Polymorf

🌱 Experience 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖 at Centraal Laat X Impakt X Queer Ecology 🌱 We are very excited to have our project included in this special program for for anyone who is curious about how humans, nature and technology are intertwined. Expect an evening full of media and digital art, performances and conversations, inviting you to see, listen and think differently. 📆 12 February 2026 📍 Centraal Museum @centraalmuseum Utrecht 🕕 18:00-22:30 🎟️ via link in bio 🍀 Blending visual poetry with ecological thought, Polymorf’s 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖 is a participatory AR experience that invites you to shape and rethink what nature could be – a collective reflection on how we live within the natural world. Future Botanica is a Polymorf and Studio Biarritz production
Designed by @polymorf.nl , Marcel Van Brakel and Hazal Erturkan
Commissioned by: MU Hybrid Art Space @mu_hybrid_art_house  
Supported by: The Creative Industries Fund Digital Culture and Fentener van Vlissingen Fund and the Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant. 
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Very honerd to be part of Dubai Future Furum with Future Botanica. Love from Marcel and Mark and the Polymorf team. FB is a Polymorf & Studio Biarritz Production, created by Polymorf. Directed by Marcel van Brakel and Hazal Ertürkan.

✨ Exhibition at the Art Museum in Bélem (MABE), pitching session at IDFA Amsterdam, our project Amasonic is off to a fantastic start! ✨ “Amasonic” is an XR experience where the user can experience different (non)human perspectives on the Amazon River gathered by local communities and scientists, while exploring the installation, users compose a sonification, translating their interaction and co-existence with the river echoing the multitude of life connected to the Amazon River. Last week our own Corine Meijers and Marcel van Brakel (@polymorf.nl ) travelled to Brazil and set up the Amasonic presence in the VAZIOsobreTERRA exhibition. VAZIOsobreTERRA proposes a sensitive and political dialogue around the impacts of large-scale mining on local, national, and global levels, with a particular attention to the territories and bodies of the Global South. It’s a collaborative project presented by Initiatives of Change USA, Collective WEBS, Instituto Casa Constelar Ancestral Janeraka, MABE (Museu de Arte de Belém), and ART AFRICA, in partnership with a wide network of institutions, collectives, communities, and initiatives that believe in art and culture as tools for transformation and regeneration. 📆 10 November 2025 - 9 February 2026 📍MABE (Museu de Arte de Belém) @mabepaoficial We are so very excited and thankful for this opportunity. And very curious what the next step - the presentation during IDFA @idfafestival - will bring. Credits: Director: Marcel van Brakel, Cecilia Oliveira @cecibatuke Created by: Marcel van Brakel for @polymorf.nl Cecilia Oliveira, Corine Meijers for Studio Biarritz Key collaborator: German Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ @gfz_potsdam , Brazilian Mamiraua Institute for Sustainable Development @institutomamiraua Jorge Menezes Production: Corine Meijers for Studio Biarritz Pitch team: Corine Meijers, Cecilia Oliveira #idfa #VAZIOsobreTERRA

🌿 Come experience Future Botanica at BFI London Film Festival 🌿 During 9 and 19 October you can enjoy our striking and multi-layered installation. You can collaborate with AI to plant speculative ecosystems into future landscapes and watch new forms of nature bloom before your eyes. Blending visual poetry with ecological thought, Polymorf’s Future Botanica is a participatory AR experience that invites you to shape and rethink what nature could be – a collective reflection on how we live within the natural world. 🎟️ This is a FREE, drop-in event, with no need to book. Just turn up to BFI IMAX Foyer from 9 to 19 October. Entry is on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to capacity. @britishfilminstitute Future Botanica is a Polymorf and Studio Biarritz production
Designed by @polymorf.nl , Marcel Van Brakel and Hazal Erturkan
Commissioned by: MU Hybrid Art Space @mu_hybrid_art_house  
Supported by: The Ceative Industries Fund Digital Culture and Fentener van Vlissingen Fund and the Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant.

