Cybel’Art Journal — technology with people at its heart
Behind every experience are artists, works, places and people. The Cybel’Art Journal explores the encounters and ideas that give innovation its purpose: augmented presence, immersive concerts, publishing, cultural heritage and new ways to connect the physical and digital worlds.
Discover articles by Pierluigi Christophe Orunesu, editorially adapted from his Substack for the Cybel’Art website, alongside our press coverage. Each article retains its original publication date and links to its source. Our stories distinguish documented achievements from ideas and features still in development.
Beethoven at Lausanne Cathedral: An Immersive Legacy
For Lausanne Cathedral’s 750th anniversary, Cybel’Art documented a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth in a lighting design by Renato Häusler, extending the memory of a live event through an immersive approach developed with the OSR and Virtual Hall®.
Protecting Art’s Soul with the .icolo Ecosystem
As digital representations travel and change at speed, Cybel’Art presents the .icolo ecosystem as a vision for framing volumetric presence, use rights and exchanges around immersive works with greater care.
John Howe: Where Fantasy Meets Augmented Reality
At La Tour du Fantastique in Neuchâtel, a collaboration presented in 2026 explores how volumetric capture and augmented reality can support an encounter with John Howe’s world.
When Technology Restores Access to Culture
In 2026, Virtual Hall® invited Swiss care-home residents to experience the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande alongside its musicians, without presenting immersion as a replacement for live performance.
Can Virtual Be Genuine? Verbier Festival TALKS 2025
In an era of synthetic media, Verbier Festival TALKS 2025 asks what makes a digital presence credible. Cybel’Art presents icologram® and Virtual Hall® as approaches rooted in capturing an actual performance rather than simulating one.
The Symphony Hall Without Walls
Virtual Hall® invites audiences to encounter the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande from within the orchestra’s space. The project brings together volumetric capture, spatial audio and phygital mediation while keeping its operational experience distinct from the broader .icolo vision.