Victorine van Alphen
Social
Futurological
Trans-media
Experimental
Research-based
Collaborative
Speculative
Philosopher
Filmmaker
Consultant
Designer
Curator
Innovator
Art-director
Paneltalk Fusion of VR and Theater Performance @Kaohsiung FilmFestival
With no less then Blake Kammerdiener (Filmprogrammer SXSW), Chou Tung-Yen (Director In the mist), Christopher Lane Davis (Artist Gumbal Dreams) and myself. It was an extraordinary open panel talk where we mostly discussed the human relations and intimacy that live performance either inside or outside VR create. As well as the future of VR, XR and possibilities for the exploration of identity and new social norms and ... – Read more.
IVFX @Kaohsiung Film Festival
From 13-30 October IVFX was exhibited in Taiwan at the futuristic Kaohsiung Filmfestival at the Pier-2 Art Center. It became a huge success and spread on local (social) media, was shared by influencers, but most importantly: lead to many feelings and discussions, and surprised the actor with all the intimate reproduction stories that people opened up during and after breeding their cyborgs. ... – Read more.
‘IVF-X: Posthuman Parenting in Hybrid Reality’ nominated for innovation award Filmfest Bremen.
IVF-X will show at Kunsthalle Bremen 20-25 April 2022, and is nominated for all the innovation categories: Narrative innovation, visual innovation, and technological innovation. The awards will take place 25th of April. IVF-X is an awarded continuously mutating transmedia experience inviting *couples or singles to 'breed' digitally in a posthuman clinic using A.I. & Procedural Visual Simulation to grow cyborgs. *LGTBQ+ Proof. In the future, what will it mean for humans to breed if it is not so much a biological matter but ... – Read more.
Composing modes of perceiving: Masterclass by Victorine Van Alphen on the artistic use of 14 experiential dimensions @ Errant Sound Berlin
Composing modes of perceiving Through the use of 14 experiential dimensions. Masterclass at ERRANT SOUND, BERLIN 18 December 2021 By looking at fourteen modes of experience, of which ‘hearing’ is one, Victorine van Alphen will look into shaping different states of perception. By viewing each mode of experience as an instrument within a sensorial orchestra, Victorine explores how complex experiences can be composed and can significantly influence the overall experience of an exhibited art work. Three key ... – Read more.
Artificial Intimacy Lecture performance @ MACA (Moving Arts Centre Amsterdam)
‘The Artificial Intimacy Quiz’ invites you into the position of creator. You are confronted with radical decisions and human subtleties distilled from 'IVF-X: Posthuman parenting in hybrid reality', a futuristic cyborg clinic. Van Alphen questions our intimate relationship to the digital realm - and thus our own physicality - experientially. Through the cyborg clinic she has witnessed over 100 ‘couples' and singles eager to breed and meet their own cyborg babies, while navigating intimate reproduction desires & ... – Read more.
16-31 of October 2021: IVF-X as part of IMAGINE FILM FESTIVAL @LAB111, Amsterdam
Breed & Meet your own cyborg baby now in this Golden Calf awarded futuristic installation. An immersive audiovisual experience speculating on the future of human reproduction. (Last chance to see IVF-X in The Netherlands:) Reserve your 20 minute time slot here. "a third space beyond the ever-present binary thinking" wrote the Netherlands film festival jury - who nominated IVF-X for a golden calf and unfolded the urgency: "IVF‑X does what good sci-fi can do. It becomes a mirror for our existing world, in this case ... – Read more.
