The Shape of Things to Come

A mixed reality (XR) exhibition on [u|dys]topian approximations of the human habitat

Die in The Shape of Things to Come präsentierten Arbeiten sind eine Sammlung futuristischer Szenarien, die von Wissenschaftler*innen und Künstler*innen des Vienna BioCenter (VBC), des CeMM Forschungszentrums für Molekulare Medizin, des Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) und der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien stammen. Dieses Projekt ist eine heterogene Darstellung der Art und Weise, wie sich Expert*innen aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen die Veränderungen unserer Umwelt in der Zukunft vorstellen und zukünftige Veränderungen unserer Umwelt umfassend bewerten und beeinflussen.

The Shape of Things to Come
Credit: tom mesic

The Shape of Things to Come
Credit: tom mesic

The Shape of Things to Come
Credit: tom mesic

The Shape of Things to Come
Credit: tom mesic

The Shape of Things to Come
Credit: tom mesic

The Shape of Things to Come
Credit: tom mesic

The Shape of Things to Come
Credit: tom mesic

The Shape of Things to Come
Credit: tom mesic

The Shape of Things to Come
Credit: tom mesic

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The Cycle of Creation and Destruction

Joel Hancock (UK)

The dystopian future painted in The Cycle of Creation and Destruction, inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Nightfall, evolves around the hypothesis that random movement, even seemingly directed human behavior will converge on states comfortable for the organism.

On Living Matter

Luis Miguel Cerron (PE), Michelle Huth (UK), Laura Santini (IT)

The major advances in biology and the development of new genetic tools in the last decades confront us with questions of how to use them properly and responsibly.

Interacting Particles

Julia Naas (DE)

In the last decades high-resolution microscopy revolutionized not only the scope of biological applications, but also called for suitable adaptations of existing image analysis methods in order to maximize the information that can be retrieved. At the same time, 3D microscopy techniques and multi-color measurements have attracted a lot of attention since they allow for an even broader range and complexity of simultaneous measurements.

On the Topology of Synthetic Organs

Keisuke Ishihara (JP)

The organs in our body have a complex internal architecture consisting of tubes and loops. The heart, the brain, and the kidney all distribute information and material through the network of tubes and loops. How do organ form and function emerge from a small group of cells? How can we engineer 3d organ morphology and expand existing organ functions?

Protein Landscapes

Sebastian Falk (DE)

Proteins are the building blocks of life. How they interact determines the performance of our whole organism.

Periods of Space

Thomas Hochwallner (AT)

Periods of Space is an experimental artistic approach towards spatial perception and perspective working with 3D camera tracking and digital collaging methods.

The Sound of Neuronal Morphologies

Mehmet Can Ucar (TR)

The project The Sound of Neuronal Morphologies studies and models self-organizational tree network structures in the context of neuronal cells.

Taming Entropy: From Chaos to Order Through a Vortex of Data

Stephan Reichl (AT), Anna Kusienicka (PL), Christoph Bock (DE), Matthias Farlik (AT)

The project The Sound of Neuronal Morphologies studies and models self-organizational tree network structures in the context of neuronal cells.

Rendezvous in my dreams

Shahab Nedaei (IR)

Where am I? I follow the sirens through the streets. I arrive. Drenched in sweat in my bed. Night after night.

Networks explain the Multiverse of Data

Stephan Reichl (AT)

Cancer therapies and their success depend on various factors. The approach towards immune checkpoint inhibitors provided novel therapeutic options for patients. However, developing resistance remains a challenge

Dom_Ino

Rafael Ludescher (AT), Shahab Nedaei (IR)

It’s ironic that one can be more at peace in the virtual world than in the real one. How concepts, thoughts, time and space bend only to the personal perception of fiction. Well, Buddha clearly didn’t think that we took his teachings that we establish our own reality quite literally and shape a world that only bends to will and ambitions.

Zwischenwelten

Dominik Grünbühel (AT), Norbert Unfug (AT)

Zwischenwelten creates a space beyond the classifications of reality as we are used to it. While wandering through semi-closed spaces, the observer experiences a new, unknown flexibility of transformation of space.

The VRNetzer

The MencheLab (AT)

Through the VRNetzer platform scientists can visually and intuitively gain insights into complex data, consisting of entities and links in between them, represented as networks for an immersive data visualization and exploration endeavor leading towards the future of data analysis.

Biography

Credits

Jörg Menche (DE), Sebastian Pirch (AT), Martin Chiettini (AT), Christiane Hütter (AT), Anna Hakobyan (AM), Joel Hancock (UK)