Name: XR-History Award nominees panel hosted by Simon Strick
Start: 2026-05-15T16:45:00+0200
End: 2026-05-15T18:00:00+0200

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XR-History Award nominees panel hosted by Simon Strick

Friday May 15, 2026 16:45 - 18:00 CEST

Betonhalle [Silent Green]

A panel discussion with all XR-History Award nominees hosted by Simon Strick

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Artists

Peter Polack (he/they)

Sickness International

Peter Polack (Sickness International) is an artist and researcher using illness to examine how technology shapes trust and perception. Each game, song, and theory opens onto a world where the human brain has been molded into a videogame-hosting infrastructure. His work has been published... Read More →

Ren Loren Britton (they/them)

Ren Loren Britton (they/he) is a trans-disciplinary artist-designer invested in Trans*Feminism,
Technosciences, Radical Pedagogy and Disability Justice; living and working in Berlin,
Germany. They make multi-sensorial media installations that unseat sensory and
communication hierarc... Read More →

Simon Strick (he/him)

Simon Strick is an independent media/cultural studies scholar and writer. He has published widely on a variety of subjects relating to critical race theory, gender, performativity, affect and questions of the popular. In 2021, he published Rechte Gefühle (transcript), a widely cited... Read More →

Verónica Sabat

Cuerpos Migrantes

Friday May 15, 2026 16:45 - 18:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, Berlin, Germany

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A MAZE. / Berlin 2026

Peter Polack (he/they)

Ren Loren Britton (they/them)

Simon Strick (he/him)

Verónica Sabat

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A MAZE. / Berlin 2026

Peter Polack (he/they)

Ren Loren Britton (they/them)

Simon Strick (he/him)

Verónica Sabat

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