A virtual reality experience about the Carnation Revolution – which took place on April 25, 1974 – overthrowing more than 40 years of dictatorship in Portugal, looking back to the present and reflecting on what remains of the revolution, and what the challenges and risks are for the future of democracy.
PROJECT
LAB 2023-2024
Fully Automated Contact Zone
Two sites of REWILDING collide inside an AI-driven animation: Swiss Alps and my intestines. Fed real world data, AI evolves strategies for ecosystem balance inside a game engine simulation. A live stream; a stage performance with artist, cat and algorithm; an essay film braiding together philosophical questions and my intergenerational story.
Miriam Simun / United States
PROJECT
LAB 2023-2024
Garden Alchemy
Garden Alchemy XR is an interactive audiovisual and tactile Experimentarium. It is a multiuser, co-location, equilibrium playground: A celebration of music, hand-painted animation and immersive installation.
Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot / Denmark, Israel
PROJECT
LAB 2023-2024
Fay - Carving Memories
Haunted Healing follows the story of two siblings who have lost their father, in an immersive VR experience that aims to shed light on the topic of grief, and foster an understanding of the spectrum of emotions and coping strategies encountered in the grieving process.
Rita Martinos , Maria Herholdt Engermann, Fabian Driehorst/ Lebanon, France, Denmark, Germany
PROJECT
LAB 2023-2024
Hermaphrogenesis
A participatory installation that examines relationship with our bodies. Hermaphrogenesis stages the immersion into the viscera in a meditative, ambient setting where participants engage in a reversed autopsy to rearrange human anatomy and create an androgynous organism.
Marcin Gawin / Poland
PROJECT
LAB 2023-2024
Anamnesis
Engage with an AI-simulated being in distress, exploring its memories through investigative questions. Your verbal empathy shapes the narrative.
Petr Salaba, Ondrej Hrach / Czech Republic
PROJECT
LAB 2023-2024
Paradise Lost
The last minutes of life of a political prisoner in Smyrna in 1922, create an immersive voyage through time and space.
Yolanda Markopoulou, Ioanna Valsamidou, Paris Mexis, Charis Lalousis, Manolis Manousakis, Michael Tebinka / Greece, Italy
PROJECT
LAB 2023-2024
Tales Of A Nomadic City
‘Tales of a Nomadic City’ is an immersive, multi-platform project chronicling the city of Nouakchott in Mauritania.
Christian Vium, Med Lemine Rajel, Kathrine Fremming, Rikke Tambo/ Denmark, Mauritania
PROJECT
LAB 2023-2024
The Bald Altuus
Auto-fiction portrait of a Romanian immigrant family settling in the United States in the 1980’s, presented as an infinitely-generative video game. Staged as an American TV sitcom on endless repeat, stock digital avatars perform increasingly dysfunctional variations on the family drama while haunted by memories of the Ceaușescu regime.
Kat Mustatea, Peter Burr / United States, Romania
PROJECT
LAB 2022-2023
DIPLOMATIC REBEL
Diplomatic Rebel is an RPG for Smartphone and Tablet. You play the 16-year-old ’Ariana’ navigating the Afghan and Danish cultures, earning both Rebel points and Diplomatic points along the way as you create a space for YOU without burning bridges.
Lea Glob, Karen Waltorp, Nilab Totakhil, Mursal Khosrawi, Asma Safi, Sama Sadat Ben Haddou, Andreas Dalsgaard / Denmark, Afghanistan / ARTlife Film Collective
PROJECT
LAB 2022-2023
Nëpp Nëppël
Nëpp Nëppël is a multimedia collaborative project using the artistic process to explore gender justice and advocacy in sensitive contexts.
Elijah Ndoumbe, Laetitia Walendom / France, Chad
PROJECT
LAB 2022-2023
THE FOREST THAT BREATHES US
A virtual reality experience from filmmaker Jennifer Abbott with ground-breaking forest ecologist Suzanne Simard, The Forest That Breathes Us transports participants into a perspective of unfathomable interconnection by taking them inside the complex communication networks, familial relationships, memories and agency of a forest.
Jennifer Abbott, Suzanne Simard, Djwa Jai / Canada / Flying Eye Productions
PROJECT
LAB 2022-2023
SLIPSTREAMING
A huge, high-tech cruise ship is floating in international waters. On board, a community experimenting with new forms of social, political, and legal systems. What can possibly go wrong?
Barbara Matijevic, Giuseppe Chico / Croatia, Italy
PROJECT
LAB 2022-2023
GHOST GENES
Ghost Genes is a science-seance that uses embodied technology for a convening with the ghosts in our DNA, and in the history of genetics. It asks who creates the parameters of identities, and invites the listener to eavesdrop on the ghosts that haunt our genes.
