Event Date: 21.11.2019
FIELD is a creative studio specialised in art and technology, striving to create powerful new formats of visual communication. Together with selected brands and cultural institutions, they work as artists, designers and consultants across strategy and branding, moving image, and immersive experiences.
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Event Date: 22.10.2019
Boost combines the competences of interaction, product and user experience design, blending curiosity with common sense.
Initially set out to be a hardware startup with the digital prosthesis “Shortcut”, the founders Max Mahal, Lucas Rex and David Kaltenbach eventually became the design service studio Boost.
As a host to our Studio Visit on Oct 22, Boost talked about their journey so far, the projects, how they work and how they failed to make a product concept reality.
studio-boost.com instagram.com/studio.boost/
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Event Date: 24.09.2019
Berlin-based multi-media artist and design informatics alumni, So Kanno, considers the relationship between human and machine. His work reflects his technical knowledge as well as his insatiable curiosity about the natural world, which allows him to discover new perspectives.
For instance, he translates the synchronization seen in swarming organisms, such as starlings or fireflies, into fluffy-haired robots that communicate via laser beams. They make visible, what nature conceals. Lasermice was recently presented at Ars Electronica festival 2019 in Linz, Austria.
Another exhibition by So Kanno und Takahiro Yang at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media in 2017 examines how visitors and remote-controlled, mobile objects, like a car, a plant, or a catapult interact with each other in a real environment. Any person around the world with access to the exhibition website could log in to one of the devices. Thus, they come alive, provoking new attitudes towards artificial intelligence.
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Event Date: 04.07.2019
For our annual Sommerfest at Retune studio, we brought together the Tech Open Air crowd and our community for a cozy backyard gathering, accompanied by cold beer and and an awesome Lightning Talks session. Thanks to everyone who came over for a chat!
This event was part of the Tech Open Air Satellite program.
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Event Date: 06.06.2019
This was Studio Visit #32 at Monomango, where Creative Director Lois Kainhuber took us on an audiovisual journey through the latest Monomango projects. Not only were we greeted with fresh drinks after, but also invited to try an in-house VR experience and interactive installation. Thanks to Monomango for hosting and for providing some images for this recap.
Monomango a creative studio that unites its core disciplines motion design, film direction and music composition in holistic, immersive spatial concepts.
Lois Kainhuber, Jan Weber and Olivier Fröhlich founded Monomango in 2006 and have since developed experiences in media and space for brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Google, Adidas, Audi, Zeiss or Youtube.
Greifswalder Str. 29
10405 Berlin
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Event Date: 14.05.2019
This time we visited Selam X – a design studio specialized in visual communication for clients from art, culture and commercial projects.
From Berlin and Hamburg, they work in the field of music, fashion, lifestyle and art to provide design strategies for their clients. Their scope ranges from consulting, art direction and visual identity to webdesign, animation and web development.
The collective worked with numerous big names like Adidas, Nike, Yung Hurn, Zalando, NHB, Universal, Broke Boys, Red Bull, Absolut, Vice and many more.
19:30 – Presentation
20:30 – Drinks
Erkelenzdamm 59
10999 Berlin
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Event Date: 23.04.2019
Our April studio visit will take place at Studio HILO, a place to admire precious weavings and spinning machines.
Studio HILO is a Berlin-based studio for digital textile education. They developed a digital spinning machine pretty much like a 3D-printer: The open-source spinning machine HILO is controlled by a software, which allows users to design and produce their own local yarn.
Studio HILO concentrates not only on developing an open source spinning machine but also a community of designers, researchers, small manufacturers and artists for local yarn manufacturing. The studio offers workshops, trainings and cooperations on sustainable yarn manufacturing and design, open hardware machines and digital spinning processes.
We will give a textile life cycle talk, showcase the HILO software and hardware and give you an introduction on how to spin your own yarn.
Sara & Natalija are looking forward to meet you!
19:30 – Presentation 20:30 – Drinks
Blumenthalstr. 8 10783 Berlin
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Event Date: 19.02.2019
For our studio visit this month we are heading to Bianca and Felix, who will present us their real, virtual and augmented artworks! ✨
Bianca Kennedy studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and completed her diploma with a Meisterschüler-degree. Scholarships have brought her to North America, Barcelona, Athens and Tokyo. Kennedy's animations, drawings and site-specific installations were shown at Kunstverein Munich, CCBB São Paulo, C-Gallery Milan and Colombo Art Biennale in Sri Lanka among others. In her analytical stop motion animations she depicts the human abyss and works regularly on photographies and drawing series where she stages self-created miniatures.
Felix Kraus is the founder of The Swan Collective and studied media art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and HfG Karlsruhe. The group mixes different techniques like Virtual Reality animations, painting, paper embossment, literature and performance. Works of the collective were shown in places like Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, C-Gallery Milan, Alessandro Casciaro in Bolzano, Kunsthalle Schweinfurt and the Egyptian Museum Munich.
Multimedia artists Bianca Kennedy & Felix Kraus (The Swan Collective) will open the studio doors to present a mix of their latest works. From three-channel installations and drawings to Virtual and Augmented Reality, the participants will be able to dive into the artists' world. Feel free to try out the various VR headsets and go on an augmented treasure hunt through the studio.
