FUTURE CAMPUS RUHR

Check out how in FCR we transform spaces, we empower multidiciplinary artists and the independent scene, we connect the Ruhrgebiet with the world, and still we have plenty of time, energy, and enthusiasm to take your organisation, university, or museum into new heights! Contact us at [email protected] --------- Wir verwandeln Räume, fördern multidisziplinäre Künstler*innen und die Independent-Szene, verbinden das Ruhrgebiet mit der Welt und haben dabei noch Zeit, Energie und Begeisterung, um Ihre Organisation, Universität oder Ihr Museum zu neuen Höhen zu führen. Kontaktieren Sie uns unter [email protected].

Welcome to the Future Campus Ruhr Fulldome Institute (Powered by SyncPhonia) Don't miss our Institute premiere at the opening of our partners @fulldomefestival.mvd on Friday 10th April 2026. ------ About the FCR FDI At the Fulldome Institute, we research, we collect, we catalogue, document and distribute knowledge about the creation of immersive media, especially fulldome. We aim to promote the use of free software and open source code, and try to recreate expensive setups with low cost alternatives. Our projects should save resources, be replicable for many, and foster a a creative spirit of joint multidisciplinary innovation. In this way, we are empowering the next disruptive generation of multidisciplinary Fulldome artists, leading "The Rebels of Fulldome". This self-proclaimed movement creates, mentors and explores artistic development from inside the Fulldome Institute and outside of the unwritten rules and paradigms of the medium. Do you want to be part of our movement? Contact us! [email protected] ------- FCR FDI SHOWREEL 2026 Made by Sofia Mellino and Peter Petersen Music by @hazelrbbts Showcasing works and collaborations made from 2021-2026 with @jan.adamus @rosamichael.digital @digidiva.visuals @formula_lumen @albertmorisseauleroy @sonic_moves @linea2.mx @rotorscope @paschfoto @stefaniekamrath @planetarium.bochum @julie._cst Watch full video at hr/our-projects/fcr-fdi-sp

FCR FOR ALL: @mc_sasha_k FCR PRAKTIKUM S1 (Von 06.02.25 bis 07.07.25) "Das Wichtigste, was ich gelernt habe, ist, dass man selbstbewusst in dem sein muss, was man tut und in seinem Produkt. Man sollte sich seiner Entscheidungen und Handlungen bewusst sein und in der Lage sein, sie zu erklären." Oleksandr Kryuschenko, Juli 2025 ÜBER MEIN PRAKTIKUM Mein erstes Projekt bestand darin, Designs im Stil von FCR zu erstellen, wobei ich die Farbpalette der Grundfarben abwechslungsreicher gestaltet habe. Anschließend habe ich mich mit der Umgestaltung unseres Büros beschäftigt. Hier habe ich in der Werkstatt von Grund auf Akustikpaneele für das Studio gebaut. Ich habe die Holzrahmen zusammengesetzt, sie mit Steinwolle gefüllt und anschließend mit Stoff bezogen. Insgesamt wurden 7 mittelgroße Wandpaneele und 2 große Deckenpaneele gefertigt. Außerdem habe ich das Studio in unserem Büro aufgebaut und darin mit binauralem Sound gearbeitet Ich habe an einem Musikvideodreh für YouTube gearbeitet Eigene Schriftarten entworfen Mit 3D gearbeitet Ein 3D-Modell des FCR-Büros nachgebaut Ein zweiteiliges modulares Gemälde gemalt Am 3D-Modellierungskurs teilgenommen Designs für Websites und Instagram-Posts erstellt und Dokumente für die FCR-Website übersetzt. -------- Musik: #MTP by @mc_sasha_k

