During this session, Dutch artist and philosopher Victorine van Alphen, the creator of the award-winning hybrid experience IVF-X: Posthuman Parenting in Hybrid Reality, presented at the Patchlab festival, will discuss the methodology she uses in designing interdisciplinary immersive experiences that allow participants to step out of taboo zones by hacking social conventions.
The conversation will be moderated by Marcin Maciejewski, a Future(s) Strategist, who leads strategic research and development projects for future products and services.
The session will be conducted in English.
Free admission.
The event will be recorded and made available online.
Victorine van Alphen is an audiovisual artist, philosopher, and curator who creates transmedial works that extrapolate current techno-cultural trends into futuristic experiences. Combining her expertise as a performer and philosopher, she explores the boundaries between nature and culture, rationality and sensuality, control and submission, materiality and immateriality, analog and digital, and reality and virtuality. Her works require viewers to transition through different modes of perception, as Van Alphen describes them.
In her radical research journey, Van Alphen spent 6 months in CGI, discovering procedural technologies she now uses to create “cyborgs” in VR. Her posthumanist IVF-X project was shortlisted for the Golden Calf for Digital Culture at the Netherlands Film Festival.
Van Alphen completed degrees in philosophy and interdisciplinary sciences, as well as audiovisual arts at Rietveld University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam. Her transdisciplinary approach is evident in her ongoing research into “choreographing ways of being.”
Marcin Maciejewski Future(s) Strategist – leads strategic research and development projects for future products and services. In his work, he utilises design research along with trends, forces, and factors of change (mega, macro, micro) to identify opportunities and bring long-term innovations to life. He emphasises kinesthetic learning: touching to understand better, lifting to feel, building to grasp, and drawing to experience. He is fascinated by global changes through the lens of human nature—behaviours, moods, thoughts, emotions, and imagination. He has worked as a Foresight Leader at Deutsche Telekom’s Technology Incubator and is currently part of the research and consulting firm infuture.institute. He is a lecturer at SWPS University in Warsaw, AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, and WSB Merito University in Gdańsk. For years, he has been connected with the creative industries.