Biografie
Chris Elvis Leisi arbeitet als Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Lehre der Fachrichtung Game Design und forscht im Immersive Arts Space im Bereich Co-Location Multiuser-Virtual-Reality-Erfahrungen. 2021 schloss er sein Master Studium in der Fachrichtung Game Design an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) ab. Auch unterrichtet er an der Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingaren im Fach Game Design gemeinsam mit Larissa Wild. Chris Elvis Leisi ist Mitgründer der Firma ArchLevel GmbH und arbeitet dort als VR-Spezialist und Game Designer.
Publikationen / Diskografie / Ausstellungen / Werke
Zeller, Ludwig; Leisi, Chris Elvis (2025): Modular Observers: OpenSoundLab and PatchWorld as Case Studies for Emerging Practices of Modular Synthesis in Extended Realities. Under review for Organized Sound, Volume 30, Issue 3 (New Strategies for Music Notation and Representation in Electroacoustic Music), Cambridge University Press.
Leisi, Chris Elvis; Götz, Ulrich (2024): Virtual Real Spaces: In-Home Gaming Experiences Bridging Reality and Virtuality. In Companion Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY Companion 24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 157–162. https://doi.org/10.1145/3665463.3678812 (open access).
Sormani, Philippe; Jain, Puneet; Larrieux, Eric; Leisi, Chris Elvis; Sahli, Oliver; Speziali, Stella; Salter, Christopher (2024): Probing XR: Data, Bodies, and Ethics in the Techno-Scientific Artistic Imaginary. Draft prepared for Relational Ethics in Technological Societies Workshop, ETH Zürich, May 30–31, 2024.
Bruggisser, Florian Christoph; Leisi, Chris Elvis; Lund-Jensen, Pascal; Fröhlich, Martin; Salter, Christopher Lloyd (2024): reconFIGURE: Confronting Audiences with Digital Doppelgängers. In Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech.), 7(4), Article No. 52, 10 pages. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3664208
Leisi, Chris; Kato, Hiloko; Sahli, Oliver (2024): Pass and Play in Mixed Reality: Unconventional use of a MR headset as a shareable display. In Abstract Proceedings of DiGRA 2024 Conference: Playgrounds. DiGRA, Tampere. https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/2327
Leisi, Chris Elvis (2023): Immersion mechanics of co-presence Mixed Reality. Guest lecture at Summer School Storytelling in VR, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Antwerp, August 2023.
Leisi, Chris Elvis (2023): Virtual Real Rooms: Game Mechanics of Co-Presence MR in a Full Home Environment.Presentation at Relationality in VR – Interdisciplinary Workshop on Aesthetic Research in Virtual Reality, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Emmenbrücke, Switzerland, March 22, 2023.
Kato, Hiloko; Kesselheim, Wolfgang; Leisi, Chris Elvis (2022): Spacecraft Interactions in Your Flat: The Embodied Construction of Interactional Space and Joint Attention in Virtual Environments. Presentation at AILA 2022 – 20th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Lyon, France, July 2022.
Leisi, Chris Elvis (2021): Immersion and Storytelling in Co-Location Multiuser MR. Guest lecture at Summer School Storytelling in VR, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Antwerp, August 2021.
Leisi, Chris Elvis; Sahli, Oliver (2020). Co-Experiencing Virtual Spaces: A Standalone Multiuser Virtual Reality Framework. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4399217
Ausstellungen und Festivals
- ReconFIGURE, IASpace, Isea 2025, Seoul KOR, September 2025.
- Kamituga | Digital Gold, Futurium, Berlin DE, 2024-2028.
- Doppelgaenger:apparatus, IASpace, Mesh festival, Basel, Oktober 2024.
- ReconFIGURE, IASpace, Kikk Festival, Namur BEL, Oktober 2024.
- ReconFIGURE, IASpace, Digital Arts Zurich (DA-Z), Zürich, October 2024.
- Doppelgaenger:apparatus, IASpace, Fantoch, Baden, September 2024.
- ReconFIGURE, IASpace, MEET | Digital Culture Center, Milan ITA, März - Juni 2024.
- Doppelgaenger:apparatus, IASpace, Zurich Arts Weekend, Zürich, Juni 2024.
- ReconFIGURE, IASpace, Grand Palais Immersif, Paris FRA, Mai 2024.
- ReconFIGURE, IASpace, Teatros del Canal, Madrid ESP, May 2024.
- ReconFIGURE, IASpace, Ars Electronica, Linz AUT, September 2023.
- ReconFIGURE, IASpace, Zurich Art Weekend, Zürich, June 2023.
- Kamituga | Digital Gold, Prague Quadrennial, Prag, Juni 2023.
- Kamituga | Digital Gold, Zurich Meets Berlin, Berlin DE, November 2022.
- Spacecraft - A new way Home, IASpace, Fantoche, Baden, September 2022.
- Kamituga | Digital Gold, Ausstellung Planet Digital, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Januar - Juni 2021.
- Spacecraft - A new way Home, IASpace, REFRESH 4, Zürich, November 2021.
- Zuendler - Macbeth im 21. Jahrhundert in VR, Auswahl 19, Aargauer Kunsthaus, November 2019 – Januar 2020.