#MEET&GREET #FCRPRAKTIKANT2025 MEET OLEKSANDR KRYUSHCHENKO, aka Go2Damn_ aka Sasha, our Future Campus Ruhr Praktikant 2025! Stay tuned to our posts to experience the 2 seasons of Sasha's school internship at FCR! About Sasha From drumming with DeadMay to designing, blogging, and creating video art, Sasha is constantly experimenting with digital art and music, developing his own unique music style. Always chasing what hasn't been done before, he's proof that the most exciting beats are yet to drop! 🎵🎇🥁 About his Internship with FCR With 17 years old, Sasha is taking part in FCR's collaboration with secondary schools in the Ruhrgebiet, in which students are invited to undertake internships in companies and organizations for a specific period of time during their school year. Credits Music by @mc_sasha_k #praktikum #Internship #FCR

mix-realiTEA 1.11.25 - It's all about connecting people and building community Andre left Essen to the other side of the world, with such a positive vision of this city because of us! Thanks to the independent artistic scene efforts, from our colleagues, our neighbours, family and friends, Andre is back in Asunción, showcasing their one-month adventure during the @expyfest , (right now, live in Asunción!). We want to thank all of those who supported in making Andre's time here such a success! (Also full of hand-made cookies and pastries! DANKE 💖🍪🍩) We want to give special thanks to our residency host, the @kunsthausessen , their board members, specially to @sven.dirkmann and Kevin, to open their doors for our crazy passionate ideas + 500 kilos of equipment to temporaly transform the KHE Gästatelier into an immersive room. Huge thanks to Feli! @feliflipsy for the Graphic Design of the MRtea and MOPP poster, all the signage for the event and all your energy to helping us on making it happen. Many thanks also to @kreema_design and @martn_de for attending and exchanging insight about XR with Andre. Andre, lots of success on all your new adventures. You can always count with our support and knowledge :) -------‐--------------- The ICPA-GZ & FCR 2025 Residency is powered by: Instituto Cultural Paraguayo-Alemán / Paraguayisch-Deutsches Kulturinstitut: @icpa_gz Laboratorio de Experiencias Inmersivas Paraguay: @expylab Future Campus Ruhr g.U.G: @futureruhr Secretaría Nacional de Cultura del Paraguay: @cultura_py Special thanks to @kunsthausessen MUSIC MADE BY ANDRE @hazelrbbts

WEEK 4| ICPA-GZ & FCR RESIDENCY 2025 ANDRE ROLON, EXPYLAB 2024 WINNER "EL GRANDE FINALE!" Andre have been pushing the MOPP project further in the last week, advancing towards a new iteration of the project, utilizing game engines, a complex videomapping setup and all kinds of different platforms. And on top of that Andre has been representing and working with FCR Team on all kinds of side projects, meeting people and spreading the word about their project mission: Exploring the creative community and institutions at the "More Future" Event in Dortmund, held by @medienwerk.nrw , giving the chance to network with a lot of actors in the creative and cultural scene in NRW. Helping us rock the installation from Jihye Kim, Witten Fellow 2024 @noendtotheroad_witten , at the Märkisches Museum Witten, bringing their unique personality and positive vibes to the venue, while installing a 270° projection mapping with us from scratch. Hosting a large group of students from the renowned Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, lead by @yesimakdeniz , whom got a glimpse into the exciting workflow that is behind MOPP and showcasing the 5.1 mixdown of the freshly created soundscape. Now, what is left for Andre is to prepare for the GRANDE FINALE: a relaxed session at their own MIXED REALITEA event, held at Kunsthaus Essen. But that is its own story! ------------ From the 30th of September until the 2nd of November, Andre is visiting us in our Essen Headquarters, where they have full access to FCR's technology, knowledge, infrastructure and network, as well as our whole support to develop "Memories of the Present Past" project. The ICPA-GZ & FCR 2025 Residency is powered by: Instituto Cultural Paraguayo-Alemán / Paraguayisch-Deutsches Kulturinstitut: @icpa_gz Laboratorio de Experiencias Inmersivas Paraguay: @expylab Future Campus Ruhr g.U.G: @futureruhr Secretaría Nacional de Cultura del Paraguay: @cultura_py Special thanks to @kunsthausessen MUSIC MADE BY ANDRE @hazelrbbts

