A lively, interactive digital area that enables you to checkout and experience 14 works at the cutting edge of audiovisual art.
In 2022’s Future Shock exhibit, curated by Fact and 180 Studios, visitors checkedout a belowground area that included work from artists and collectives working at the cutting edge of digital innovation. A year after its launch, and with the aid of one of the artists included – Aphex Twin partner Weirdcore – anybody in the world can delightin the exhibit thanks to a virtual analysis of the program.
Using product shot, scanned and rebuilded from the initial exhibit by Weirdcore, this spirited, interactive website brings together all 16 works from the reveal, which included Ryoichi Kurokawa, Caterina Barbieri, Actual Objects, United Visual Artists, GENER8ION (aka Romain Gavras and Surkin), Gaika, Tundra, Ben Kelly & Scanner, NONOTAK and things blue & Natalia Podgórska.
Future Shock was initially staged at London’s 180 Studios from April to August 2022, and took its name from the influential 1970s book by American futurologist Alvin Toffler, which anticipated the methods in which the speed and scope of technological modification might cause “shattering tension and disorientation.” The artists included reacted to this concept in a widerange of methods, from Weirdcore’s disorientating analysis of lucid dreaming to Actual Objects’ immersive setup Vicky, which informs the story of a future catastrophe through several perspectives.
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