Are you interested in art and culture formats in combination with augmented, mixed and virtual reality (XR for short) – or are you simply curious about how XR applications are developed technologically? In this IUNO workshop, Christoph will accompany you through the first steps in the software Unity, which can be used to create and use virtual and hybrid 3D worlds. A theoretical section will be followed by first steps and experiments with interactive 3D models in the Unity editor on your own computer.

In order to prepare, please use IUNO Tutorial #01 to install the software Unity free of charge on your own laptop, open the software once at home and bring your computer to the workshop with you. If you have any problems installing or opening the software, we are happy to help – just send us an email by July 15 to hi-iuno [at] htw-berlin.de (hi-iuno[at]htw-berlin[dot]de).


In German spoken language

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The Berlin Performing Arts Program in cooperation with IUNO – the Innovation Center for Intelligent and Immersive Technologies in the Independent Arts Community

The Berlin Performing Arts Program serves all independent dance and theater makers in Berlin and is dedicated to the situation and needs of the community. Since 2013, we have been working toward the professionalization, strengthening of the infrastructure and improved visibility of the independent performing arts in Berlin.

The EU-funded IUNO – Innovation Center for Intelligent and Immersive Technologies in the Independent Arts Community at HTW Berlin serves the independent arts community and creative industries of Berlin with tailor-made opportunities in extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI). With workshops, artistic fellowships and events, IUNO strengthens forward-looking competencies, supports exchange and networking and produces innovative artistic formats with XR as contribution to the societal AI discourse. Additional information can be found at: https://iuno.fki.htw-berlin.de/

All of the formats are free of charge thanks to the EFRE funding in the program “Strengthening the Innovative Potential in Culture III” (INP-III)* and/or funding from the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)** and Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Community.

Many freelancers spend a lot of time with organization, communication and administration – often using tools that they already know (email, Word, Excel, Google). This seminar uses an everyday four-step approach to show how an input can be processed with a suitable AI assistant and integrated within your working structure in order to ultimately generate a desired result such as an email, a spreadsheet, et cetera. AI will then be practice using a consistent example – from a phone call to a voice memo to sending a follow-up email and archiving contacts – without programming and with a focus on one’s practice and with materials to take away.

In addition, the seminar will provide suitable app/office solutions for recurring tasks and tips for practical cautionary steps to ensure privacy. The workshop is intended for freelancers and GbRs working in the independent performing arts –with and without prior experience in the use of AI tools. No programming knowledge is required.

Participants are asked to bring a laptop or tablet with WLAN and access to text/spreadsheet tools as well as a browser AI (e.g ChatGPT or Claude).


In German spoken language

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The Berlin Performing Arts Program in cooperation with IUNO – the Innovation Center for Intelligent and Immersive Technologies in the Independent Arts Community

The Berlin Performing Arts Program serves all independent dance and theater makers in Berlin and is dedicated to the situation and needs of the community. Since 2013, we have been working toward the professionalization, strengthening of the infrastructure and improved visibility of the independent performing arts in Berlin.

The EU-funded IUNO – Innovation Center for Intelligent and Immersive Technologies in the Independent Arts Community at HTW Berlin serves the independent arts community and creative industries of Berlin with tailor-made opportunities in extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI). With workshops, artistic fellowships and events, IUNO strengthens forward-looking competencies, supports exchange and networking and produces innovative artistic formats with XR as contribution to the societal AI discourse. Additional information can be found at: https://iuno.fki.htw-berlin.de/

All of the formats are free of charge thanks to the EFRE funding in the program “Strengthening the Innovative Potential in Culture III” (INP-III)* and/or funding from the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)** and Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Community.

Imagine that you are communicating in real time with your digital twin – in a virtual 3D world like virtual reality, for example. This IUNO workshop will show you how things work! We will start with a theoretical introduction in order to create a digital twin of ourselves and connect it with a large language model (like ChatGPT) in the software Unity. In this workshop, we will use plugins that do not require any programming knowledge in order to achieve a basic understanding for setting up socially interactive agents in extended reality environments.

In order to prepare, please use IUNO Tutorial #01 to install the software Unity free of charge on your own laptop, open the software once at home and bring your computer to the workshop with you. If you have any problems installing or opening the software, we are happy to help – just send us an email by July 15 to hi-iuno [at] htw-berlin.de (hi-iuno[at]htw-berlin[dot]de).

Initial knowledge of Unity, e.g. from the workshop XR Development with Unity on July 16 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm is beneficial, but not required.


In English spoken language

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The Berlin Performing Arts Program in cooperation with IUNO – the Innovation Center for Intelligent and Immersive Technologies in the Independent Arts Community

The Berlin Performing Arts Program serves all independent dance and theater makers in Berlin and is dedicated to the situation and needs of the community. Since 2013, we have been working toward the professionalization, strengthening of the infrastructure and improved visibility of the independent performing arts in Berlin.