19:00 – Doors 19:30 – Portfolio presentation of Bianca Kennedy & The Swan Collective 20:00 – Augmented Reality treasure hunt and VR experiences
Bianca Kennedy & Felix Kraus Schonensche Straße 5 10439 Berlin S-Bahn: Schönhauser Allee Tram station: Schönhauser Allee/Bornholmerstraße
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Event Date: 24.01.2019
Located in the listed industrial area Oberschöneweide directly on the Spree, AURORA School for ARtists at University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW) opens its doors for a unique Retune Studio Visit! ✨
19:30 – AURORA project presentation, AR hands-on-session & cosy get-together
HTW Berlin Building H Wilhelminenhofstr. 75A 12459 Berlin Phone: 0173 60 255 77 Tram station: Rathenaustr./HTW
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Event Date: 20.11.2018
Maybe you had a chance to see RLON's Timeline installation at Retune Festival 2018, now you got the chance to meet the makers ✨
As children of a rising global consciousness, the three founders understand design as one way to widen our imagination of the future and to encourage individual and confident constructions of realities: “The future is less a shadow of yesterday than a reflection of now. what we think, is what we get. So let us think sassy, brave and juicy. Let us connect the dots not straight but curved. We believe we can contribute to such a liquid thinking, by crafting interactions and narrating stories that trigger awareness and reward curiosity. With the tools of design and the soul of art. So this is what studio RLON creates: objects and narratives for curious spaces.”
19:30 – Talk
20:30 – Discussion, Drinks and Hang-out
You find our studio at Ritterstraße 26. In the backyard look for Entrance "B", take the elevator to 3rd floor, turn left and follow the gangway until the very end til room #315.
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Event Date: 16.10.2018
Founded in 2007, they have since acquired numerous opportunities to collaborate with established and respected international brands. Their vision has always been to appreciate and facilitate the whole media production journey, from idea to premiere. That's why they have their own FILM, DESGIN, VFX and POST-PRODUCTION departments.
OMSTUDIOS also offer their clients a full-service 360 VR workflow, app development, interactive media and everything ranging from AR to MR.
Timor will give incredible examples during the talk which will prove that there is almost no limit to machine learning anymore. In short: We will look at the foundation that is being laid today to create the next revolution in computing, interfaces and how it will become an integral part of our live sooner than we can imagine.
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Event Date: 19.09.2018
We finished the renovation of our studio (Wheee! ✨) and it is time to invite you over!
On Wednesday, 19th September 2018, we open our doors and show you around. We will give an introduction into the Retune Festival program, you will be able to buy tickets ;) and hang out with our friends and partners who are participating in this amazing program!
Of course, there will be some beers too! 🍻
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Event Date: 11.07.2018
Future Center Europe is a unique Volkswagen Group facility where a highly creative team of more than twenty nationalities and from all disciplines is given fantastic new challenges. We push the boundaries of technology and progressive digital workflows to develop holistic experiences. Our role as a creative hub is to inspire the entire Volkswagen Group.
We will be presenting a short history of our studio, a short presentation regarding how we work and have a walk through of the building. During the walk through visitors will have a chance to see our facilities, working environment and maybe see some tech-setups that we are working on. As most of our projects are confidential, we will focus more on how we work in this visit.
We will also talk about our recruiting activities since we are growing our UX team, and this visit is a great chance to get people interested in our positions.
This time, everything is a bit different:
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Event Date: 05.06.2018
Konstruktiv are experts in agile product development and rapid prototyping. Their aim is to help others realize their visions as fast as possible by providing the necessary know-how, design and production skills.
For Retune's Studio Visit @Konstruktiv prepare for serious machine porn and nerd talk galore! They will open the doors to their workshop, show off their tools and current projects. For the extra hungry, food for thought will be served in conversational bits later on.
19:30 show-off-and-tell 20:00 more drinks, all talk
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Event Date: 11.04.2018
Next to their client work undev develops «cables» – a visual creative coding environment and community for developers and designers to create interactive experiences on the web – by connection nodes instead of writing code. cables is currently in private beta.
Program 19:00 doors 19:30 short introduction 20:00 discussion, drinks and hang-out
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Event Date: 14.03.2018
Based in Berlin and Los Angeles, PCH is a multi-disciplinary Innovation Strategy & Technology Development Studio – connecting science, design, engineering, storytelling and art to transform usage patterns, mindsets and business models. By combining our intuitions, skills and talents they explore game-changing topics, and proactively solve for a new global logic based on alternative economic principles alongside scientific and technological breakthroughs.
PCH delivers in-depth research, uniquely designed & engineered concepts, material & technology solutions, as well as high-fidelity digital and physical prototypes. Their projects involve an alchemic recipe of empathic, engaging and empowering discovery. Enabling clients with the latest culture of creativity and innovation, leveraging relevant methods, tools, processes and mindsets. With partnerships including MIT, Google X Labs, DARPA, JPL, UCSD and NASA, we channel cutting-edge science and technology.
The studio is currently focused on generating integrative solutions through 2020/25, such as participative digi-physical installations, brain-computer-interfaces, holographic devices, advanced HMI-systems, blockchain technologies, non-static & shape-shifting structures, sensing materials, optical & nano-material applications, human-robot collaboration solutions, as well as virtual and mixed reality applications to rethink industrial design and development processes.
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