This year, the DocLab Exhibition continues at @droog, a short walk from de Brakke Grond. The range of different projects on show means you're assured of finding new perspectives. In Future Botanica, you can get your virtual hands dirty as a futuristic gardener: with an augmented reality app you design new plant species to shape your own vision of the future of nature and technology. Groundbreaking audio project Drift also gives an alternate glimpse of the future: this generative audio experience paints a picture of how the climate crisis and rising sea levels will present us with a sink-or-swim moment – or have we already reached that point? Sincerely, Victor Pike (also presented in a full-dome version at DocLab at the Planetarium) also uses AI-generated material. But, in this case, to reconstruct fragmented memories from the past. In contrast, there's nothing artificial to be seen in Lisa Schamlé's live performance Me, a Depiction. As a living component of her own installation, she explores our ideal of beauty and seeks confrontation with her own body—and with the spectators.
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Drift
In a generative audio experience, Drift connects rising sea levels and the climate crisis to the rise of AI. The story world combines the imaginary with factual sources at the pace and rhythm of the lunar phases and the tides.
Future Botanica
Nature and technology are increasingly merging. In an installation during IDFA, this augmented reality app allows you to design botanical lifeforms and thus explore desires and fears regarding the future of nature.
Me, a Depiction
As a living part of her performance/installation, Lisa Schamlé confronts both herself and her audience. Is it possible to look at her body without judgement? As you watch, she looks back.
Sincerely, Victor Pike
Audio recordings are combined with AI-generated visuals to form a collective memory. In a hodgepodge of recollections and anecdotes, AI is used as a means to portray something as subjective as memories.