SMALL Talks: Mikael Fock

Throughout 2023, THIS Conference and Kunsthal Spritten invite you to a series of SMALL talks on art and visual storytelling. We’ve invited artists and creatives to share insights into the production of art, film and digital culture in an age of rapid change and powerful new technologies. At THIS and Kunsthal Spritten, we share a passion for art in an expanded, digital field. With the SMALL talks series, we explore the intersection of artistic production, technology and popular digital culture. Our aim is to spark exchange and share knowledge across genres while offering a platform for exciting new producers and future-facing voices in our brave new digital culture. We are proud to present art tech developer and theatre director Mikael Fock as part of our SMALL talks on 10 May.

PROGRAMME:

19.00 – Doors open at Studenterhuset Aalborg

19.30 – Live stream starts

19.30 – SMALL talk with Mikael Fock

20.00 – Q&A

Mikael Fock is a director of performing arts and has worked in many theatres in Denmark and abroad, developing and directing theatre, modern dance, performance, concerts, children’s theatre and large-scale music theatre productions, as well as some of Denmark’s biggest national events. Fock is also a director and producer of short films, television and exhibitions.

Art and technology development is a major driving force for Mikael Fock, who is also one of the founders of the art and technology performance company VISION.4 and, recently, Mikael Fock Productions.

Both companies have been pioneers in developing and producing performances in the field where video design, digital art, new media art and hybrid performance intersect. Fock has developed the digital stage known as 4D box, directing and producing the opening for the performance biennial Performa 05 New York, USA with True Love is yet to Come, The Miracle 2004, The Third Tango, Chronicle of LightYear 2017, SH4D0W, as well as AI versus Human, performed at Dunkers Kulturhus Helsingborg, Ars Electronica 2022, Aveny T 2023, Teatro del Canal Madrid 2023, DA Festival Sofia 2023, and Digital Art Festival DELFT 2024.