integration and application of digital technologies (e.g. virtual reality, augmented reality, projection mapping, sensing or 3D audio) in artistic-creative projects.
–  to incorporate and implement interdisciplinary solutions in collaborative work in a constructive and comprehensible manner 

Admissions requirements.
The “Immersive Arts – basic” minor is aimed at all students at ZHdK. Above all, applicants must be curious to explore design and art practices in combination with digital technologies and interested in developing unconventional solutions in an interdisciplinary collaborative manner. Basic knowledge of digital image/sound/space design or creative experience with game engines (e.g. Unity or Unreal) are an advantage.

Language skills required.
You need the following languages to take this minor:
–  English: to be able to follow a discussion
–  English: to actively participate in a verbal exchange
–  English: to understand a text
–  English: to write a text

Benefits of studying this minor.
The minor takes place in the Immersive Arts Space with state-of-the-art infrastructure (e.g. motion capture system, video mapping, 3D audio, virtual and augmented reality headsets). New research findings are continually incorporated into teaching. The professor and research associates have extensive technical expertise and long-standing experience in art and design practices.

Time structure.
The minor takes place as a full-day course in the minor weeks in week 2 to 4 and week 8 to 10 and continues on Friday afternoons during the semester.

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At ZHdK, students choose a Major. In addition to this core subject, they can choose one or two Minors to deepen or expand their major skills and knowledge across various disciplines. This wide choice of courses is unique in Europe and enables students to develop and sharpen their individual profile.