Recap Storyspace 2025
Ancestors
Creator: Steye Hallema
Producer: Shea Elmore
Concept Development: Steye Hallema, Shea Elmore
Productiecompany: The Smartphone Orchestra
Interface & Interaction Design: Frank Bosma, Wannes Salomé
Sound Design: Wannes Salomé, Nicholas Thayer
An immersive journey where you become part of the story. Take a selfie, form a big family with the other participants and travel six generations into the future.
Winner Golden Calf Best Digital Culture Production.
DRIFT
Creator: Nienke Huitenga Broeren, Hay Kranen, Lieven Heeremans, Minem Sezgin
Producer: Nienke Huitenga Broeren
Audioplay: Minem Sezgin
Production Company: Studio Zzzap, Vpro Medialab
Sound Design: Mark Ijzerman
Voice of Octopus: Shana Bossmann
Techno musc: Subject Sue
What will the Netherlands look like in 500 years? You can hear that in this generative open world podcast project. Written, acted and prompted by real people. With new stories generated every day – based on current climate data, to the rhythm of the tides and the moon.
Future Botanica
Creator: Marcel Van Brakel, Hazal Ertürkan
Producer: Marcel Van Brakel, Corine Meijers
Interface & Interaction Design: Luciano Pinna, Daan Hobbel, Marcel Van Brakel, Hazal Ertürkan, Hauke Boer, Ashley Haagsma, Petr Tiurin
Productie Company: Polymorf, Studio Biarritz
Sound Design: Mark Meeuwenoord
Research: Hazal Ertürkan, Sacha Holzken, Petr Tiurin
Sales & Partnerships: Marieke Nooren
Create the world of tomorrow yourself, with this AR artwork. Together with others and AI, generate new life and speculate about what new forms of nature might look like in the future.
THE IN.VISIBLE
Creator: BrotherTill
Interface & Interaction Design: Wieger Steenhuis
Text: Lisa Weeda
Sound Design: Mathijs van Til
Execution of the Pavilion: Jan-Willem Wind
Voice-Over (EN): Liza Bukina
Seeing is believing? What if we turn that around? This immersive and personal experience puts you face-to-face with the invisible world. Using a compelling voice-over and an interactive musical composition, you step from the outside world into your inner world.
Influenza
Creator: Tote Tiere Maarten
Producer: Evelyn Brancard
Sound Design: Tote Tiere Maarten
Production Company: Menetekel Film
There can be some strange birds among influencers on social media, but Influenza takes the crown. Through her Instagram account, this digital cormorant, brought back to life, gives tips and tricks on how to look human.
Lacuna
Creator: Maartje Wegdam, Nienke Huitenga Broeren
Producer: Corine Meijers, Ilja Kok
Script: Maartje Wegdam
Productie Company: Podium Biarritz, Copper Views Film Productions, Studio Biarritz
Music: Rik Nieuwdorp
Interface & Interaction Design: Harm van de Ven
Graphic Design: Frank Bosma, Matunda Groenendijk, Aron Fels
As a little girl, Sonja was rescued after being separated from her parents forever. But she can't remember any of it. Three long-lost napkin rings mark the beginning of a journey through the imagination. Wander with her in this personal VR documentary.
Nominated for a Golden Calf for Best Digital Culture Production.
Revival Roadshow
Creator: Anne Fehres, Luke Conroy
Producer: Anne Fehres, Luke Conroy
Cast: Zoë Harding, Ed Lesemann
Productie Company: Nullshima Studio
Sound Design & Music: Studio Zweerts
Technical Realisation: Alexis Polydorou, Luke Conroy
The 17th century explorer, Abel Tasman comes back to life in this VR experience. He goes in search of new land, now that the Netherlands has disappeared underwater. And you join him on this wondrous voyage of discovery.
Shelter
Creator: Sjors Swierstra, Ivanna Khitsinska
Producer: Justin Karten
Coproducer: Bram Crols
Camera: Artem Baburin
Productie Company: Scopic
Research: Zhanna Maksymenko-Dovgych, Olga Gibelinda
Edit: Eduardo Hernandez
How does the war in Ukraine feel, in everyday life? Shelter lets you witness moments of shared humanity, literally from the cradle to the grave.
waiting for cows
Creator: affect lab
Direction: Klasien Van De Zandschulp, Natalie Dixon
Producer: Siuli Ko (K.O. Productions)
Camera: Ruben Hamelink
Sound Design: Gerben Kokmeijer, Diego Van Uden Sound
Edit: Lianne Kotte
Creative Development: Madhu Srinivasa
You are not the only one collecting data with a smartwatch or a pedometer. Aergentina 4, Margot 104 and Robina 117 also have wearables. But these are Friesian dairy cows, whose biometric data determines the pace and content of the film being shown.
Nominated for a Golden Calf for Best Digital Culture Production.
The Fellows of 2024/2025
Their works were also featured in the Storyspace exhibition.
In Conversation with Victorine van Alphen
A.I. seems to be rapidly becoming one of the most overrated/underestimated/
discussed/exploited technologies. From utopia to dystopia and everything in between. One person who does not settle for ready-made opinions or juicy scenarios circulated by (social) media is artist and Golden Calf winner Victorine van Alphen. With her installation The Oracle: Ritual for the Future, Victorine explores what generative AI means for us.
In Conversation with Simone C Niquille
Simone C Niquille is a researcher and designer who joined the Fellowships Programme with her research project Chair Don’t Care. With Chair Don’t Care, Niquille investigates the boundaries of storytelling with and about machine learning. While the character Chair wanders through a seemingly simple environment, it turns out that navigation is no easy task. In fact, Chair Don’t Care is a study of computer vision, and how the computer’s gaze sees and influences our world.
In Conversation with Radical Data
For Radical Data, the artist and design collective of Jo Kroese and Rayen Mitrovich, this statement forms the starting point of their work. With their research entitled Applied Science Fiction, they are searching not just for ‘fixing tech’, but for ways to spark political imagination - building alternative futures, stories, and possibilities. It's a reaction to our collective difficulty imagining alternatives.