Speakers
Description
The proposed workshop addresses strategies for onboarding, awareness, and offboarding in designing virtual experiences. In particular, it will explore the social and ethical dimensions involved in using new media and gaming technologies. Specific ethical topics to be addressed include accessibility, and preventing discrimination in virtual environments. The workshop will reflect on how to create inclusive spaces, deal with problematic content, and foster positive social interaction. Participants will exchange perspectives on balancing creativity and responsibility when developing novel media experiences. It is aimed at cultural workers, educators, and professionals working at the intersection of technology, games, entertainment, media, and the arts. By imparting practical skills for the diversity-sensitive design of virtual experiences, the workshop wants to contribute to interdisciplinary dialogue at the WAAE summit 2024. The workshop can be attended by 12 participants.
CV
Sina Schmidt, Henrike Janssen
Sina Schmidt graduated from the music department of the Landesschule Pforta. After studying German literature, philosophy and musicology in Dresden and Potsdam, she worked as an assistant director and dramaturge. In 2012 she founded her own theater company, with which she has since realized her site-specific performances oriented towards artistic research. In recent years, for instance, she has created the productions "Spam!", "#netzwerke"/"#theater" (2015), "Men in Space - Ikarus" (2017), the documentary music theater piece "Schreibtischherrschaft" (2016), "Don't Cry, Work" (2017), the lecture performance "Auf Abwegen" and the mobile music theater piece "Von Wegen - auf der Suche nach Fontanes Brandenburg" (2019). In addition, she developed the multimedia performance "Observations" on the topic of self-representation and surveillance, which was shown in 2019 at the performance festival "Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?" and in 2020 at the international theater festival Olga Alosono in Fomento, Cuba.
Henrike Janssen studied from 2004 to 2006 performing arts at the University of Music and Theatre in Rostock. She successfully completed her studies with the production "Anhaltspunkt", which she staged together with Janine Schäferhoff in the youth club of the Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam. After her studies in Rostock, she returned to Berlin and trained as an occupational therapist. After working for three years, Henrike began studying social work at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. Since successfully completing her studies in 2017, she has been working in a girls' residential project. In June 2023 Henrike completed her master's degree in social work as a human rights profession at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. The focus of her master's thesis was the development of a guideline for discrimination-sensitive online educational offerings via the video chat platform Zoom.
