Kontejner

All the works in the exhibition have been produced in the framework of the European platform dedicated to media art (EMAP – European Media Art Platform), bringing together fifteen European and one visiting world organization and institution specialised in media, bio and robotic art. Through a residency programme for emerging European artists, EMAP produces and distributes over forty complex new works in a three-year period.

These art projects explore exciting and innovative ways of interacting with the natural environment, rethinking the human body as a resource of materials and energy for recycling, as well as an important link in evolutionary survival once the anticipated changes on Earth have come to pass.

By experimenting with the collective habitat, the artists pose the question of sustainability and adaptation, encouraging reflection on future forms of social organisation. In addition, the digital expansion of the human family and the development of smart communication interfaces open up spaces for reflection on the impact of technology on interpersonal relationships. The concepts, models and theories the artists present in their works, though poetic and grounded in fiction and imagination, provide novel, fresh perspectives on life and the world. Creatively employing and interpreting a theoretical or scientific framework, and transposing archives of historical knowledge and current technological possibilities into futuristic visions, they engender sensorially rich, immersive and comprehensive insights, pointing to the interconnectedness of biological, philosophical, ecological, social and political spheres.