NAIA
Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art Association
Last Friday at SensUs Immersive Studio – Karlsruhe: XR Private Views
A light, salon-style open studio evening with XR, AR, light-sensing artworks, and conversation — no presentations, just experience.
30.01.2026, 17:00–20:00
Last Friday Series at SensUs Immersive Studio – Karlsruhe
XR private views | free booking
RSVP: rasa@rixc.org
or book a studio visit via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/letzten-freitag-im-last-friday-at-sensus-immersive-studio-xr-showcases-tickets-1981575219825
Light Resonances II
Last Friday Series
at SensUs Immersive Studio – Karlsruhe | XR Private Views
This Friday, 30.01.2026, 17:00–20:00, SensUs Immersive Studio in Karlsruhe opens for a Last Friday Showcase — a light open-studio visit and private-view evening, more like an artist salon than an event.
The evening grows out of previous months’ SensUs app showcases and focuses this time on light sensing in plants and its translation into immersive experiences.
The studio will be open to experience recent AR works on the SensUs Art platform, including Light Resonances (AR), featured last month, alongside immersive light-sensing explorations such as Solarceptors (VR), an outcome of the Plants Intelligence (SNSF) research, and related works.
The evening continues to explore light through immersion — in plants, environments, and XR. There are no presentations; instead, the studio is an open situation for experiencing the works and engaging in dialogue, only if you wish. For those who feel like going deeper, we’ll be happy to share more about their research, data, scientific collaborations, and immersive technologies.
Time to look, experience, get together, and talk about light, natural and artificial intelligences, plant worlds, immersive climate imaginaries, and life.
📍 SensUs Immersive Studio, Lessingstr. 25, 76135 Karlsruhe (8 min walk from ZKM)
🗓 Friday, January 30, 2026 | 5–8 pm CET
🎟 Free booking | limited private visits (via Eventbrite or RSVP rasa@rixc.org) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/letzten-freitag-im-last-friday-at-sensus-immersive-studio-xr-showcases-tickets-1981575219825
🥂 Apéro served by hosting artist
Welcome to the first Last Friday of 2026!
Especially for those not in Berlin for transmediale, passing by Free Fridays at ZKM, or already warming up for Karlsruhe Art Fair next week.
Hosts: Rasa Smite (onsite), Raitis Smits (online)
In collaboration with: Christina Vinke, Daria Mille, Daina Silina / NAIA
In partnership with: NAIA – Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art Association, Karlsruhe
http://naia.center
SensUs Art platform: co-produced with RIXC Center for New Media Culture, Riga
http://sensusart.rixc.org (download the app)
Credits: Solarcepters (VR, 2025) by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits is an outcome of Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant (2022–2025), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) research project led by Yvonne Volkart, and hosted by the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW.
http://plants-intelligence.ch
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Light Resonances II
Last Friday Series
at SensUs Immersive Studio – Karlsruhe | XR Private Views
Diesen Freitag, 30.01.2026, 17:00–20:00 Uhr, öffnet das SensUs Immersive Studio in Karlsruhe für den Last Friday Showcase— ein leichter Open-Studio-Besuch und Private-View-Abend, mehr Künstlersalon als Event.
Das Studio ist geöffnet, um aktuelle AR-Arbeiten auf der SensUs Art Plattform zu erleben (eine Koproduktion von NAIA & RIXC) sowie immersive Light-Sensing-Arbeiten im XR — darunter AI Herbarium(neu), Light Resonances (AR) und Solarceptors (VR).
Künstlerin und Forscherin Rasa Smite begleitet die Besucher:innen durch die Arbeiten. Wer tiefer einsteigen möchte, ist eingeladen, mehr über die künstlerische Forschung, Datenanalysen, immersive Technologien (wie sie auch in der Wissenschaft genutzt werden) sowie über die Zusammenarbeit mit Raitis Smits (online zugeschaltet), anderen Künstler:innen und Forscher:innen zu erfahren.