Sister Sylvester / Ireland / Sister Sylvester
PROJECT
LAB 2022-2023
COLLATERAL ECHOES VR
Collateral Echoes is a new VR artwork concerned with the disproportionate instances of Black and Immigrant Britons who have died at the hands of the police since records began in 1969.
Through sensorial renderings of archival images, artefacts and oral testimonies from those bereaved, this work questions how personal memories might be experienced as collective commemoration.
Baff Akoto, Lidz-Ama Appiah, Luke W Moody / UK, Ireland / Recurring Dreams, Lono Studio
PROJECT
LAB 2022-2023
UNSTABLE EVIDENCE
You’ve gone viral in a social media video; but it’s not “you”, rather a digital version that looks and sounds just like you making statements you would never say.
Francesca Panetta, Halsey Burgund, Magnus Bjerg, Shehani Fernando / United Kingdom, United States, Denmark
PROJECT
LAB 2022-2023
ZEDNA
“Zedna” is a feature VR documentary film, an investigation of the process of decolonization and of broken identities. An experience and relevant voice in the ongoing debate on colonialism.
Mikisoq Hove Lynge, Wiebe van der Vliet, David Adler / Greenland, Netherlands, Denmark
PROJECT
LAB 2022-2023
BABEL
BABEL is a « dance-umentary », a documentary you can dance to. Conceived as an immersive and interactive audiovisual concert, it is inspired by the biblical myth of the Tower of Babel to explore Humanity in its diversity and unity.
Fanny Fortage, Harry Clunet-Farlow, Sara Didierjean / France / ENTER.black
PROJECT
LAB 2021-2022
OCEANIC FEELING
Oceanic Feeling is an immersive VR 360 documentary and installation taking viewers on a first-person journey through the four extraordinary metamorphoses of the mysterious European Eel to gain a new perspective on our relationship with the more-than-human world.
UK, Germany, Denmark / Joey Bania, Lion Bischof, Tine Mikkelsen
PROJECT
LAB 2021-2022
DEEP TRUTH
Your heart rate can synchronise with that of others and it slows down when you hold your breath. For every heartbeat, our skin shifts colour-from less red to more. Though there is no way for our eyes to see it directly. With the technology used in Deep Truth, it will be possible to see in real time.
Sweden / Jennifer Rainsford, YUKEI
PROJECT
LAB 2021-2022
LOCAL BINARIES
Every person you meet holds a world inside them, what does yours look like? This was the question artist Lauren Moffatt asked nine female-identifying individuals originating from across the world in order to define the blueprints for the universe inside Local Binaries.
Australia / Lauren Moffatt
PROJECT
LAB 2021-2022
MONO NO AWARE
Mono No Aware, “Everything in Existence is Temporary”, is a free-movement, volumetrically filmed VR documentary, which brings the people who once lived in the towns desolated by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster back home for a fleeting moment.
Finland, Japan / Timo Wright, Ada Johnsson
PROJECT
LAB 2021-2022
NON-ALIGNED NEWSREELS
An artistic research project re-activating forgotten archives of 1960s liberation movements and newly-independent countries in Africa filmed by Yugoslav cameraman. The resulting exhibition on cine-collaborations and live cinema event seeks to extend the gestures of solidarity with which the original films were created, by inviting communities featured in the footage to engage with them.
Serbia / Mila Turajlic, Maja Medić
PROJECT
LAB 2021-2022
SWARM
As a bee, you need to swarm a city together with your sisters in order to confront unacceptable changes that have been forced upon you. Unless you fight united for your future, nothing will be the same.
Poland, Hungary, Germany / Ula Sowa, Viktoria Szabo, Fabian Driehorst
PROJECT
LAB 2021-2022
THE PATHOGEN OF WAR
A medical mystery confronts us with how we are interconnected. An Iraqi physician turned medical anthropologist uncovers how conflict is linked to the evolution and spread of a bacteria that has defeated the world’s superpowers, threatening modern medicine, to ask “if war is a key driver of disease, can we end all wars to save our health?”
Lebanon, UK / Yasmin Fedda, May Abdalla, Dan Davies
PROJECT
LAB 2021-2022
THE SACRED CAVE OF KAMUKUWAKÁ
The brutal desecration of ancient Amazonian rock-art in the Xingu, (Brazil) threatens the Wauja people’s living culture. A digital resurrection breathes new life into the vast cos- movision of stories, mythical spirits, rites, and rituals that underpin this remote Indigenous community’s connection with sacred landscapes of rivers and rainforests.
