Annual Newsletter for 2025
As 2026 begins, I’m taking a moment to reflect on a rich and rewarding 2025 for Ginslov Media Studio — a year shaped by research, collaboration, creative experimentation, and international exchange.
Research & development of Deep Focus in VR NOW FLOWVR
🔹Continued research and development of Deep Focus in VR, now FLOWVR, explored through workshops, creative sprints, conferences, and academic contexts:
✨A multiplayer VR co-creation Testa FLOWVR workshop for young people at Rödebyskolan in Rödeby, Sweden. A collaboration with Mission Youth, Karlskrona Municipality, Region Blekinge, Save the Children, and RF SISU
✨Participation and presentations supported by Hyper Island, T.A.B. (Tech, Art & Business), Blue Science Park in Karlskrona and a Creative Sprint in Berlin
18-20 November: Three Day Creative Sprint in Berlin Selected, attended and presented FLOWVR for the T.A.B. (Tech Art and Business) and Hyper Island Three Day Creative Sprint
16 October Started a research project with BTH - Blekinge Institute of Technology, to explore Deep Focus in VR using a variety of different biosensors to explore collaborative and co-creative drawing in VR
29-31 July: Keynote and interview: The art of the future at the Archipelago Festival in Karlskrona Sweden. An event supported by: Blue Science Park, TAB and Hyper Island.
12-13 June: Presented Deep Focus in VR at the 2nd International Conference VR in Mental Health - Into the Real in Helsingborg
22 May: Online presentation for the Artistic Residency at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, BTH, in Karlskrona, Sweden.
✨MINC Business Sprint Programme 22 Jan-31 March
✨Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) – research project
Conferences
24-27 Sept: Keynote Through the Body, Beyond the Screen: drawing us together in MR encounters. At the ANTS Conference Vilnius Lithuania
Keynote: "Mixing Realities: sustainability issues vs sustainable arts practice?” for the Scientific-Environmental Conference: In Search of Balance. Best Practices and Sustainable Development in Dance and Other Performing Arts. Warsaw, Mazovian Institute of Culture,
12-13 June: Presented Deep Focus in VR at the 2nd International Conference VR in Mental Health - Into the Real in Helsingborg https://www.vrinmentalhealth.com/
Videos: https://youtu.be/b4L9yG76piI?si=arKUOcbmNOgJwbwz
08-11 February: Keynote "Mixing Realities: sustainability issues vs sustainable arts practice?” for the Scientific-Environmental Conference: In Search of Balance. Best Practices and Sustainable Development in Dance and Other Performing Arts. Warsaw, Mazovian Institute of Culture,
Publications
September: Peer reviewed article published online at ISDJ - The International Screendance Journal. Title: Screendance Africa (Pty) Ltd: African Screendance made by Africans https://screendancejournal.org/issue/363/info/
September: "Mixing Realities: sustainability issues vs sustainable arts practice?” for the Scientific-Environmental Conference: In Search of Balance. Best Practices and Sustainable Development in Dance and Other Performing Arts. Warsaw, Mazovian Institute of Culture, Published in Polish by the Social Sciences and Humanities Press of Adam Mickiewicz University. ISBN:978-83-66983-63-2 book form.
Video Creation
Screendance work: Currently in edit.Innsæ/the sea within, Shot 24 May in Varberg in Performers and filmmakers: Ami Skånberg, Jeannette Ginslov and Omari Carter. My edit Urban Sirens will become part of a trilogy of 3-minute films.
November: Limhamn Pilates Header Video – shot and edited a 30 sec header video for their website: https://www.limhamnpilates.se/
May: Marika Hedemyr Productions – Av jord är du kommen / Ashes to Ashes
Trailers in Swedish with English Subtitles: https://vimeo.com/1086368994
Trailer with English subtitles https://vimeo.com/1087487716
Dance Workshop
05 October: Somatic Dance Flow: Drawing Meditation Dance Workshop
Teaching
Pilates and Adult Ballet Classes once a week at Limhamn Pilates
Pilates Classes at Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan Malmö once a week