N.G
Research

Research & publications.

Peer-reviewed work at the intersection of the performing arts and real-time technology — written as Assistant Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and PhD candidate in Fine Arts at Université Paris 8.

Research Interests

Expanded AnimationDigital Theater & Immersive TechnologiesVirtual StagesVirtual Reality & the Metaverse

Publications

Selected
publications

  • 2026

    The Adaptation Threshold in Mixed Reality Theater: Cognitive Integration and Narrative Reality

    Gallist, N., Gochfeld, D. & Brunmayr, L.

    Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 9(3), 1–10

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  • 2025

    Guiding Attention in a Virtual Reality Theater: A Case Study of the Virtual Reality Performance Symmetry

    Gallist, N., Hagler, J. & Lankes, M.

    Proceedings of CAGA24 — The Conference of AG Animation 2024

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  • 2025

    The Theater Machine: An Interactive Generative-AI-Based Installation for Participatory Cultural Mediation

    Gallist, N., Abasolo, J., Pham, C. & Hagler, J.

    SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Posters, 1–3

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  • 2024

    Stage & Play: Using Game Technologies in the Context of Digitally-mediated Theater Performances

    Gallist, N., Lattner, M., Lankes, M. & Hagler, J.

    Companion Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY), 85–90

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  • 2023

    Tourism in the Metaverse: Digital Twin of a City in the Alps

    Gallist, N. & Hagler, J.

    Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM), 568–570

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  • 2022

    Build Your World — Meaningful Choices in a Hybrid Stage Play

    Gallist, N., Lattner, M., Lankes, M. & Hagler, J.

    International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS), Springer, 697–704

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  • 2022

    Behind the Curtains: Comparing Mozilla Hubs with Microsoft Teams in a Guided Virtual Theatre Experience

    Hagler, J., Lankes, M. & Gallist, N.

    IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 19–22

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Highlights

Research
& practice

2021 — 2024

Play-On!

Part of the Creative Europe funded project Play-On! — New Storytelling with Immersive Technologies, exploring how immersive media reshape narration on stage.

2022

Der Faust Preis Nomination

Pan's Lab by minus.Eins was nominated for the renowned Der Faust Preis 2022 in the category Genrespringer.

Since 2020

Ars Electronica Festival

3D Metaverse Artist for the Ars Electronica Festival — building the festival's virtual venues and meeting spaces since "In Kepler's Gardens" 2020.

2021

Berliner Festspiele

Metaverse Artist for the Theatertreffen at the Berliner Festspiele 2021.

Curious about
the research?

nils@gallist.at