Curated by CPH:LAB’s Head of Studies Mark Atkin, this year’s INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition for the first time ever probes the intersection of gaming and art, presenting works that “define the current era: game engines and AI, which are also the building blocks of the emergent metaverse,” write organisers.
The creators behind the works are for the most part neurodiverse, non-binary, queer, marginalised and activists, “subverting established visual languages in order to address our existence between the physical and digital realms from a non-heteronormative standpoint,” write organisers.
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Mark Atkin comments: “It’s been a privilege to work with such a diverse range of artists to present this year’s INTER:ACTIVE exhibition. Each work is exploring the dominant media platforms that define the present era: games and AI. As a collection, it presents a snapshot of the current human condition with one foot on terra firma and the other in the digital realm, and they hint at the opportunities and complications this entails. These artists are all pioneering the use of the tools that will be used to create the metaverse, but as they are also activists, provocateurs, or representing marginalised viewpoints, we have to ask who is actually building the metaverse, whether these artists would find a place there, and what we need to do now to make sure that they will.”
INTER:ACTIVE Live Specials & INTER:ACTIVE Off-site
Alongside the seventeen pieces at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, three INTER:ACTIVE Live Specials will be presented throughout the festival. In As Mine Exactly the artist revisits his relation to his mother and the medical emergency that reshaped their lives in an intimate one-on-one experience that blends virtual reality and performance film during March 18-26. Commissioned by Serpentine’s R&D Platform, Hivemind is a knowledge game taking place on March 19, 16:00 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, where the participants can follow along a labyrinth with Artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, whereas Me The Drag Queen and Jake Elwes present a unique show about queerness, cabaret, deep-fakes and AI technology, in Zizi and Me on March 19, 17:30.
An off-site VR experience will be exhibited during the festival at Khora for a preview of Paul McCarthy’s newest virtual reality artwork: A&E. This challenging and disturbing work by this groundbreaking and influential artist invites a questioning of our way of life and is included when purchasing a ticket to the main exhibition, the festival writes.
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The INTER:ACTIVE exhibition runs during the entire duration of the festival, March 15-26, and is open to both the public and accredited guests with a valid ticket.
