Hybrid Infinities
In oktober 2021 startten FHK en FACI samen met STRP Festival het project ‘Hybrid Infinities’. In groepen gingen studenten en alumni van FACI en FHK aan de slag om een concept voor STRP Festival 2022 te ontwerpen. De opdracht was om een concept rondom de thematiek van STRP ‘An End to Infinity’. Het winnende project, Onlife Game, door 5 deelnemers van verschillende disciplines is geëxposeerd op STRP Festival, 6-10 April 2022 in Eindhoven.
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In oktober 2021 startten Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts en Fontys Academy for Creative Economy, samen met STRP Festival het project ‘Hybrid Infinities’.
In this interdisciplinary research project students and alumni experimented with creating meaningful, engaging, and immersive experiences between physical and online audiences using creative technologies. The project speaks to the need to consolidate different embodied experiences as people move between virtual and physical spaces which have been exaggerated by pandemic conditions.
Growth, innovation, and improvement. Partly due to technological developments, we can do more and desire more. People produce and consume more and more, but the earth's resources are not infinite. We are increasingly connected through apps and social media, but how long can you give attention? We have reached the end of infinity.
Under the guidance of artist Ian Biscoe, design research studio affect lab, and the futurists of Fontys research group ‘Designing the Future’, students learned to give hybrid form to images of the future by using technology, art, and futures research. Group participants started in October 2021 work on their own ‘hybrid’ projects on ‘infinity’.
The winning project, Onlife Game, by five participants from different disciplines, was exposed at STRP Festival, 6-10 April 2022 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Onlife Game is a physical and browser-based experience. It presents a speculative future scenario in which a powerful algorithm has found the solution to over-and underpopulation. This formula needs to be discovered by playing a game in which online and offline visitors must decide upon the input that determines the future scenario. The project speaks to the crisis in the exhaustion of planetary resources, as well as to how much we should trust technology.
For The Onlife Game, Alberto Tudisca (Music Production master's student), Sebaastian Schoonen (ArtCoDe student), Daniela Lavacca (Trend Research & Concept Development student) collaborated with Creative Director Raquel Pais da Silva and composer Vlad Chlek. .
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Kunstenaar Ian Biscoe, Ian Biscoe,
Design research studio affect lab, design research studio affect lab,
