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In virtual space visionary designs and fictional scenarios for architecture and urban planning can be imagined without the limitations of the real world.
10.5.2023—10.9.2023
Upper Exhibition Hall
Design techniques such as renderings and AI algorithms are becoming ever more popular. Computational tools have not only revolutionized the design process and concept development in architecture and design, but also expanded our cultural, social, political, and aesthetic understanding of how we shape, experience, and navigate space.
The exhibition /imagine: A Journey into The New Virtual presents an overview of the many design strategies of “The New Virtual” and brings together exciting projects by international architects, designers, and artists that deal in different ways with the challenges and potentials of virtual space and the affiliated social, ecological, political, and infrastructural effects.
In four chapters—Speculative Narratives and Worldbuilding, Research Investigations, Dreamscapes, and AI and Algorithmic Variation—the exhibition features a diverse range of recent work, including a number of commissions, formulating new narratives, perspectives, and agencies in virtual space that may continue into physical reality.
/imagine: is the command that allows users to create their own architectural utopias with the software Midjourney. Based on a text prompt, an AI generates images that can be infinitely varied.
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© Imanuel Thallinger
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© Alexis Christodoulou
© Charlotte Taylor and Riccardo Fornoni
© Matias del Campo/SPAN
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© