Floris Kaayk

The Modular Body is Dutch multimedia artist and filmmaker Floris Kaayk’s latest foray into the realm of online storytelling. Created in collaboration with journalist and artist Ine Poppe, The Modular Body recounts the story of bio-technologist Cornelis Vlasman and his very own, miniature Frankenstein, OSCAR, the world’s first living organism built from human cells. Told through an intricate web of 56 interconnected videos, each clip, whether video blog update or news report, reveals another intimate detail of the OSCAR puzzle. The Modular Body follows in the footsteps of Human Birdwings and Rayfish Footwear, toying with the ways in which information, fact or fiction, is consumed and disseminated across the internet. But where the earlier projects presented themselves as marvels of scientific discovery, The Modular Body is explicitly a fanciful work of science fiction.

Innovator and artist Floris Kaayk will be interviewed by Pauline Dresscher about his way of storytelling. What made him choose certain forms of telling a story, using different platforms and mixing fake and real stories. He will demonstrate his vision on interactive storytelling by showing the projects he has developed over the years such as Human Birdwings and The Modular Body up to current new research.