Keynote at LIFT Helsinki, 24th of October, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki

Captured – Storytelling with digital doubles

Currently many apps allow people to create a virtual likeness from themselves for fun social media purposes, but can digital double became an agent in a narrative simulation? Captured explores digital doubles as actors in a collective scenario depicting social injustice.

Captured is an immersive experience, which captures your face and creates a new identity for you in a collective scenario taking place in virtual world. Captured enables people to step into virtual world as a digital double, making them actors and spectators in the same time. The doubles participate in a simulation depicting an unsettling cyclical performance of social humiliation, each taking different roles in the so-called bullying triangle, consisting the bully, the target or the bystander.

YLE Beta Day – 7th of May, G-livelab, Helsinki 8.30 AM – noon
Together with Amanda Solosky (Rival Theory) and Silja Martikainen (Cognitive brain research, Helsinki University)

The Volumetric Society will be presenting two pioneering artists, Hanna Haaslahti – presenting “Captured”, and Kathleen McDermott, presenting “Absurdist Electronics: The Disruptive Power of Slapstick in Wearable Tech and Consumer Robotic Design”

Wed, March 20th, 6.30 PM

Captured – narrative simulation with AI controlled doubles. Presentation together with Marko Tandefelt at EEVR #21 Community meeting hosted by MEDIT – TLU Center of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture, Tallin, Estonia. Dec 15, 1 pm.