{"id":717673,"date":"2026-03-19T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/systemic-racism-ai-bias-dark-rooms-trump-a-memorial-for-gaza-and-more-welcome-to-hypervigilance-cphdoxs-interactive-showcase\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:10:13","slug":"systemic-racism-ai-bias-dark-rooms-trump-a-memorial-for-gaza-and-more-welcome-to-hypervigilance-cphdoxs-interactive-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/systemic-racism-ai-bias-dark-rooms-trump-a-memorial-for-gaza-and-more-welcome-to-hypervigilance-cphdoxs-interactive-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Systemic Racism, AI Bias, Dark Rooms, Trump, a Memorial for Gaza and More: Welcome to \u2018Hypervigilance,\u2019 CPH:DOX\u2019s Inter:Active Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tFor those ready to explore and experience creativity at its intersection with technology<\/a>, the\u00a0Copenhagen\u00a0International\u00a0Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX), is offering a space full of curiosity: its Inter:Active Exhibition at the Danish capital\u2019s Kunsthal Charlottenborg.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt features a curated selection of immersive experiences, educational game<\/a>s, VR offerings, and anything else that doesn\u2019t neatly fit into our traditional understanding of film or TV. This year\u2019s title, \u201cHypervigilance,\u201d feels extra timely and fitting for an age of digital saturation, global unrest, and the rise of authoritarianism, oligarchs and surveillance. <\/p>\n

\n\tOr as Mark Atkin, the curator of CPH:DOX Inter:Active and head of studies at talent development program CPH:LAB, put it when unveiling this year\u2019s program: \u201cThe works expose the collective anxiety of a society on high alert, where we struggle to retain agency over our image, body, and voice. For queer, disabled, and displaced communities, this state of watchfulness is deeply ingrained, a survival instinct in a world built on scrutiny and exclusion. For others, it has become the new norm shaped by 24-hour news<\/a> cycles, extractive capitalism, authoritarian violence, and the pressure to conform in a world where we\u2019re always being watched.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIn this environment, the artists in Hypervigilance look to expose and take on these pressures, looking to wrest back control through activism and defiance, or sexual expression. The 23rd edition of CPH:DOX runs through Sunday.<\/p>\n

\n\tAsked what goes into the curation of a broad-based program like this year\u2019s, Atkin tells THR<\/em>: \u201cThe way this exhibition comes about is through seeing lots and lots of work, talking to artists and other curators, and also people submitting ideas to me through different programs, such as CPH:LAB, an incubation program that I run.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHe may come from the more traditional film and TV world, but has focused on immersive works for a long time now. And his approach differs from that of film programmers. \u201cThe way the exhibition is curated is a little bit more akin to how you curate an art exhibition rather than most film festivals,\u201d Atkin explains. \u201cWe are trying to see what artists are thinking about at the moment, what\u2019s bothering them, and then we draw these threads together, which is why we have the theme<\/a> of hypervigilance this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShares the curator: \u201cI\u2019m really quite interested in stories from people from marginalized groups, because they general<\/a>ly have a lot to say, and this is a documentary festival, so it\u2019s probably even more the case here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSuch groups have long been used to being hypervigilant, but that mindset is something Atkin sees spreading in our time. \u201cWe have works made by people from these marginalized groups in the exhibition, but it also seems as though this state is even more widespread in society now,\u201d he explains. \u201cWe feel that we\u2019re manipulated by unseen forces that we don\u2019t properly understand, but we know that they\u2019re there. I think the general level of hypervigilance is rising across society. And it proved to be quite prescient as bombs are now raining down in the Middle East. It\u2019s pretty much the state that we\u2019re all in right now, globally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat does that mean for the tone of works featured in the Inter:Active exhibition at Copenhagen? \u201cIt\u2019s quite dark,\u201d Atkin tells THR<\/em>. \u201cBut also embedded within each of them is a form of resistance or rebellion, and that rebellion comes either through artistic creation or, in some cases, through sexual liberation. Or through activism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tConcludes the curator: \u201cThere\u2019s also the hope that people, through experiencing these works, many of which are multisensory, will feel much closer to the works as more of a participant than a passive viewer. And we hope that this activates activism in the individuals going through the exhibition as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out brief descriptions of this year\u2019s Inter:Active works below. Of course, to really feel and understand them, you have to experience them yourself. <\/p>\n

\n\tBrains in the State of Suspension<\/em><\/strong>
Kakia Konstantinaki\u00a0
<\/strong>This live performance horror film explores disembodied intelligence, domination, and horror as self-aware brains confront the monstrous consequences of their own drive for control.
