Recap Storyspace 2024
Anouschka
Creator: Tamara Shogaolu
Producer: Daisy Corbin O’Grady, Riyad Alnwili, Tamara Shogaolu
Production Company: Ado Ato Interactive, Ado Ato Pictures
Writers Tamara Shogaolu, Elinor Vanderburg, Sandy Bosmans
Sound Design: Selle Sellink
Music: Luigi Jansen, Selle Sellink, Elodie Chousmer-Howelles
Type: XR-experience
How can you know where you are going if you don't know where you came from? This animated mixed reality game takes you to the Bijlmermeer - the neighbourhood of black teenager Anouschka who goes in search of her roots.
Dans Dans Revolutie
Creator: Lisa Weeda, BrotherTill
Producer: Lisa Weeda, BrotherTill
Co-producer: Wintertuin
Production Company: Theater Bellevue
Distribution: Theater Bellevue
Type: Immersive installation
Can you experience war through TikTok dances on your phone? In this intimate, theatrical installation about watching and turning away from war, you certainly can.
Eigengrau Pavilion
Creator: Zalán Szakács
Concept Devlopment: Zalán Szakács
Producer: Zalán Szakács
Sound Design: Sébastien Robert
Production Company: Zalán Szakács
Type: Immersive installation
Open your senses to this immersive cinematic experience. In total darkness, you are welcomed into Eigengrau Pavilion, which transforms into a temporary sanctuary through light, mist, sound, smell and movement.
Emoticons Don’t Have Wrinkles
Creator: Luna Maurer
Concept Development: Luna Maurer, Roel Wouters
Producer: Luna Maurer
Sound Design: Philipp Johann Thimm
Production Company: Luna Maurer
Type: Performance
A performance that alternates between joy, self-affirmation and vulnerability, featuring a special camera helmet and Luna Maurer with her signature emoticon-makeup. A cocktail of digital tears and real emotions.
Winner Golden Calf for Best Digital Culture Production.
Floating with Spirits
Creator: Juanita Onzaga
Producer: Emmy Oost, An Oost, Corine Meijers, Donato Rotunno
Production Company: Cassette For Timescapes, Tarantula, Studio Biarritz
Sound Design: Olivier Lang
Camera: Juanita Onzaga, Pierre Friquet
Type: VR
In this magical virtual reality experience, two sisters prepare for the Day of the Dead in the mystical mountains of Mexico and transport you into the secret world of their ancestors.
Flow VR
Creator: Adriaan Lokman
Producer: Richard Valk
Distribution: Unframed Collection
Production Company: Valk Productions
Co-production Company: Lucid Realities
Sound Design: Adriaan Lokman, Come Jalibert, Samy Bardet, Erik Stok
Type: VR
Thanks to Virtual Reality, the invisible becomes visible. Immerse yourself in a world of air currents, smells, and heat and experience a spectacular night.
Reinforced Learning
Creator: Jeroen van Loon
Concept Development: Jeroen van Loon
Producer: Jeroen van Loon
Sound Design: Arno Peeters
Production Company: Studio Jeroen van Loon
Type: Video installation
Nothing more human than... the robot. In this video installation full of schadenfreude videos, the flesh-and-blood protagonists have been replaced by mechanical ones. Witty, but also food for thought.
SCHiM
Creator: Ewoud van der Werf, Nils Slijkerman
Producer: Ewoud van der Werf, Nils Slijkerman
Production Company: Extra Nice
Composer: Moonsailor
Type: Game
In a highly stylised (yet unmistakably Dutch) game world with a distinct colour palette, you will have to jump from shadow to shadow.
Shadowtime
Creator: Sister Sylvester, Deniz Tortum
Producer: Firat Sezgin, Ecegul Bayram
Visual Effects: Arjan van Meerten, Bats Bronsveld
Production Company: Institute of Time
Interaction & Interface Design: Sjoerd van Acker
Type: VR documentary
Explore what it is like to be in two worlds at once. Is this Virtual Reality experience an escape from real life? Or is it the perfect setting to learn how to be in two places at once?
Songs for a Passerby
Creator: Celine Daemen
Production Company: Silbersee
Co-Production Company: Studio Nergens, VIA ZUID, Muziekgebouw Productiehuis
VR Art Direction: Aron Fels
Composition music & sound: Asa Horvitz
Libretto: Olivier Herter
Sound & Mix: Wouter Snoei
Type: VR Opera
In this VR opera, you follow your own reflection through a musical dreamscape. This feels melancholic: do you pass by moments, or do moments pass by you?
The Fellows of 2023/2024
Their works were also featured in the Storyspace exhibition.
ARK
ARK consists of an international and interdisciplinary group of designers, artists, researchers and hackers. As a collective, they shape modern technologies from a holistic and progressive perspective, seeking to make technology open, inclusive and fair. During the Fellowship programme, ARK explored how they can collaborate as a non-hierarchical collective and which methods are suitable to achieve this. They took the Archive as their starting point. Inclusiveness and the value of polyphony were central in this. Not only in ARK itself, in their approach to the Archive, but also as a way to get a more complete picture of history and culture in general: how can we bring non-dominant stories to the forefront? How can we give space to other stories?
Špela Petrič
Intermedia artist Špela Petrič is concerned with how societal values shape technology and how the technology we use in turn produces what becomes "common sense". She brings together different disciplines and partners across academic, research and industry sectors to reflect their endeavors with the wider public. For the Fellowships programme, she explored advanced technologies that are developed to help make bodies better and healthier. But where exactly can we see the traces of AI's operation, how can we recognise its influence? To find the answer, she started in an unexpected place, where AI is already being used to improve bodies: in greenhouse tomato cultivation
Tina Farifteh
In her research for this fellowship titled ‘The Empathic Rage’, Tina Farifteh investigates the link between empathy and anger and asks whether a combination of these emotions/potentials can lead to action. In doing so, she examines triggers and progression of emotions over time. Do the emotions remain stable, or do they desensitise you over time? How can you strike an ethical balance between evoking anger and empathy without falling into manipulative populism? “Can I also capture people's tears, fists and screams? What do those emotions say about our times and what do they say about us as human beings and as creators?”.