Victorine van Alphen is an award winning transmedia artist, philosopher and curator fascinated by the tension between the sensual and rational \u2013 between \u2018senses & systems\u2019 \u2013 in our technologized human existence. With her work, she makes the underlying, perhaps untenable contradictions between \u2018natural\u2019 versus \u2018artificial\u2019, and \u2018material\u2019 versus \u2018immaterial\u2019 tangible. With \u2018IVF-X: Posthuman Parenting in Hybrid reality\u2019 she won a Golden Calf in 2021 and exhibited worldwide at Kaohsiung Film Festival (TW), New Images Paris, and Mix Brasil (Queer Film Festival) and was part of the exhibition Reproduction Otherwise in MU Hybrid Art House. Her work transcends disciplinary boundaries, genres and cultural conventions.<\/p>\n
As an artistic researcher she researched and taught her method \u201cchoreographing modes of being\u201d at various academies, including the Master of Film and Immersive Media department at the Film Academy in Amsterdam and at the Universit\u00e4t der K\u00fcnste in Berlin: in this phenomenological experimental method the immersant and the many sensory, social and political dimensions and the dynamics between senses and meanings of the experience.<\/p>\n
Research question<\/strong>
\nDuring the Vrijplaats, Victorine van Alphen investigates the (immersive\/transmedial) possibilities of the current, future most unconscious forms and technologies of manipulation. And how far we can\/want to go in this.<\/p>\n