Brazil, Spain, UK, Portugal / Piratá Waurá, Alejandro Romero, Nathaniel Mann, Mafalda Ramos
PROJECT
LAB 2021-2022
DARK ROOMS - ENTER UNKNOWN TERRITORY
Dark Rooms is a sensual playground to curiously explore, leaving you with an expanded awareness of sexual diversity.
Denmark / Laurits Flensted-Jensen, Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen, Anne Sofie Steen Sverdrup, Mads Damsbo, Lasse Munk
PROJECT
LAB 2020-2021
CONNECTIONS - NO ONE IS AN ISLAND
Closed borders, lockdowns and restrictions have separated us during the pandemic. Now it is time to connect, to process the experience together and look ahead. ‘Connections – No One Is an Island’ invites you on an interactive global journey through the Corona era and the emotions that connect us.
50 min / Denmark, Finland, Canada / Suvi Andrea Helminen, Ulrik Gutkin, Kasper Bøttcher
PROJECT
LAB 2020-2021
KVÖLDVAKA
‘Kvöldvaka’ is a playful Augmented Reality experience inspired by Icelandic folklore. A frustrated representative of the Hidden People wants you to rediscover a lost relationship to nature. If you’re worthy, you’ll find it.
10 min / Denmark, Hungary, United States / Dane Christensen, Carol Dalrymple, Barna Szász
PROJECT
LAB 2020-2021
MIMIC
‘MIMIC’ is an interactive web documentary that builds a collective portrait about our evolving human relationship with artificial intelligence.
20 min / Canada, United States, South Korea / Reid Hannaford, Danielle Sheli Levy, Arthur Choi
PROJECT
LAB 2020-2021
SONIC CELLUMONIALS
Experience yourself as Homomicrobis – a symbiosis of human and microbe – as you embark on a guided journey into the multispecies dimension of your body, from the comfort of your home.
25 min / Denmark, UK / Baum & Leahy, Greg Orrom Swan, Sofie Birch
PROJECT
LAB 2020-2021
SYMBIOTICA
‘Symbiotica’ takes place in an online interactive Virtual Reality Hub and through a series of Augmented Reality filters, that allow participants to embody different microorganisms and discover the message that lichen – a collective entity made of many species – has for humanity.
30 min / Chile / Natalie Cabrera, Juan Ferrer, Sebastián González
PROJECT
LAB 2020-2021
THE SMALLEST OF WORLDS – A SOCIAL LANDSCAPE OF COLLECTED PRIVACY
‘The Smallest of Worlds’ is an immersive archive composed of people’s most personal places and intimate moments during their home quarantine.
20 min / Austria, Germany, Spain / Uwe Brunner, Bettina Katja Lange, Joan Soler-Adillon
PROJECT
LAB 2019-2020
CIVIL DUSK
‘Civil Dusk’ is a walk-through installation using screens and projections. It features two interlinked short films on belonging, and (post)-migration experiences.
Germany, Nigeria / David Uzochukwu, David Reitenbach
PROJECT
LAB 2019-2020
DARK ORIGINS
Dark Origins is a 3-part VR journey to the edge of scientific knowledge, inviting people to experience the contested origins of life deep inside the Earth.
United Kingdom / Calum Bowden, Jelena Viskovic
PROJECT
LAB 2019-2020
ECOLOGIES OF MEMORY
“Ecologies of Memory” is an interdisciplinary project that uses the creative potential of memory – both human and non-human – to investigate the possible connections and exchanges between ecosystems, cultures of remembrance and sensor-technology.
Denmark, United Kingdom / Helene Nymann, Lasse Smith
PROJECT
LAB 2019-2020
EXPLORING BORDERS
‘Exploring Borders’ is a VR experience designed for multiple users at the same time. This project allows the visitors to experience the in-between, where creativity lays, and to see the border as a hyphen.
France / Aude-Emilie Judaïque, Lucie Plançon, Chloé Jarry
PROJECT
LAB 2019-2020
FLEE VR
What is it like to carry around trauma in your day to day life? How does this affect your ability to relate to other people? ‘Flee VR’ is a surreal, narrative VR experience that aims to impress the consequences of this fact upon the user, in a safe and relatable environment.
Canada, Denmark / Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Jess Nicholls, Charlotte de la Gournerie, Monica Hellström
PROJECT
LAB 2019-2020
GARDEN OF GHOSTS FLOWERS
Garden of Ghost Flowers is a group participatory mixed reality installation where plants have evolved traits as a protective mechanism to nudge humans to realize their evolutionary importance.