\u201cWhat is it like to be a consciousness untethered to any physical thing? A human intelligence in the form of a brain that is dying to dominate a body?\u201d reads an artist statement. \u201cBrains in the State of Suspension<\/em> is a live-performed CGI short film that interweaves liminality, non-linear narrative structures, human intelligence, and horror theory into a single immersive cinematic experience. At its core, the project explores how human intelligence relies on tools like domination and control in order to exist. What happens when human intelligence, historically framed through reason and logic, is strip<\/a>ped from the body and forced to reckon with its own impulses?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCoded Black<\/em><\/strong>
Maisha Wester
This social<\/a> justice game explores the \u201cinsidious and haunting histories\u201d of systemic racism in the U.S. and U.K., revealing stories of racial injustice and Black resilience.
An artist statement describes Coded Black<\/em> as \u201can intensely atmospheric, immersive experience\u201d that also \u201ccelebrates the stories of the unsung revolutionaries who provided light in the darkness.\u201d Drawing from primary sources, historical records, and scholarly analysis,\u00a0Coded Black<\/em>\u00a0offers \u201ca journey through past atrocities and moments of triumph,\u201d via two scenes \u2013 one set on a plantation and on set in a modern 20th-century city. Both are filled with real historical documents and audio-visual storytelling. <\/p>\n

\n\tDark Rooms
<\/em><\/strong>Mads Damsbo and Laurits Flensted-Jensen
The intimate exploration across virtual spaces brings to life real stories of sexual awakening, asking us to move beyond shame and prejudice to experience others\u2019 personal liberation.
\u201cIn a world where sexuality often lingers in the shadows, Dark Rooms<\/em> opens a vivid space for unspoken desires and intimate exploration,\u201d explains an artist statement. \u201cYou are invited to enter four inner spaces of real protagonists as they navigate moments of sexual awakening, confront societal taboos, and embrace their identities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tInside: The Childhood of an Artist
<\/em><\/strong>Sacha Wares
Looking for an evocative multisensory biography? Or curious about experiencing the moment that artist Judith Scott\u2019s life changed forever? If so, go Inside<\/em>!
\u201cFor the first seven years of her childhood, Judith Scott shared a bed with the twin sister who adored her. One night, everything changed,\u201d teases a description of the project. The multisensory biography transports us to a sun-kissed 1950s family home in Ohio, placing us at the heart of Scott\u2019s \u201cdevastating story of love and separation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMy Tent Is Not a Shelter
<\/em><\/strong>Mohamed Jabaly\u00a0
Stitched from the artist\u2019s own clothes, a fragile tent becomes a haunting memorial for Gaza, and \u201ca powerful symbol for people who are still living in tents over the rubble of their destroyed homes,\u201d an online description reads.
