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.
VRDays https://vrdays.co/impulse-2022/
Silbersalz – International Science & Media Festival, 15.-19. September 2021, Halle, Germany
BFI London Film Festival, 6.-17. October 2021
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2022
Hacking Identity – Dancing Diversity, ZKM/Esch2022, Luxembourg
CPH:DOX Interactive 2022, Copenhagen
Xtended/Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
Beyond Reality, Bucheon Fantastic Film Festival, Bucheon, Korea
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