Sweden, United Kingdom / Christer Lundahl, Martina Seitl
PROJECT
LAB 2019-2020
MISSING 10 HOURS
Missing 10 Hours VR is a computer-generated, multi-ending, multi-user virtual reality piece. In the accompanying documentart film, Krisztina is going on a quest to find out what happened to her 10 years ago when she was drugged by two strangers in Denmark.
Austria / Fanni Fazakas, Krisztina Meggyes, Daniel Benyi
PROJECT
LAB 2019-2020
MUNKINATION: SECOND CHANCE
An immersive hiphopera and VR experience, which places the audience member at the centre of a futuristic adventure story about climate change. The project mixes musical styles and genres, combining live performance with a distinctive graphic world. ‘Munkination’ won the inaugural Royal Opera House/GUAP Immersive Opera Award in 2019.
United Kingdom, USA / HAM the Illustrator, Isabelle Kettle, Maf’j Alvarez, Annette Mees
PROJECT
LAB 2019-2020
THE LANGUAGE OF SILENCE VR
The primary goal of this experience is creating awareness, empathy and a space for difficult conversations to take place and challenge these honour narratives, rampant in most of the developing world, by sparking debate
Pakistan, USA / Amena Hayat
PROJECT
LAB 2018-2019
BREATHE
We live in an ocean of air. When air first filled your lungs, everything changed. Without air, birds would plummet from the sky, plants would wither and we humans would suffocate. As we breathe in and out, air mingles with our bodily tissues, filling the lungs and oxygenating the blood. Air knows no borders.
Denmark, Finland, Sweden, USA / Diego Galafassi, Lisa Holmqvist, Jesper Kurlandsky
PROJECT
LAB 2018-2019
CAPTURED
Why do we submit to mob rule? We like to think of ourselves as rational, responsible individuals, in charge of our lives and destinies, but sometimes a cluster of beliefs and rumors overpower individuals and collective instincts take charge.
Finland, India, USA / Hanna Haaslahti, Tyler Henry, Alap Parikh
PROJECT
LAB 2018-2019
CLIMATE SYMPHONY
‘Climate Symphony’ is a live music and visual performance that creates an emotional journey through the most beautiful tragedy of human existence. This is the sound of a dying planet and our transient position in it. The situation has never been more critical. In 2016, we passed the point of no return. It is already too late.
United Kingdom / Leah Borromeo, Katharine Round, Jamie Perera
PROJECT
LAB 2018-2019
DRUZHBA
This project focuses on the Druzhba pipeline system, also referred to as the ‘Friendship Pipeline’ – the world’s longest oil pipeline, stretching 4,000 km across Russia.
the Netherlands, United Kingdom / Philo van Kemenade, Frederick Paxton
PROJECT
LAB 2018-2019
HUSH
HUSH is a 10 min. sensory VR-installation that lets you be the subject of a myth. You will experience a call from the sea, that invites you to let go of the physical world. The real world will literally wash away, submerging you in a mysterious, yet comforting world under water. A world that seduces you with the promise of an eternal home in the abyss.
10 min / Denmark / Vibeke Bryld
PROJECT
LAB 2018-2019
NERD_FUNK
In the current climate of the Internet, we have reached an irreversible state in our social life and inherently the way we think and comprehend our reality. It’s a situation we have all dived into, floating and yet struggling to find ourselves in it.
the Netherlands / Mamali Shahafi, Ali Eslami
PROJECT
LAB 2018-2019
PRISON X
Set in Bolivia’s infamous San Sebastian jail, Prison X is an interactive arcade role-play documentary, hand-painted in VR. Heavy doors open up and suck you in as a world of Neo-Andean magical realism swirls around you and where you have to keep the devil drunk to survive inside the prison.
Australia, Bolivia, Chile, USA / Violeta Ayala, Dan Fallshaw, Camila Claros, Olivia Barron
PROJECT
LAB 2018-2019
RESORTS
‘Resorts’ takes you on a beautiful deconstructed holiday where you are free to study the human tourist as a species and get an up close perspective on the complexities of the tourism. How do we behave when we lay roasting on the beach, party like there’s no tomorrow or take the perfect selfie in the desert?
25 min / Denmark / Mette Carla Albrechtsen, Rikke Tambo Anderse
PROJECT
LAB 2018-2019
YOU CAN'T WATCH THIS
‘You Can’t Watch This’ is an immersive and interactive audiovisual installation, based on sound AR; a poetic true crime podcast; a flat / 2D film investigating the aftermath of the story.
Denmark / Sebastian Cordes, Michael Graversen, Mette Mikkelsen