WEEK 3 | ICPA-GZ & FCR RESIDENCY 2025 ANDRE ROLON, EXPYLAB 2024 WINNER Alongside the development of a second iteration from Memorias de un Pasado Presente, the dynamic Andre has met Feli, our brand new FCR volunteer who is bursting with hands-on enthusiasm! Feli is specialized in Media and Graphic Design, therefore she worked with Andre in the creation of the Graphic Style of the mix-realiTEA event, as well the "MOPP" project poster. @feliflipsy brought the Swoosh Effect concept to our lives, and even though it's a bit tricky to pronounce, it perfectly captures the emotion that Andre is eager to share in "Mopp". Andre is having a blast in Essen! They have been capturing the best moments with our 360 cameras and 3D scanning techniques, such as the delicious "pan de queso" made by @sven.dirkmann Come by on Saturday 1.11.2025 at 17:00 at the @kunsthausessen and meet Andre in real life before they cross the ocean back on Sunday! --------- From the 30th of September until the 2nd of November, Andre is visiting us in our Essen Headquarters, where they have full access to FCR's technology, knowledge, infrastructure and network, as well as our whole support to develop "Memories of the Present Past" project. The ICPA-GZ & FCR 2025 Residency is powered by: Instituto Cultural Paraguayo-Alemán / Paraguayisch-Deutsches Kulturinstitut: @icpa_gz Laboratorio de Experiencias Inmersivas Paraguay: @expylab Future Campus Ruhr g.U.G: @futureruhr Secretaría Nacional de Cultura del Paraguay: @cultura_py Special thanks to @kunsthausessen MUSIC MADE BY ANDRE @hazelrbbts

mixed-realiTEA 1.11.2025 Artist Andre Rolon presents the results of the ICPA-GZ & FCR 2025 artistic residency, a collaboration between the Paraguayan-German Cultural Institute Goethe Zentrum and the German institution Future Campus Ruhr, at the cultural centre Kunsthaus Essen. A residency awarded to Andre Rolon as the grand prize during the EXPYLAB 2024 awards ceremony with the project ‘‘Memorias de un Pasado Presente". Thanks to the ‘Movilidad 2025’ funds from the National Secretariat of Culture of Paraguay, and with the financial support of the ICPA-GZ, Andre Rolon travelled on 29th September to the central facilities of the FCR and the Kunsthaus in Essen. "MOPP" is an immersive experience that invites us to inhabit the Plaza de los Desaparecidos, a space of remembrance that commemorates the victims of the authoritarian regime of dictator Alfredo Stroessner. This project was originally conceived by Andre Rolon together with Angel Barreto, Ivan Ortiz and Nicolás Ríos during the three-week theoretical-practical residency of EXPYLAB in November 2024. During the course of the residency, Andre continued with the conceptual, aesthetic and technical development of the project, now in its second iteration. FCR is hosting the Andre, in association with the KHE, and supports their development process with its cutting-edge technology infrastructure, as well as its extensive knowledge and international network of experts. The experience is utilising 3D scans of the Plaza, and creates an immersive environment using ViThe experience is utilising 3D scans of the Plaza, and creates an immersive environment using Virtual Reality, 270° round-projection and surround sound. The following people have participated in the second iteration of the project: Andre Rolon (Creative Direction), Peter Petersen (FCR-Technical Supervision), Sofia Mellino (FCR-Production), Felicitas Kowalak (FCR-Design), Angel Barreto and Miguel Gimenez (3D Modelling), Marc-Andre Weibezahn (@sonic_moves -Developer) and @rosamichael.digital (FCR-XR Consulting). Poster designed by @feliflipsy

WEEK 2 | ICPA-GZ & FCR RESIDENCY 2025 ANDRE ROLON, EXPYLAB 2024 WINNER After an incredibly intensive first week of assembly and set-up, the opportunity arose for Andre to express their artistic soul through the creation of the soundtrack and storytelling for the second iteration of "Memorias de un Pasado Presente" (Memories of a Present Past). This time, Andre continued developing their multidisciplinary skills and let their creativity run wild in our state-of-the-art FCR 5.1 Portable Sound Studio, VR headset to draw the path the audience will follow inside the 270° round-projection, and the chance to experiment sound through movement generation with the @sonic_moves App. What does the future brings for the remaining weeks in the Immersive adventure of Andre at FCR's world? Only time will tell! (or you can also attend our event on the 1st November, 5pm, at @kunsthausessen ) ------- We just want to say a big thank you to our friends at Sonic Moves @sonic_moves for being there for us every step of the way. They are so responsive to every adjustment and query, as well as open to the multi-disciplinary development of their app alongside our crazy ideas. -------- From the 30th September until the 2nd of November, Andre is visiting us in our Essen's Headquarters, where they have the full access of FCR's technology, knowledge, infrastructure and network, as well as our whole support to develop "Memories of the Present Past" project. The ICPA-GZ & FCR 2025 Residency is powered by: Instituto Cultural Paraguayo-Alemán / Paraguayisch-Deutsches Kulturinstitut: @icpa_gz Laboratorio de Experiencias Inmersivas Paraguay: @expylab Future Campus Ruhr g.U.G: @futureruhr Secretaría Nacional de Cultura del Paraguay: @cultura_py Special thanks to @kunsthausessen MUSIC MADE BY ANDRE @hazelrbbts

