I FEEL YOU




01.06.-20.12.2025
MEDIA FELLOWSHIP NRW 
@ ACADEMY FOR THEATRE AND DIGITALITY.


︎ CONCEPT & DESIGN | UWE BRUNNER, BETTINA KATJA LANGE.
︎ COLLABORATORS & SUPPORT | STEVE NEST.
︎ PHOTO CREDITS | STEVE NEST, SOAP.
︎ PRESS & LINKS | ACADEMY FOR THEATRE AND DIGITALITY, MEDIENWERK.NRW.

I FEEL YOU is an artistic research project being carried out at the Academy of Theatre and Digitality in Dortmund. It is dedicated to investigating intimacy and trust in immersive, media-mediated spaces – on the one hand as an interpersonal and thus intersubjective relationship, and on the other as a technically generated and mediated experience. The aim is to open up new approaches from an artistic-research perspective that deal with the dynamics and interactions of experience-based dimensions of intimacy and trust in and through immersive, digital spaces and their specific forms of interaction.


The investigation focuses on the following questions: Which physical and sensory indicators contribute to the establishment of trust in digital interaction spaces? How does the perception of intimacy and trust change when a real interpersonal encounter is replaced by a technological instance? How can performative strategies of physical and technical co-presence in virtual spaces be developed and captured? And finally: What ethical and aesthetic implications arise from medially mediated intimacy and trust relationships?

To address these questions, an experimental setting in the form of a performative XR laboratory is being developed, which will be made accessible to an interested public in the context of several events.


This research was conceived in collaboration with the Academy of Theatre and Digitality in Dortmund, the M.A. program Theater and Digitality at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and supported by the Medienkunstfellowship NRW, a fellowship for research projects in the thematic area of art, technology, and society.