Festival Archive - ERIKA KASSNEL-HENNEBERG

Sleepy Eye Film Festival

Posted on 20/01/2026 | by Erika

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6. to 14.02.26, Den Hague

Opening: 6 februari 2026 at 8 pm @ …ism project space (Westeinde 31A)
Open daily during the festival from 8 pm to midnight.
Here you can also pick up the programme guide, drinks and snacks.

From 450 Submissions only 15 works have been selected!

“From Friday 6 to Saturday 14 February, Westeinde will come to life with film screenings that share surprising visual stories every day from 8 p.m. until late at night. Westeinde will be temporarily transformed into a walk-through cinema. Shop fronts, homes and workspaces will be turned into film screens, giving historic facades a new purpose. Contemporary video works by international artists will be projected silently from the inside onto the windows and facades of historic buildings. The films refer directly or indirectly to the night, the city, cinema and everything that takes place in the shadows of everyday reality. During Sleepy Eyes, attention is briefly diverted, time is frozen, and the gaze is slowed down or accelerated. For a moment, the public space becomes an intimate place for one’s own thoughts and personal experiences.”

https://ismprojects.wordpress.com/

Reviews: https://chmkoome.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/sleepy-eyes-filmfestival/

FILE 2025

Posted on 09/04/2025 | by Erika

July 15th to September 7th, 2025

Fiesp Cultural Center on Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil

Foto: Camila P – FILE SP 2025 SYNTHETIKA

“Unlike Hegel, who called the set of ideas of a given era the “spirit of the times” (Zeitgeist), we could call our era “Zeitsynthetik” (the time of the synthetic). In the classical period, art was inseparable from religion, whose essence was spirituality; in modernity, spirituality was replaced by the ideologies of grand narratives (capitalism and socialism). The classical arts invented poetics and aesthetics: the beautiful and the sublime. Modern art invented the avant-garde, which proposed itself as revolutionary; its driving force was the dialectic of the new without the old, while postmodernists, on the other hand, mixed everything with everything, including the old with the new. Today we live in the age of synthetic technologies, the age of disruptive technologies. In which the new of modernity is no longer sufficient or surprising. Syntheticity is the new vector: synthetic algorithms; synthetic virtual realities; synthetic intelligences. The driving force behind synthetic art is now: 1) the fusion of new artistic expression and technological innovation, and 2) the inter-creativity between the artist and artificial creativity. Prompt engineers strategically simulate personas for AIs to move beyond triviality and thus achieve more creative results. Synthetic intelligences are no longer just instruments, but partners with artists in building a creative and innovative symbiosis.

Art and culture go through a moment in which creativity ceases to be only human, it becomes artificial; syntheticity thus prospects a post-culture, a new FORM: the form SYNTHETIKA.” _{from: Catalog}

https://file.org.br/highlight/synthetika-festival-internacional-de-linguagem-eletronica-arte-e-tecnologia/

https://www.instagram.com/filefestival

Video AI category

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Arte e Tecnologia

Erika Kassnel-Henneberg – DEEP PAULA – Alemanha

Vanitas to-go

Posted on 12/06/2023 | by Erika

Start ► Festival

Interaction with the audience

Idea:
I invite visitors to take home their own portrait photo based on a baroque vanitas subject (vanitas, Latin for “vanity”).

What’s behind it?
We resurrect the baroque vanitas motif! The audience poses with a skull (-model) in front of my camera and can take the resulting Polaroid – a real work of art – home immediately for a fee.