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Self-Matter explores self-organizing physical processes to create materials with emergent lifelike features. The exhibition presents installations and a performance that showcase current scientific research that blurs matter and intelligence. Through simple interactions between common substances, Self-Matter offers a perspective for more symbiotic futures.

Can there be a correct way to perceive this world when every sentient being experiences it differently?sense & sense-abilities explores this question by presenting intimate, collective and research-based artistic perspectives to understand human relations beyond words. Five artworks by Bauhaus University, Weimar students reflect on navigating a technologized world, delving into the complexities of perception…

Material Materials dives into familiar physical materials/objects and their potential for building future interactive artifacts. Overarching all the five interactive experiences is a challenge to the conventional perspective and relationships between user, designer and object; dissolving the boundaries between these roles.

Interactive and video installations from students of the Interactive Technologies for Performing and Media Arts MA program at UNATC Bucharest. Late-capitalist themes of eco-anxiety and mass commodification are explored in an urgent yet playful way.

Making-with features projects from this year’s MA Interaction Design cohort that demystify our relationship with the environment through decentralized narratives in which our more-than-human cohabitants take precedence. Engaging with these new systems of thinking, audiences have the opportunity to explore the embodiment of crisis and survival, of decay and regeneration.

“Imaginary” here refers here to the “faculty of radical innovation,” i.e. the capacity to generate new meanings through various artificial mechanisms. Technology is employed here both as a means of production and as a philosophical framework in installations conceived at the confluence between art and science, speaking equally about our uncertain future and our reliable…