Who will own the Metaverse? Who will be represented? And how do we ensure that it’s shaped for all of us? This is the subject of the 2023 CPH:DOX INTER:ACTIVE Symposium set for March 20 during the leading Danish docfest. Top experts will seek answers to these questions, and together with representatives of the nine new CPH:LAB projects, will examine the creative landscape into which they are emerging.
Sofie Hvitved, the Danish Futurist and Head of Media at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies is the keynote speaker, and is followed by artists Lauren Moffat, Jakob Kudsk Steensen and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, who will take doc and interactive professionals “deeper into the convergence of the physical and digital worlds, the rise of the game engine, what digital work gets funded and exhibited, and what ends up suppressed.”
Eva Jäger, Curator of Arts Technologies at Serpentine Galleries, will consider how we can build future art ecosystems, while Calum Bowden explores how blockchain and Web 3.0 can be applied to the creative ecology. Finally, Jake Elwes will guide us through “queering the dataset, in order to confront social bias in AI.”
The INTER:ACTIVE Symposium is curated and hosted by Mark Atkin, the Head of Studies of CPH:LAB and curator of CPH:DOX’s INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition. The event will take place on March 20, 2023 15:00 – 18:00 at CPH:DOX’s Social Cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen).
CPH:LAB 2023
After completing a seven-month training program, the 28 CPH:LAB participants will take the stage with their 9 new projects in development, created via immersive technologies such as VR, AR, video and audio installations as well as cross-media. For a full overview of the projects click here.
Some of the brains behind the projects include acclaimed documentary filmmakers such as Baff Akoto, winner of the Grand Prix of 13th Rencontres de Bamako Biennial (presenting Collateral Echoes); Lea Glob, winner of the IDFA Award for Best Film 2022 (presenting Diplomatic Rebel); and Emmy Award winner Francesca Panetta (presenting Unstable Evidence). Other projects offer new perspectives from emerging talents, such as Ghost Genes by Sister Sylvester and BABEL from the ENTER.black team.The CPH:LAB projects will be presented at the INTER:ACTIVE Symposium on March 20 2023, followed-up by a pop-up exhibition of their prototypes at Odd Fellow Palace accessible to accredited guests and ticket holders.
