Future Room
participative fulldome installation
2017
“The future is what you make of it! We cannot foresee the future, but we can shape it.” According to this motto, the Future Room provides thought and visions for the future. It is a virtual knowledge space that shows us imagined futures in which visitors can interact via a voice recognition system. The work takes the form of thirteen information clouds visualized in an immersive dome environment. Visitors are invited to choose one of the themes by speaking into a microphone. This sets off the screening corresponding to their choice: Artificial Intelligence, Education, Energy, Evolution, Finance, Genome Editing/ CripsR, Information, Quantum Physics, Migration, Politics, Religion, Urbanisation or Work. Encapsulated in a cloud of information, the future will only be visible where we strive to imagine it. The Future Room is a participative fulldome installation. Metaphor for a predicting machine, it displays a set of questions, pieces of information, and visions of the near future of our society. The Future Room is both utopia and dystopia.
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- Understanding Art & Research, Museum for Applied Arts MAK, Vienna, AT, 2018 / © Birgit und Peter Kainz
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- Society for Arts and Technology, Montreal, CA, 2018 / © Sebastien Roy
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- Society for Arts and Technology, Montreal, CA, 2018 / © Sebastien Roy
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- Society for Arts and Technology, Montreal, CA, 2018 / © Sebastien Roy
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- Understanding Art & Research, Museum for Applied Arts MAK, Vienna, AT, 2018 / © Birgit und Peter Kainz
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- Understanding Art & Research, Museum for Applied Arts MAK, Vienna, AT, 2018 / © Birgit und Peter Kainz
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- Understanding Art & Research, Museum for Applied Arts MAK, Vienna, AT, 2018
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- Understanding Art & Research, Museum for Applied Arts MAK, Vienna, AT, 2018
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- Understanding Art & Research, Museum for Applied Arts MAK, Vienna, AT, 2018
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- Understanding Art & Research, Museum for Applied Arts MAK, Vienna, AT, 2018
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- Understanding Art & Research, Museum for Applied Arts MAK, Vienna, AT, 2018 / © exile productions
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- Society for Arts and Technology, Montreal, CA, 2018 / © Sebastien Roy
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- Society for Arts and Technology, Montreal, CA, 2018 / © Sebastien Roy
Credits
Artistic concept: Martin Kusch, Ruth Schnell
Artistic direction: Martin Kusch
3D-Visualization: Johannes Hucek, Martin Kusch, Malte Niedringhaus
3D-Modelling and Animation: Malte Niedringhaus
Digital voices composition: Alexandre St-Onge, Marie-Claude Poulin
Choreography: Marie-Claude Poulin
Programming: Johannes Hucek
Sound wave and ambisonic programming: Patrik Lechner
Collaboration: Laurus Edelbacher
Commission:
Gerald Bast, Peter Weibel
Co-production:
SAVATAP, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
With the support of:
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec,
Canada Council for the Arts
Exhibitions / Shows
2021 Understanding Art & Research (Remote Edition), BAC Art Center, Shanghai / CN
2020 Ars Electronica Festival 2020, in Kepler’s Gardens, JKU Campus, Linz, AT
2019 Openings festival, Vienna / AT
2019 Understanding Art & Research, UCLA, Los Angeles / USA
2018 Understanding Art & Research, Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna / AT
2018 Understanding Art & Research, NTU, Singapore / SG
2018 Society for Arts and Technology, Montreal / CA
2018 Aesthetics of Change Exhibition, Museum for Applied Arts MAK, Vienna, AT