Anke Schiemann

Background

About Anke Schiemann

I am a media artist and XR Designer based in Berlin and Munich and am interested in exploring new ways of narrative and shaping them into immersive, sensory installations. I experiment primarily with XR and spatialized sound, frequently collaborating with musicians. My work deals with themes of hybridization in contemporary technological utopias and speculative futures in the age of the Anthropocene. Throughout all my works, animation always serves as a tool to inject a surreal element and bring fine art practice such as drawing and painting into the filmic experience. My background as a set designer helps me to design the stage for these moments of distorted reality to take place. MY works have been shown at festivals and exhibitions around the world including the Centre Pompidou, Currents, Laval Virtual Recto VRso, SAT Montreal, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Encounters Film Festival and the Performing Arts Festival Berlin. I received scholarships from the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, the German Künstlerbund and the Research Institute of the Deutsche Museum, Munich.