CPH:DOX INTER:ACTIVE 2019
Following last year’s big success, the exhibition INTER:ACTIVE will once again take place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg at CPH:DOX. The exhibition will include some of the best interactive and immersive installations and VR films out there.
The exhibition will run through the whole festival March 20–31 2019.
INTER:ACTIVE is presented in collaboration with HTC VIVE, B&O, World of VR, Showtime VR, Acute Art and Plant København. With support from the Danish Arts Foundation and the Lundbeck Foundation.
Festival web site: https://cphdox.dk/en
INTER:ACTIVE PROGRAM:
Spheres
Eliza McNitt, 15+ 13+ 15 min
United States, France, 2018
Space is not silent. In fact it is full of sound. For thousands of years weve looked to the stars to find our place in the Universe, but for the first time we listen to its music. Spheres is a three-chapter journey to uncover the hidden songs of the cosmos.
The Master’s Vision
Harmke Heezen, Mike Robbins & Chloé Jarry, 11 + 6 + 8 min
Germany, 2019
Step into three of the world’s most famous paintings, and hear the unknown stories of the artists. Edvard Munch’s ‘The Sun’, Caspar David Friedrich’s ‘Monk by the Sea’ and Claude Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’.
Leviathan
Shezad Dawood, 10 min
United Kingdom, 2019
Leviathan comprises paintings, sculptures and VR to examine migration, marine welfare and mental health.
Das Totale Tanz Theater
Interactive Media Foundation, 12 min
Germany, 2019
An immersive experience, which combines different art forms with brand new digital technology.
Re-Animated
Jakob Kudsk Steensen, 15 min
Denmark, United States, 2018
RE-ANIMATED is a VR artwork that brings back to life the KauiOo bird, which went extinct in 1987.
Songbird
Lucy Greenwell, Uri Kranot, Michelle Kranot, 10 min
United Kingdom, Denmark, 2018
‘Songbird’ is an animated adventure with a dark heart. You are taken to the island of Kaua’i in Hawaii in 1984 and into a hand-painted replica of an enchanting rainforest, in search of the last known specimen of the songbird õ’õ. A fabled black bird with yellow legs and a unique voice, whose last living specimen disappeared from the island 30 years ago. The aural universe if just as important as the 360-degree images, and is created by the 3D sound specialist Henrik Oppermann, based on field recordings from Kaua’i and sonic fossils.
Awavena
Lynette Wallworth, 17 + 6 min
United States, Brazil, Australia, 2018
Full two-part version. Lynette Wallworth, who in 2017 won an Emmy for her 360-degree film ‘Collisions’, is back with an eye-opening VR documentary in two parts about the first female shaman from the Amazonian Yawanawa people.
Glitch
Johan Bjørn Leth, 20 min
Denmark, 2019
Glitch is an interactive experience, that raises questions about the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence. During the entire festival, you can use your own smartphone to go on an exploration throughout Kunsthal Charlottenborg and discover different ‘glitches’. Find out how at the entrance.
Hand in Hand
Yuval Orr, 8 min
France, Germany, 2019
What will our lives look like the day society becomes fully automated? Using augmented reality, the docu-fiction ‘Hand in Hand’ sends you to a near future, where robots and artificial intelligence have taken over everyone’s jobs, while you receive a basic income.
VR:Art 360 Program:
Summation of Force
Narelle Autio, Matthew Bate, Trent Parke, 14 min
Australia, 2018
Two brothers are playing a mythical game of cricket one moonlit night, which develops into a fascinating study of movements, psychology and elite sports physics.
Life. Boat. House.
Peter Collis, 7 min
United Kingdom, 2018
Outside / inside a disused Lifeboat house, players and spectators populate a series of simultaneous spaces. This is a VR experience, an experimental sound/image collage and a challenge thrown back to the viewer: What is our relationship to what we are seeing & hearing?
Aquaphobia
Jakob Kudsk Steensen, 4 min
USA, Denmark, 2017
Aquaphobia, which means fear of water, is a climate dystopian tale of a future where we are all in deep water.
Das Totale Tanz Theater 360
Maya Puig, 6 min
Germany, 2019
A 360' immersive experience to the sound of Einstürzende Neubauten.
VR:Vision 360 Program:
The Leap — Inside Architect Dorte Mandrup’s Mind
Ane Skak, Niels Bjørn, 20 min
Denmark, 2019
Experience the star architect Dorte Mandrup’s artistic process during the creation of the iconic Wadden Sea Centre by the west coast of Jutland, and the Ice Fjord Centre in Ilulissat in Greenland.
Isle of the dead
Benjamin Nuel, 8 min
France, 2018
Isle of the Dead is a timeless journey, starting from an everyday apartment towards our final destination, guided by Charon, ferryman of the Underworld.
VR:Fiction 360 Program:
Borderline
Assaf Machnes, 9 min
Israel, Great Britain, 2018
A VR short following a confusing encounter on the Israeli-Egyptian border. Based on true events.
4 Feet: Blind Date
María Belén Poncio, Rosario Perazolo Masjoan, Damián Turkieh, Ezequiel Lenardón, 18 min
Argentina, 2018
Juana, an 18 year-old girl bound to a wheelchair, is anxious to explore her sexuality.
Merger
Keiichi Matsuda, 4 min
United Kingdom, 2018
In ‘Merger’, Keiichi Matsuda shares a dystopian vision of how a work place would look in a future where artificial intelligence has taken control. A tele-operator is trapped between the virtual and the physical reality when she starts to fight back against the algorithms that have taken over the company and fired her colleagues.
VR:Cosmic 360 Program:
Kumbh Mela
Vikas Panday, 6 min
India, 2019
Take a spiritual trip, through the largest gathering of people on Earth, in India’s Kumbh Mela. A gathering of humanity so mammoth it can be seen from space.
Conscious Existence
Marc Zimmermann, 13 min
Germany, 2018
Marc Zimmermann, is back with another visually stunning exploration of the Virtual Reality-medium, and our conscious mind.
Fistful of Stars
Eliza McNitt, 6 min
USA, 2017
Explore the cosmos through the lens of the Hubble Telescope. Journey to the Orion Nebula and experience the birth, life, and death of a star.
