Algorithmic Perfumery
Based on the visitor’s personal data, an algorithm compiles a unique fragrance that is generated on site.
Eye of the Dream
An immersive audiovisual experience that transports you through the entire development of the universe, in a play of geometric shapes combining chaos and order.
Zikr: A Sufi Revival
An interactive virtual reality journey into a world of ecstatic ritual and music.
Volverium
In this multi-sensorial dream journey that raises existential questions, artist Thijs Biersteker confronts us with the unexplored beauty outside our information bubble.
Uaxuctum
Music and its source of inspiration converge in this mesmeric VR recording of Giacinto Scelsi’s notoriously difficult orchestral work about an ancient Mayan sacred place.
This Room
A powerful VR installation that lets us experience how traumatic it is to spend years living in a refugee center.
Tendar
This augmented reality game explores our relationship with technology and how it impacts other relationships through a virtual pet fish that eats our emotions to survive.
Tatsuniya
A multimedia story encapsulating the experiences of Nigerian students who want to continue learning, despite the atrocities carried out by Boko Haram.
The Social Sorting Experiment
Through mindless online swiping and scrolling, we’re all ranked, categorized and profiled. But what happens under the shiny hood of your phone?
Pilgrim
This innovative augmented reality app lets us walk a while with pilgrims heading to Santiago de Compostela, each with their own story and experience.
Nour
Play with your digital food to your heart’s content in this intentionally purposeless game about culinary aesthetics—and no need to worry about clearing up afterwards.
Leaked Recipes
Recipes that have been crowdsourced from leaked emails are served up, along with the story of their origin and a discussion about internet privacy.
I’ve Always Been Jealous of Other People’s Families
This machine learning installation questions the mental state of the intelligent machines we create.
Half Life VR
This immersive VR recording plunges us into a rhythmic “cyborg choreography” shown from 60 different angles.
Future History
The revolutionary years 1917 and 1968 are brought to life in the here and now through social media posts from hundreds of the historical figures involved.
Flavours of Iraq
Twenty powerful animated films appeal to the senses in a rich portrayal of the country and familiy of an Iraqi-French journalist.
Eat | Tech | Kitchen
A rudimentary chatbot breathes new life into La cucina futurista (Futurist Cooking) (1932) by translating dreams of the future into new recipes and table rituals.
East of the Rockies
Through the diaries of 17-year-old Yuki, this experiment in augmented reality helps us experience the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War
A Dinner with Frankenstein AI
An intimate dinner experience that delves deeply into the tensions between human and machine.
Die with Me
A chat room app for smartphone users with less than 5% battery life on their phone, on their way to offline peace.
The Collider: Chapter One
Enter The Collider. A machine built to decipher the mysteries of human relationships.
Algorithmic Gardening
This multimedia installation follows the hardy soybean on its journey from garden to dinner plate, escorted by robots.
Ahorse!
This richly cinematic VR piece presents an alternative history of human imagination, focused on our depiction of the horse from the beginning of time to a virtual future.
Accused no. 2: Walter Sisulu
Audio recordings of the notorious Rivonia Trial in South Africa in 1964 come to life in this black-and-white animated VR experience.
10 Mississippi
This sometimes uncomfortably intimate game transforms the daily grind into a mission: morning exercises, office job, chow down, repeat, repeat, repeat.
1 the Road
“Automatic writing” will never mean the same thing again, now that artificial intelligence has written the book 1 the Road—using a car as its pen.
The Industry VR
As you explore their workspaces, marijuana growers and coke barons tell you about the kicks and the stress of their illegal work.
False Mirror
This ever-growing VR city is a laboratory in which its creator Ali Eslami explores our possible futures in completely virtual worlds.
Earn a Living
Seven documentaries about a universal basic income explore our relationship with work and money, from Kenya to the Netherlands and from North Carolina to Tokyo.
Awavena
Technology and transcendence merge in this VR experience transporting you to the Yawanawá in the Amazon. Your guide is the community’s first female shaman.
DocLab: Interactive Conference Live Stream
The annual DocLab Interactive Conference brings together digital pioneers, artists and thinkers for a full day inspiring presentations, visions of the future and collective experiments.
DocLab Academy: [The Brain] OpenLab
[The Brain] is a cybernetic theatre laboratory networking the audience together via mobile-technology to create an artificial-artificial-intelligence (AAI).
DocLab Academy: Workshop Day at Lava Lab
A full day of hand’s on workshops by several professionals, taking place at design and technology innovation lab Lava Lab.
DocLab Academy: Interdisciplinary Collaborations
A collaborative session with the Sandberg@Mediapark Masterclass about the do’s and don’ts of interdisciplinary collaborations.
Industry Session: Recipes for Interactivity
Several artists from this year’s DocLab: Humanoid Cookbook exhibition will share which role technology, story and the audience play in the creation of their work.
DocLab Academy: Kick-off
The official kick-off of theDocLab Academy, a unique program in which emerging interactive artists, storytellers, and documentary filmmakers gather.
Immersive Network Summit
Invite only think tank event for experts from all corners of the interactive and immersive storytelling industry to explore next steps in developing the medium.
DocLab Expo: Humanoid Cookbook
This years’s DocLab exhibition is designed as a restaurant for digital art. On the menu there are more than 30 interactive documentaries, culinary performances and interactive experiments with human behavior and technology.
DocLab Interactive Conference
The annual Interactive Conference is back! Join us Saturday, November 17th.
Doclab Live: Jacco Gardner’s Somnium
Sensory live performance in the ARTIS planetarium of Jacco Gardner’s new album Somnium and the kinetic installation Volverium by Thijs Biersteker.
DocLab Live: Assorted Revolutions
An evening about simmering revolutions, future revolutions and irreversible changes.
DocLab Live: Eat | Tech | Dinner Party
What does the internet taste like? An unpredictable futuristic feast full of digital technology and old-fashioned good food.
DocLab Live: Leaked Chef’s Table
An interactive dinner based on personal recipes from leaked emails from well-known politicians and corporate executives.
DocLab Live: A Dinner with Frankenstein AI
A vegetarian dining experience for people of flesh and blood, with artificial intelligence as host and discussion partner.
DocLab Live: Artificial Stupidity
Live event about man vs artificial intelligence, with interactive performances by The Collider: Chapter One and The Smartphone Orchestra’s The Social Sorting Experiment.
DocLab Live: Humanoid Cookbook Opening Night
Festive opening night of DocLab: Humanoid Cookbook. With interviews and interactive performances by a.o. AI artist Ross Goodwin and food artist Gabriela Ivens.
[The Brain]
Discover what it’s like to be part of a collective brain: a self-organizing, complex system that generates autonomous output.
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An interactive theater experience that puts you in the place of the super-rich one percent for a single night, calling all the shots in our economy.
DocLab Expo Specials
Join the makers of the DocLab: Humanoid Cookbook exhibition, and let yourself be surprised by sensory experiments and interactive performances, including a small culinary journey from France to Iraq (Flavours of Iraq) and a disruptive social experiment on your phone (The Social Sorting Experiment).
