Participation in the installation is restricted to adults only.
The experience is designed for two people, regardless of gender, but can also be done individually.
Tickets are valid for a specific date and time and are for two people.
One session lasts approximately 25 minutes.
The interactive art installation IVF-X: Posthuman Parenting in Hybrid Reality by Victorine van Alphen combines artificial intelligence and XR technology with film, theater, and performance. Speculating on the future of human reproduction, the Dutch artist and philosopher created a hybrid reality that allows digital “procreation” in a post-human clinic using AI. Participants can “create” and see their own cyborg-child rendered by AI—in virtual reality.
This unique experience offers a new, futuristic dimension that goes far beyond conventional binary thinking and raises important questions about post-human existence. It allows participants to design, in collaboration with AI and based on human choices, a being existing on the boundary of humanity and technology. The installation touches on the significant and timely topic of creating community in virtual reality and our shared existence within it. It questions genetics and reproduction in a world where technology is increasingly detached from the physical body, and whether, as physical beings, we can feel a sense of community with digital entities—and what it truly means to be a “digital being.” It explores the consequences of (over)using AI technology to explore unknown and unpredictable territories.
IVF-X: Posthuman Parenting in Hybrid Reality received the FilmfestBremen Innovation Award and the Golden Calf at NFF 2021—the Dutch equivalent of the Oscars.
On Saturday, 19.10 at 16:00, there will be a meeting with the installation’s creator, Victorine van Alphen with Marcin Maciejewski as a host. It will be held at Apteka Designu (Kopernika 19a).
The meeting will be in English. Free entry.