UBERMORGEN (AT/CH) · Kin>% / Cultura Plasmic INC (UK) · TZUSOO (KR) · Andrei Nacu (UK/RO) · Sillyconductor (RO)

 

Curated by Adrian Bojenoiu

 

12 September – 11 October 2026

CASA / Center for Arts and Science in Action, Tudor Arghezi 44, Bucharest

 

What happens when technology is no longer simply a tool we use, but becomes an environment through which those who own and control it begin to set their own conditions for the present and the future?

 

Xeno Futurism is an exhibition about the relationship between technology, the imagination of the future, and the human condition. The project starts from an increasingly present reality: the future is being imagined and constructed through technological systems, algorithms, computational models, and new forms of social and political organisation. Many of these transformations, however, are taking place at a speed and on a scale that exceed individual experience.

 

The exhibition explores the gap between the speed at which certain technological developments are advancing, the way socio-economic relations are being transformed, and the ability of people to understand and participate in these changes.

 

The invited artists work with digital images, artificial intelligence, software, data, sound, and transdisciplinary research. Their practices do not attempt to provide a definitive image of the future, but rather to test scenarios, systems, and forms of existence that are already emerging.

 

An important concept in the project is the “xenotic”, something that appears foreign or different, but does not necessarily come from outside. In this case, the “stranger” may be produced by a particular form of technological development itself: who creates these systems, and for what purpose? Their consequences and modes of operation are becoming increasingly difficult to control, anticipate, or determine through democratic processes.

 

In this context, art can function as a testing ground. It does not simply represent technological change, but creates situations in which these changes can be observed, simulated, and questioned.

 

Graphic design: Ami Lungu


Parteneri: ICMA – Institutul de Cercetare Multidisciplinară în Arte, ARC Gestaltung, Revista ARTA.

 

Supported by : ECOTIC, Ateliere fără frontiere

 

Cultural project co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration.The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the manner in which the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.

UBERMORGEN (AT/CH) · Kin>% / Cultura Plasmic INC (UK) · TZUSOO (KR) · Andrei Nacu (UK/RO) · Sillyconductor (RO)

 

Curated by Adrian Bojenoiu

 

12 September – 11 October 2026

CASA / Center for Arts and Science in Action, Tudor Arghezi 44, Bucharest

 

What happens when technology is no longer simply a tool we use, but becomes an environment through which those who own and control it begin to set their own conditions for the present and the future?

 

Xeno Futurism is an exhibition about the relationship between technology, the imagination of the future, and the human condition. The project starts from an increasingly present reality: the future is being imagined and constructed through technological systems, algorithms, computational models, and new forms of social and political organisation. Many of these transformations, however, are taking place at a speed and on a scale that exceed individual experience.

 

The exhibition explores the gap between the speed at which certain technological developments are advancing, the way socio-economic relations are being transformed, and the ability of people to understand and participate in these changes.

 

The invited artists work with digital images, artificial intelligence, software, data, sound, and transdisciplinary research. Their practices do not attempt to provide a definitive image of the future, but rather to test scenarios, systems, and forms of existence that are already emerging.

 

An important concept in the project is the “xenotic”, something that appears foreign or different, but does not necessarily come from outside. In this case, the “stranger” may be produced by a particular form of technological development itself: who creates these systems, and for what purpose? Their consequences and modes of operation are becoming increasingly difficult to control, anticipate, or determine through democratic processes.

 

In this context, art can function as a testing ground. It does not simply represent technological change, but creates situations in which these changes can be observed, simulated, and questioned.

 

Graphic design: Ami Lungu


Parteneri: ICMA – Institutul de Cercetare Multidisciplinară în Arte, ARC Gestaltung, Revista ARTA.

 

Supported by : ECOTIC, Ateliere fără frontiere

 

Cultural project co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration.The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the manner in which the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.