The EU-funded IUNO – Innovation Center for Intelligent and Immersive Technologies in the Independent Arts Community at HTW Berlin serves the independent arts community and creative industries of Berlin with tailor-made opportunities in extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI). With workshops, artistic fellowships and events, IUNO strengthens forward-looking competencies, supports exchange and networking and produces innovative artistic formats with XR as contribution to the societal AI discourse. Additional information can be found at: https://iuno.fki.htw-berlin.de/

All of the formats are free of charge thanks to the EFRE funding in the program “Strengthening the Innovative Potential in Culture III” (INP-III)* and/or funding from the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)** and Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Community.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can simplify artistic processes and make them less expensive for art and culture makers – such as motion tracking, for example. This technology is used to record body movements and transfer them, to 3D avatars, for example. This IUNO workshop first offers an overview of different motion capture methods and their use in an artistic context. Finally, we will experiment with AI-controlled apps and video-based tools in order to record movements and transfer them to avatars in Unity. Using a practice-oriented approach, we will learn about both opportunities and limitations of this easily accessible and promising approach in comparison to professional motion capture suits.

In order to prepare, please use IUNO Tutorial #01 to install the software Unity free of charge on your own laptop, open the software once at home and bring your computer to the workshop with you. If you have any problems installing or opening the software, we are happy to help – just send us an email by July 15, 2026 to hi-iuno [at] htw-berlin.de (hi-iuno[at]htw-berlin[dot]de).

For the second half of the workshop, initial knowledge of Unity, e.g. from the workshop XR Development with Unity on July 16 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm is beneficial, but not required.


In English spoken language

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The Berlin Performing Arts Program in cooperation with IUNO – the Innovation Center for Intelligent and Immersive Technologies in the Independent Arts Community

The Berlin Performing Arts Program serves all independent dance and theater makers in Berlin and is dedicated to the situation and needs of the community. Since 2013, we have been working toward the professionalization, strengthening of the infrastructure and improved visibility of the independent performing arts in Berlin.

The EU-funded IUNO – Innovation Center for Intelligent and Immersive Technologies in the Independent Arts Community at HTW Berlin serves the independent arts community and creative industries of Berlin with tailor-made opportunities in extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI). With workshops, artistic fellowships and events, IUNO strengthens forward-looking competencies, supports exchange and networking and produces innovative artistic formats with XR as contribution to the societal AI discourse. Additional information can be found at: https://iuno.fki.htw-berlin.de/

All of the formats are free of charge thanks to the EFRE funding in the program “Strengthening the Innovative Potential in Culture III” (INP-III)* and/or funding from the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)** and Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Community.

Artificial intelligence is quickly changing work in the cultural sector and contains challenges and risks as well as countless potentials. In this workshop, we will show you how artists and culture makers use AI tools for the often-invisible organizational work behind artistic practice. At the same time, we will critically reflect upon ethical questions and practical pitfalls: for example, funding applications created with AI often seem interchangeable and repetitive or contain clear errors, which costs jurors as well as applicants time and opportunities.

The participants will become acquainted with practical AI tools and will try out methods for using them effectively and responsibly. Together, we will create strategies for how AI can actually save time and enrich processes, without endangering originality and authenticity. We will look at how it can be supportive for funding applications, project suggestions and administrative tasks as well as ease communication, budgeting and accounting as well as research and the organization of information.

We will compare various AI tools and automated systems to find out which ones can actually be adapated to our individual needs. To do so, we will experiment with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other AI-based systems. The goal is to understand AI not as a threat but instead as a “super assistant” – a tool that can support creativity and efficiency.


In English spoken language, it is possible to ask questions and make comments using German and Russian spoken language

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The Berlin Performing Arts Program in cooperation with IUNO – the Innovation Center for Intelligent and Immersive Technologies in the Independent Arts Community

The Berlin Performing Arts Program serves all independent dance and theater makers in Berlin and is dedicated to the situation and needs of the community. Since 2013, we have been working toward the professionalization, strengthening of the infrastructure and improved visibility of the independent performing arts in Berlin.

The EU-funded IUNO – Innovation Center for Intelligent and Immersive Technologies in the Independent Arts Community at HTW Berlin serves the independent arts community and creative industries of Berlin with tailor-made opportunities in extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI). With workshops, artistic fellowships and events, IUNO strengthens forward-looking competencies, supports exchange and networking and produces innovative artistic formats with XR as contribution to the societal AI discourse. Additional information can be found at: https://iuno.fki.htw-berlin.de/

All of the formats are free of charge thanks to the EFRE funding in the program “Strengthening the Innovative Potential in Culture III” (INP-III)* and/or funding from the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)** and Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Community.