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TheirTube

Tomo Kihara (JP/NL)

Theirtube is an open-source web service that provides a look into how videos are recommended on other people's YouTube. Users can experience how the YouTube starting page would look for six different personas: Conspiracist, Climate Denier, Conservative, Liberal, Prepper, and Fruitarian.

mEat me

Theresa Schubert (DE)

As an artistic research project, mEat me applies innovative biotechnological advancement beyond a scientific purpose or monetary intent. For the lab process, a serum, gained out of her own blood, was used to reproduce her muscle cells that had previously been extracted. The resulting cultured human meat shifts normative borders and dissolves the consumerist hierarchy between humans and animals.

In a Small Room

KyungJin Jeong (KR)

In a Small Room focuses on two social issues, the first being the problem of poor living conditions in modern metropolitan areas, such as London and Seoul. The demand for housing in large cities, such as London, has greatly increased, but supply has not caught up with demand, a problem that has given rise to a cramped, prison-like residential environment.

The Burst of Things / Where are we standing?

María Ignacia Court (CL), Trinidad Piriz (CL)

The Burst of Things is a sound series that tells the history of Chile’s social movements from the perspective of the objects that shaped them: saucepans, yellow vests, metro turnstiles, face masks, retired police weapons, and the Chilean Constitution. Where are we standing? takes as its starting point the final episode of The Burst of Things and continues the journey of this lost Constitution through the production of a film essay/interactive performance accessible online. We want to explore issues of uncertainty, loss, memory and desire.

!Cartesian Shell

Maja Smrekar (SI), Jonas Jørgensen (DK)

A soft robot with mesh reinforced silicone that morphs and deforms from a flat 2D surface into ever-changing 3-dimensional organic abstract shapes, through the use of pressurized air. Rather than mimicking the abstraction of capital that thrives from all life– through work and force–being directly transformed into (inflated) power, the intercrossing human-dog-AI-robot constellation establishes frames of reference that assert the distributed, networked, and open-ended character of evolution, turning segregation into autonomy and circumventing emergent technologies and their aims.

ELEVENPLAY x Rhizomatiks "border 2021"

MIKIKO (JP), ELEVENPLAY (JP), Daito Manabe (JP), Motoi Ishibashi (JP), Rhizomatiks (JP), Takayuki Fujimoto (JP), evala (JP)

The dance company, ELEVENPLAY, the director-choreographer, MIKIKO, and the collective led by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi, Rhizomatiks, presented a dance piece border in 2015. We developed and updated our experiment of 2015 to establish a new expression model for both online and on-site experience for the post-COVID-19 era.

Face Lab

Håkan Lidbo (SE)

A series of projects exploring the outer limits of how we use our face as an interpreter of our environment—or for the surroundings to find out what is going on in our minds.

The Living Light

Nova Innova (NL)

There is a ground-breaking technology, called Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology. This technology enables us to generate energy from organic waste: from compost to mud, from urine to plants. All organic waste streams are turned into sustainable energy sources thanks to this innovative technology.

Data Garden

Cyrus Clarke (UK), Monika Seyfried (PL), Jeff Nivala (US)

Working with nature to respond to the threat of Data Warming, Data Garden invites visitors to experience a new materiality around data, and explore a world in which data storage is truly green. This type of organism-based data centre is designed to inspire new models that bring principles of working with nature to data, creating regenerative data ecosystems.

Remix el Barrio, Food Waste Biomaterial Makers

Anastasia Pistofidou, Marion Real and The Remixers from Fab Lab Barcelona, IaaC (INT)

In Catalonia alone, every day, 720,000 kg of food is thrown away. This wasted food, totaling 260,000 tons per year, is equivalent to the food needs of 500,000 people for one year. Remix el Barrio was born with the ambition to propose a learning space to encourage and nurture new practices based on food-waste crafts.