WEEK 1 / ICPA-GZ & FCR RESIDENCY 2025 ANDRE ROLON, EXPYLAB 2024 WINNER During the first week, Andre experienced in first person how we transform spaces for innovative immersive content creation with our own equipment and strong hands. With Feli and Judy's huge help (@feliflipsy and @borsucek ), we managed to move 500 kilos of equipment from Essen Innenstadt to Kunsthaus Essen in less than two days! Five people, two cars, one child and a dog were involved. By the end of week one, we had set up a portable 5.1 sound studio and immersive room, ready to start rocking! What will happen in week 2? We'll keep you posted! Follow the adventure of Andre! From Asunción to Essen for a month. First time of their lives crossing the Atlantic to develop with Future Campus Ruhr their project "Memorias de un Pasado Presente". --------- We also want to thank Valentin and the team of @dortmunderu @koproduktionslabor for the invitation to their offices and the chance for Andre to experience the @page21.art -------- From the 30th September until the 2nd of November, Andre is visiting us in our Essen's Headquarters, where they have the full access of FCR's technology, knowledge, infrastructure and network, as well as our whole support to develop "Memories of the Present Past" project. The ICPA-GZ & FCR 2025 Residency is powered by: Instituto Cultural Paraguayo-Alemán / Paraguayisch-Deutsches Kulturinstitut: @icpa_gz Laboratorio de Experiencias Inmersivas Paraguay: @expylab Future Campus Ruhr g.U.G: @futureruhr Secretaría Nacional de Cultura del Paraguay: @cultura_py Special thanks to @kunsthausessen MUSIC MADE BY ANDRE @hazelrbbts

FCR & ANDRE - Sneak Peak of the first days of the ICPA-GZ & FCR RESIDENCY 2025 EXPY LAB 2024 Winner: Andre Rolon Shaking up the Artist in Residency Room of our colleagues from @kunsthausessen into a Temporal Immersive Production Room & 5.1 Portable Sound Studio All the Equipment you see here belongs to us. Do you also want to have one an immersive portable production room installed at your venue? Then feel free to contact us via [email protected] Music by @hazelrbbts @icpa_gz @expylab @cultura_py @futureruhr

FCR welcomes Andre Rolon, winner of the ICPA-GZ & FCR Award at the EXPY LAB 2024 in Asunción, Paraguay. From the 30th September until the 2nd of November, Andre is visiting us in our Essen's Headquarters, where they have the full access of FCR's technology, knowledge, infrastructure and network, as well as our whole support to develop "Memories of the Present Past" project. The ICPA-GZ & FCR 2025 Residency is powered by: Instituto Cultural Paraguayo-Alemán / Paraguayisch-Deutsches Kulturinstitut: @icpa_gz Laboratorio de Experiencias Inmersivas Paraguay: @expylab Future Campus Ruhr g.U.G: @futureruhr Secretaría Nacional de Cultura del Paraguay: @cultura_py ANIMATIONS & MUSIC MADE BY ANDRE @hazelrbbts -------- About Andre Rolon Kanonnikoff // unkiuts // hazel rbbts Asunción, 1991 Multidisciplinary artist They/Their Their practice combines digital and traditional illustration, performance, costume and textile design, 2D/3D animation, video art, sound installations, and experimental music to explore the complexities of identity and connection in the contempor context. They seek to raise questions about the nature of otherness, memory, embodime dentity, legacy, and (de)construction. Since 2015, they have independently and DIY-ed art exhibitions, concerts, and performance festivals #essen #paraguay #ImmersiveMedia #expylab #futurecampusruhr #icpagz