Es gibt keine Präsentationen, kein Programm, keinen Druck — nur Gespräche, wenn man möchte. Zeit zum Schauen, Erleben, Zusammensein und Austauschen über Kunst, Wissenschaft, Daten, Klima, Pflanzen, Ökologie, natürliche und künstliche Intelligenzen, Licht, das elektromagnetische Spektrum, immersive Technologien und Leben.
📍 SensUs Immersive Studio, Lessingstr. 25, 76135 Karlsruhe (8 Minuten zu Fuß vom ZKM)
🗓 Freitag, 30. Januar 2026 | 17:00–20:00 Uhr
🎟 Kostenlose Buchung | begrenzte private Zeitfenster (über Eventbrite oder rasa@rixc.org)
🥂 Apéro wird von den Künstler:innen serviert
Willkommen zum ersten Last Friday 2026🌿
Besonders für alle, die nicht bei der transmediale in Berlin sind, bei den Free Fridays am ZKM vorbeikommen oder sich schon auf die Karlsruhe Art Fair nächste Woche einstimmen möchten.
In Partnerschaft mit:
NAIA – Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art Association, Karlsruhe
http://naia.center
SensUs Art Plattform:
Koproduziert mit dem RIXC Center for New Media Culture, Riga
http://sensusart.rixc.org (App herunterladen)
Eventbrite / Vorschautext
Ein gemütlicher Open-Studio-Abend mit XR, AR, Light-Sensing-Kunstwerken und Gesprächen — keine Präsentationen, nur Erfahrung.
Private Studioansicht mit kostenloser Buchung. STUDIOBESUCH BUCHEN
30.01.2026, 17:00–20:00
Last Friday Series im SensUs Immersive Studio – Karlsruhe
XR Private Views | kostenfreie Anmeldung
RSVP: rasa@rixc.org
oder Studio-Besuch über Eventbrite buchen:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/letzten-freitag-im-last-friday-at-sensus-immersive-studio-xr-showcases-tickets-1981575219825
1) Private WhatsApp / personal invitation
Hi!
This Friday we open SensUs Immersive Studio for the very first Last Friday in 2026! It will be a light open studio / private view, more like a small salon than an event, with showcases around the works on SensUs app (where your work is also present). I’ll also be there to accompany visitors through works by me & Raitis Smits (joining online) – AI Herbarium (new), Light Resonances AR, Solarceptors VR. This time no presentations — just experience, time to talk, and exchange.
Friday, 26.01.2026 | 17:00–20:00 | Lessingstraße 25, Karlsruhe | Apéro served.
If you’re not in Berlin for Transmediale or passing by ZKM Free Fridays, you’re very welcome.
Warmly,
Rasa
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Hi Isabella
This Friday we open SensUs Studio — a light open studio / private view around the SensUs app (incl. your work), and I’ll also show XR / AR works by me & Raitis Smits, this time a light-version – no presentations, just getting together.
🕔 17:00–20:00 | Karlsruhe
🥂 Apéro
Rasa
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Hi Isabella 🌿
This Friday: Last Friday at SensUs Studio — open studio, private view, more salon than event, showcase around the SensUs app (including your work), plus XR / AR works by me & Raitis Smits, no presentations — just experience + conversation.
🕔 17:00–20:00 | Karlsruhe (8 min from ZKM)
🥂 Apéro
Hope you can join!
Rasa
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LIGHT SENSING — Last Friday
SensUs Immersive Studio, Karlsruhe
Open studio / private view.
XR & AR works. Conversation instead of program.
Fri, Jan 30 · 17–20
Link in bio
NAIA × RIXC
Deutsch — ultra-minimal
LIGHT SENSING — Last Friday
SensUs Immersive Studio, Karlsruhe
Offenes Studio / Private View.
XR & AR Arbeiten. Gespräch statt Programm.
Fr, 30.01. · 17–20 Uhr
Link in Bio
NAIA × RIXC