Biography
Ilja Mirsky has been a dramaturg at the Residenztheater in Munich since the 2022/2023 season. From 2019 to 2022, he served as a dramaturg and occasionally as a programmer at the Institute for Theatrical Future Research at the Zimmertheater in Tübingen. He is pursuing a doctorate on theatre and digitality at the University of Tübingen and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and he is an associate in the doctoral program Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices at the Collegium Helveticum in Zurich.
Ilja studied Cognitive Science at the University of Tübingen, as well as politics, literature, and psychology at the University of Haifa (Israel), and earned a Master's degree in Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg. For his master’s thesis, in which he examined choreography at the intersection of reality and virtual reality, he was awarded the 2020 research prize by the Society for Dance Research. His international artistic work is characterized by a strong focus on VR/AR, AI, and digitalization.
Publication
Demokartie digital verwurzeln (2022)
Medienproduktion der Zukunft. Handlungsempfehlungen für die Wirtschaftsregion Stuttgart (2022)
Leitung am Residenztheater München von Resi Digital