Phase 2 – The Production Lab: 

The Research Lab led up to the Production Lab which took place during July and August where the participants developed their XR projects with the support of the mentors and the techies team provided by Medrar. The participating artists were Agnes Michalczyk, Farida Serageldin, who both participated in the Research phase, and Zeyad Aboughaly, Ahmed Nader, Joseph Adel and Amr Ali. 

About the production lab’s mentors:

• Mohamed Shoukry — https://mohamedshoukry.com/ 
• Ozan Güngör 

The Production Lab will be followed by an exhibition of the produced XR artworks, held at Medrar for Contemporary Art in Cairo. 

The projects:

Unplugged by Zeyad Aboghaly

The Flood by Joseph Adel

The Bridge by Agnes Michalczyk

Nowhere by Amr Ali

Fragmented Fantasy by Ahmed Nader

If Memory Serves by Farida Serageldin

The exhibition opens on Sunday, September 3rd at 7 PM and continues until September 17th.

The exhibition is open daily from 4 to 9 PM.

Extended Ecologies is organized by Medrar for Contemporary Art and Critical Media Lab (CML) with the support of Pro Helvetia Cairo. 

*This project falls under Medrar’s recently launched MedRX -XR Portal umbrella project,  a long-term programme that champions the creation of counter-narratives that reimagine our world and alter our understanding of global and local matters. It strives to bridge the gap between alternative artistic research and production by facilitating and developing labs, workshops, exchanges, lectures, exhibitions, and events. It is open to all artists, cultural practitioners, and creators from different disciplines interested in enriching their artistic practices by experimenting with cutting-edge technologies and reflecting on what possibilities emerge from this intersection. To know more: https://staging.medrar.org/projects/medrx/ 

Medrar for Contemporary Art acts as a springboard for an ever growing independent community of visual artists, filmmakers and multidisciplinary artists. Through its projects, it boosts experimentation at the intersection of visual arts, filmmaking and technology. By facilitating and cultivating non-traditional methods for experimentation, reflection, production and curation, it intends to disseminate artistic practices that go beyond academic methods and connect artists in the country and with their international peers with the aim to multiply formats of collaboration.

The CRITICAL MEDIA LAB (CML) is a community, a space and a platform for research and practice at the intersections of design, media, art and technology, situated in Basel (CH). We combine perspectives and methods of history, anthropology, sociology, media studies, cultural studies and political science.
https://criticalmedialab.ch/

Visual identity by Tasneem Tawheed