Nathalie Bonin is a Canadian violinist and composer whose work spans film, television, stage and immersive experience. Her practice combines the expressive range of the violin with the scale and dramatic language of cinematic music. Her credits include Bridgerton and productions for Netflix, Apple TV and the BBC. She also contributed to the GRAMMY®-winning project […]
Ondrej Kamensky is a member of the production team at the Brno Observatory and Planetarium in the Czech Republic. An astrophysicist by training, he joined the planetarium as a presenter in 2013 and subsequently moved into programme coordination and fulldome production, with a particular focus on SkyExplorer scripting. Since 2017, he has also served as […]
Holger Prang is a sound artist and media-technology entrepreneur working with generative audio, spatial sound and live electronic music. Trained as a media-technology engineer, he previously worked as a researcher and data scientist at the Chora Conscious City Lab at Technische Universität Berlin and the CityScienceLab at HafenCity University Hamburg. His research into urban data […]
Gabriela Bila is a Brazilian architect, artist and researcher with the City Science group at the MIT Media Lab. Her work explores how immersive media can contribute to locally grounded visions of urban futures. Working at the intersection of art, technology and urbanism, she combines XR, film and participatory workshops to co-create future narratives with […]
Valentine Auphan is a doctoral researcher in Arts Studies and Practices at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she has been developing a research-creation project in collaboration with the Montréal Planetarium since 2023. Her methodology, Météart: An Artistic Approach to Meteorite Data, brings artists, scientists and “spect(actors)” together to explore how scientific knowledge can […]
Prof. Ralph Heinsohn is Professor of Audiovisual Media and Academic Director of the Media Centre at Aalen University. As Creative Director of the Science Dome and Head of Media Production, he contributed to the development of experimenta Heilbronn, Germany’s largest science centre. He has worked as a designer and producer of award-winning fulldome shows and […]
Mourad Bennacer is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and curator specialising in immersive media, spatial audio and digital archiving. Working under the alias [indistinct voices over PA], he explores technological obsolescence, data degradation and the transience of memory through his North African heritage and experimental turntablism. His practice asks what is lost, preserved and transformed as […]
Kate Wellham is a UK-based fulldome consultant and producer working across artistic development, live performance and sector strategy. As part of the immersive-film organisation Live Cinema UK, she has led fulldome laboratories for artists and produced live performances created specifically for the dome. She also authored Fulldome in the UK, a report advising funders on […]
The ways in which we form an image of the world have always been profoundly influenced by the media available in a given historical period. This applies equally to artistic and cultural approaches to understanding our world and to scientific modes of inquiry. For most of recorded history, scientific and aesthetic methods were regarded as […]
Sphericon was officially announced at the annual conference of the German-Speaking Planetarium Society (GdP) in Kiel in late April 2026, by Tobias Wiethoff, Head of Production & Technology at the Bochum Planetarium as part of a talk that introduces the intellectual background of SpherIcon.one and its guiding theme, “The True and the Beautiful.” The full […]
