Ilja Mirsky

Ilja Mirsky has been a dramaturg at the Residenztheater in Munich since the 2022/2023 season. From 2019 to 2022, he was a dramaturg and also occasionally a programmer at the Institute for Theatrical Future Research at the Zimmertheater in Tübingen. He is pursuing a doctorate on theater and digitality at the University of Tübingen and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and is an associate in the doctoral program ‘Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices’ at the Collegium Helveticum in Zurich. Mirsky studied cognitive sciences at the University of Tübingen, politics, literature, and psychology at the University of Haifa (Israel), and earned a Master’s degree in Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg. For his Master’s thesis, in which he examined choreography at the intersection of reality and VR, he was awarded the 2020 research prize by the Society for Dance Research. His international artistic work, including with the collective |M|osaik, is characterised by a focus on VR/AR, AI, and digitalisation.

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