New production, Ancestors has started taking shape this autumn – we are generating visual simulations of future human generations from audience members. Ancestors is continuation for Captured (2021), diving deeper in the narrative potential of digital doubles.
Presented at VRDays, IFFR and IDFA
Silbersalz – International Science & Media Festival, 2021, Halle, Germany
BFI London Film Festival, 2021
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2022
Hacking Identity – Dancing Diversity, ZKM/Esch2022, Luxembourg
CPH:DOX Interactive 2022, Copenhagen
Xtended/Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
Beyond Reality, BIFAN 2022, Bucheon
FILE Sao Paolo 2023, Interactive Singularities
NOVA Bienal de Arte e Tecnologia 2023, Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro
STRP 2024, Eindhoven
Ancestors, a new immersive project co-created together with Steye Hallema, combines face capturing with GAN networks. We are very happy to be part of Sundance New Frontier Story Lab line-up this year. Ancestors generates an imaginary family tree synthesized from the faces of the audience, narrating a speculative fiction about the future of human kinship and reproduction.
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.
Captured at the 6th Venice Gap-Financing Market, August 29th-3rd of September
NewImages XR Financing Market, 20th of June, Paris
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