\u201cA tent, designed as a temporary shelter, becomes a fragile refuge during the genocide in Gaza, offering no protection from the biting winter cold or falling bombs,\u201d Jabaly highlights in an artist\u2019s statement.\u201d
\u201cMy Tent Is Not a Shelter <\/em>reflects this reality, embodying both resilience and fragility.\u201d In addition to the tent made from the artist\u2019s own clothes, and stitched together by hand, the experience also features video screenings of moments from life in Gaza over the last two years.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo Place at Home
<\/em><\/strong>Sam Wolson and Lilli Carr\u00e9\u00a0
This project focuses on a mother and her trans teen deciding to leave the U.S. after gender-affirming care restrictions.\u201d
\u201cLast January, President Trump signed an executive order restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors,\u201d reads an artists\u2019 statement. \u201cNo Place at Home<\/em> tells the story of a mother, Tina, and her trans teen, J.J., who were living in Maine at the time and, out of concern for J.J.\u2019s well-being, made the difficult decision to leave the United States.\u201d Reported by Wolson over several months and illustrated by Carr\u00e9, the project blends in-depth interviews with Tina and J.J. as they pack up their home, say goodbye to everything they know, and get ready to move to Mexico.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Sanctuary of Dreams<\/em><\/strong>
Pierre-Christophe Gam
<\/em>This project invites audiences into \u201ca collective future-dreaming ritual, where imagination becomes a tool to envision new social, spiritual, and cultural realities shaped by shared human desires.\u201d
Intrigued? Here is more from the artist statement: \u201cThe Sanctuary of Dreams<\/em> is a 44-minute immersive film and multi-sensory installation that forms part of the larger Toguna World research project. Blending speculative storytelling, experimental animation, sound design, and mixed-media collage, the work guides visitors through a poetic future-dreaming ritual.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCelestis Obscura<\/em><\/strong>
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstr\u00f8m
This work aligns the Gold Rush with today\u2019s space race, examining how corporate power in asteroid and lunar exploitation threatens to replicate Earth\u2019s inequalities across the solar system.
An artist\u2019s statement highlights how it \u201cinvestigates the hidden power structures shaping asteroid mining and lunar exploration. As private corporations push toward extracting cosmic resources, the work asks: Who owns the resources of space? Which power dynamics determine who is allowed to exploit them?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the Current of Being<\/em><\/strong>
Cameron Kostopoulos
This one is a haptic VR experience chronicling the harrowing journey of a survivor of electroshock conversion therapy.
The artist\u2019s statement highlights that it tells the true story of Carolyn Mercer, \u201cwho survived electroshock treatment as a child; a procedure that attempted to \u2018correct\u2019 her gender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTales of a Nomadic City<\/em><\/strong>
Med Lemine Rajel and Christian Vium
This VR experience, co-created with Nouakchott youth, artists, poets, and scholars, weaves personal stories, archives, and immersive sound to portray the complex history and ongoing urban transformation of Mauritania\u2019s capital.
\u201cIntegrating contemporary everyday scenes, rare historical archives and an ambeosonic sound design, the experience reveals the layered and multifaceted history of Nouakchott, providing a remarkable portrait of urban transformation,\u201d the artists explain. experience is developed with local citizens: youth, artists, poets, students, and scholars who bring to life authentic everyday experiences and personal stories through workshops.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Pledge<\/em><\/strong>
Daniela Nedovescu and Octavian Mot
This interactive installation turns encounters with AI bias into \u201ca collective digital monument.\u201d
Explain the artists: \u201cParticipants face a camera as an AI analyzes their appearance and generates a personalized statement, a pledge, rooted in the machine\u2019s biases.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Lost Golden Lotus<\/em><\/strong>
Chisato Minamimura
This installation \u201creimages China\u2019s foot-binding legacy through multisensory art and Deaf-led performance, connecting historical beauty ideals to today\u2019s exacting body standards.\u201d
Says the artist about the collaboration with Alice Hu Xiaoshu in China: \u201cThis collaborative project invites audiences into a world shaped by beauty and pain, where projected film, scent, taste, and tactile soundscapes converge to unearth the hidden histories of the \u2018three-inch golden lotus,\u2019 once a symbol of femininity and social status, now a site of reflection, resistance, and cultural contemplation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBurden of Other People\u2019s Dreams: Chapter One \u2013 Ganymede<\/em><\/strong>
Joe Bini
Yes, this \u201clive cinema experience\u201d is from THAT Joe Bini, whose career as an editor has includee collaborations with Werner Herzog, Andrea Arnold and many others. But this one is a completely different beast.
One person at a time gets to sit in a room with an iPad, a screen and loudspeakers for an 80-minute surreal experience mixing book, film and your imagination. What is it about? The abstract memoir of Bini\u2019s life as a film editor and storyteller.
The artist statement puts it this way: \u201cBurden of Other People\u2019s Dreams: Chapter One \u2013 Ganymede <\/em>is a story told by an author who refuses to be an author, so they try to convince you that you are the author. Which is ridiculous, since clearly you\u2019re the reader. But then it turns into a film and suddenly you\u2019re a viewer. Which is even more ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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