AI & Me
Can AI know me just by looking at me? This provocative installation investigates the human willingness to be judged by machines purely on the basis of their appearance.
DocLab Exhibition
Description
This year, IDFA DocLab revolves around the theme of This Is Not a Simulation. Can computers think or create something new? Can reality really be virtual? Would we want it to be? As IDFA DocLab celebrates its 18th edition, it is time for a reality check. How are interactive media, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence changing our perception and physical experience of the world around us? Can they offer us more than addictive escapism from a reality that feels increasingly broken?
With This Is Not a Simulation, IDFA DocLab celebrates that reality is not a dream, or a figment of the imagination of some sentient supercomputer. The program presents 28 immersive artworks, AI experiences, and live performances by artists working across theatre, film, games, new media, and bio art. Each in their own way celebrating the true fabric of reality, a connective tissue that connects us all.
Entry is free, so you can freely explore the entire selection of projects. Don't forget to reserve a ticket online.
Composition
Burn from Absence
A video installation and fulldome experience that present the Vietnamese family history of artist Emeline Courcier as a polyphonic narrative. Family photographs and stories are processed by AI to fill the gaps in this auto-fictional work.
DOLLHOUSE for Queer Imaginaries
What does a safe space for queer people look like? This VR project invites visitors to playfully explore the virtual dollhouse, raising questions about what makes a place a home.
Entropic Fields of Displacement
A game installation based on the idea of wandering as an act of resistance. In a video installation the artist explores, via different women, the cities in which they live. In an interactive performance, the audience guides her avatar through Amsterdam.
Google volume 2
Ten years after the release of Google, Volume 1, this second edition once again displays the first Google Image result for each of the 21,110 words in the English Pocket Dictionary. It sheds light on the changes in our visual culture over the last decade.
The Liminal
A sound installation surrounds a wall. It seems like a partition, but if you listen carefully you can hear a community. In the wall live those who decided to leave the current world with all its oppressive systems. In the wall they flourish.
Oryza: Healing Ground
This immersive installation places a hidden chapter from world history in the full glare of the spotlights. Experience the resilience, inventiveness and historical influence of African farmers within a relentlessly oppressive system.
Sena, and Their Garden
A playful two-part interactive project about queer acceptance among Christians in South Korea. In Sena, you witness the personal struggles of a young lesbian woman, while in Their Garden you accompany the mother of a queer child on her journey.
Speechless Witness of a Wandering Tree
Throughout history, rulers have used blinding as a tool of oppression. In an immersive recreation of a protester’s experience, we flow with her melancholy and resistance while accompanying her quest from her room to a desert.
Töngö sondi
A short surrealist animation about language and oppression, inspired by the story of the Tower of Babel. Within an immersive installation, as intense as it is minimalistic, the film depicts the intimate entanglement of language and identity.
You Can Sing Me on My Way
The Irish Gaelic sean-nós singing that this sphere produces does not originate from the distant past, but is generated automatically by AI. A celebration of Irish cultural heritage with the help of innovative technology.
IDFA DocLab Program & Competition
