L.E.V. Festival hosts an XR Camp at L.E.V. Matadero in Madrid, bringing together artists, cultural practitioners, creators and communities to explore how we inhabit, create and connect through Extended Reality.

L.E.V. Matadero, 16–18 September 2026

As part of RiT 2, L.E.V. Festival (ES) invites artists with experience in VR development to create a virtual world for VRChat, exploring virtual environments as spaces for artistic experimentation and discovery.

Apply before October 23rd, 2026.

As part of RiT 2 – Unwritten Worlds, MEET (IT) invite artists and designers to co-create a shared artwork during a residency exploring telepresence and the shifting nature of presence in the digital age.

This call was closed on June 29, 2026.

In the age of agentic AI, Extended Reality shifts from a space of immersion into a system of extraction. As part of RiT 2 – Unwritten Worlds, V2_ (NL) invite artists and designers to co-create a shared artwork during a residency that explores the hidden loop between human labour and machine world-building.

This call was closed on April 12, 2026.

RiT has successfully organised a series of XR camps aimed at fostering a vibrant and inclusive XR community across Europe. These camps have served as platforms for artistic exploration, knowledge sharing, and collaborative learning, engaging a diverse range of participants and addressing critical topics within the realm of XR technologies.
Here’s a detailed look at the camps organised as part of the project.

At the past online event BETACAMP, L.E.V. Festival in collaboration with the catalonian artist Carlos Martorell aka. Shoeg, created We Are The AI (RE)Synthesizers a light virtual world hosted for the web browser using A-frame and as a multiplayer VR world using the Overte software.

The growth of XR (Extended Reality) scenarios (Augmented & Virtual Realities, Metaverse…), raises serious social and cultural issues. The Realities in Transition project aims at addressing these by thinking and promoting a common, open and sustainable XR, at a European level.
To do so, the activation of an active, thinking Creative and Activist European XR community is needed.

XR technology, as the latest instantiation of our escape into the virtual, has now reached a point from which we are no longer bound to our physical bodies, substituting conscious experience of our physical environments for experimentally controlled, simulated, and multisensorial contexts.

In an online streaming event, Eric and Isjtar presented CREWs work past and future in the form of a lecture performance. Participants were guided through the CREW studio.

More and more, artists from dance, theatre, circus, etc. are taking advantage of digital technologies to explore new connections between real and virtual worlds and to reinvent the relationship with the audience. Thus, the hybridisation, virtualisation and augmentation of live performance are redefining the boundaries of the stage space. This workshop focused on the development of new uses of immersive and interactive technologies adapted to the performing arts, which enhance the audience’s experience.

Have you ever heard of a Dreamachine? In this workshop, tested, tried, discovered and experimented with creating new worlds and dimensions using various sensory deprivation and sensory overload techniques. Together explored how to hack your senses using the most straightforward methods possible.

Virtual Reality is not just a novelty, but a maturing, emergent medium that challenges us with new ways of making music and art. The Patchathon was a chance for artists to work expressively right on that bleeding edge. It has set artists loose on in-development environment with the musical tools necessary to realize the full gamut of their imaginative possibilities.