🎉 Future Botanica selected for a Golden Calf for Digital Culture at Netherlands Film Festival 2025 🎥 See you at @nederlandsfilmfestival ! We are so very excited! Massive congratulations to the entire team! 👏❤️ The project premiered at MU Hybrid Art Space, in Eindhoven and IDFA doclab, competition Digital Storytelling, in Amsterdam. @mu_hybrid_art_house @idfadoclab It had its international premiere in the XR exhibition and competition at SXSW 2025, Austin, Texas. @sxsw . Future Botanica is a Polymorf and Studio Biarritz production
 Designed by @polymorf.nl , Marcel van Brakel and Hazal Erturkan 
Commissioned by: MU Hybrid Art Space @mu_hybrid_art_house 
Supported by: The Ceative Industries Fund Digital Culture and Fentener van Vlissingen Fund and the Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant. 💡Small reminder that from July 12 until 7 September you can experience our Future Botanica installation right at Noorderlicht, in Groningen! @noorderlichtphotography 🗓️ 12.07-07.09 2025 📍 Noorderlicht, Akerkhof 12, Groningen

Team Future Botanica presented at the epic 2025 edition of @sxsw . Thanks for all the beautiful and energetic reactions to Future Botanica. It was a blast seeing 'future botanists' grow and care for their newly created plants. We've returned to the lowlands now. See you all soon!

Camille & Ulysse screens as part of the 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀 program on Wednesday, March 19. Filmmaker @dianatoucedo and Symbiosis director @vbrakel will come together after the screening, for a conversation on storytelling and translating Donna Haraway’s writing into their multi-species scenarios for today’s world. 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 & 𝗨𝗹𝘆𝘀𝘀𝗲 In 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦 & 𝘜𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦, filmmaker @dianatoucedo brings to life the intertwined tales of two symbiogenic communities. Camille adopts butterfly traits to help her study the endangered North American monarch butterfly, while on the coast of Naples, Ulysse explores ways of living together with extinct octopuses, in preparation for their unlikely return. A speculative journey through a damaged planet, where humans and non-humans learn to live in new, transformative ways.

At the heart of the five-day Shaping Bonds program is @polymorf.nl ’s award-winning multisensory VR installation, Symbiosis. 📅 From Wednesday 19 to Sunday 23 March. Book your 45-minute timeslot through the link in bio or at idfa.nl/paviljoen! ABOUT SYMBIOSIS Symbiosis is a multiuser and multisensory VR experience that redesigns the human body. Participants of the installation become both spectators and performers during a 45-minute exploration. Blending VR with theatre and philosophy, Symbiosis immerses you in a world where humans, animals, and technology form unique, symbiotic bonds. By selecting a story, each person steps into a character and takes on a role within the unfolding narrative. As the adventure progresses, everyone plays a part in each other's lives and when it all culminates, the characters come together come together to join in a shared food experience, with snacks crafted by @karpendonksehoeve . Symbiosis is designed and produced by @polymorf.nl in collaboration with @studiobiarritznl .

We’re thrilled to announce that Future Botanica will be on show from February 7 in Leiden as part of the Planten & Planeten exhibition at Hortus Botanicus! 🌱✨ Explore the intersection of nature, science, and art while celebrating life on Earth. This immersive exhibition offers a glimpse into the past, present, and future of our planet. More info via the link in bio!

The word is out! Future Botanica will be at @sxsw in March! With this international premiere of Future Botanica, POLYMORF presents a AR experience where users can design future nature within speculative ecosystems, by using an app with generative AI systems the user can explore their relationship with nature. Future Botanica connects digital nature to various physical locations and forms of nature. It serves as a growing database of new life forms, future speculations, and stories about nature created with and by people. In Future Botanical, the user becomes a planter, designing an ecosystem with non-existent digital plants and organisms and planting them in the existing physical nature. This act plants ideas, concepts, and stories about how we perceive future nature. Using AR and AI, the current state of nature blends with designs, ideas, stories, and speculations about the future state of the location. As a user/planter, you can play and learn how ecosystems work, experiencing and envisioning the future. Future Botanica is a Polymorf and Studio Biarritz production, Designed by Polymorf and Studio Bleu. Commissioned by: MU Hybrid Art House (@mu_hybrid_art_house ). Supported by: The Creative Industries Fund Digital Culture and Fentener van Vlissingen Fund and the Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant together with IDFA DocLab (@idfadoclab ). And special partner Tripo AI.

#festivaldump We joined a playroom about AI, where we shared tools and strategies to work creatively with ai. Together with other art projects in the @idfadoclab selection like About A Hero by @winiewicz and @madsdamsbo , Drift by @wzzzt , @hayify and @liev and Oryza by @tamarashogaolu we showed a participating audience how ai is weaved into the art. 📷 @lucianopinna351

It is the last weekend for Future Botanica @idfadoclab . Come design your own plants 🌿 📍 Staalstraat 7, Amsterdam Bring your own iPhone or bij borrow one from the gallery to experience Future Botanica 📷 @lucianopinna351