Speculative Ecologies in XR Art
Sky Fine Foods (Toronto) and
peer to space (Berlin) jointly present
Seed Systems: Speculative Ecologies in XR Art.
The hybrid exhibition shows new virtual and augmented reality works by Alison Bennett (AUS), Nicholas Delap (UK), Matthew D. Gantt (US), Mohsen Hazrati (IRN/DE), Nadine Kolodziey (DE) and Lauren Moffatt (AUS/DE).
Curated by
Miriam Arbus (Sky Fine Foods) and
Peggy Schoenegge (peer to space), these XR artworks lend a critical edge to neo-ecologies, inviting visitors to interact with new digital media and participate in an exchange of ideas and discourse around potential futures. Inspired by gardens as carefully constructed spaces of experience and encounter, the exhibition considers how new media can reimagine ecological systems and facilitate a mindful, inclusive future.
Grappling with these topics, the XR art exhibition Seed Systems emerges as collaborative cultivation. Six international artists use augmented and virtual realities to explore speculative approaches to future human-nature relationships, forming a spatial and sonic occurrence of growth and foliage. They unite their expertise in virtual world-building and plant knowledge, shaping alternative ecologies and biologies. Activated in XR through computer-generated images (CGI), animation, point clouds and interactions, the digital biosphere – nourished by visions – grows as a space for meeting and reflection. In this speculative approach, new possibilities for action, caretaking, and reciprocity flourish, visualizing a necessary change in perspective.
Initiated by STYLY, this project is supported by Radiance.
Special pre-Nuit Blanche opening night 21 September, 6:30-8:30pm!
Miriam Arbus has a practice interested in issues that intersect around new media and digital technologies, post-internet and post-digital existences, and new feminisms. She investigates the shifting geographies of new realities and landscapes and the potential this offers for openness and equalizing representation. Her practice has taken form most frequently in curatorial pursuits: organizing conceptually driven exhibitions and participatory experiences that are responsive and relational. Miriam completed a Master’s degree in Art History at the University of Toronto, with a focus on contemporary theory and practice. She was the director and head curator of the Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne, Australia, for five years. As co-founder of the Sleepover Club Initiative, she participated in the Australia Research Council Project Norma Redpath House residency Doing Feminism/Sharing the World.
Peggy Schoenegge (she/her) is an independent curator, writer and project manager at peer to space as well as chairwoman of the media art association in Berlin. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Art History from Humboldt University Berlin and Technical University Berlin and spent a year at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. Her work deals with the conditions and challenges of digitalization and its effects on our everyday life, society and culture. Specifically, she addresses gender, performance, and artificial intelligence by curating digital art, internet art and art with new media such as VR or AR in both real and virtual exhibition spaces. She gives lectures and participates in panel discussions internationally at conferences and events such as the VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival, WISE Conference and for the Goethe-Institut. She currently teaches at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany, in expanded reality.
Part of the Goethe-Institut focus on Climate Resilience
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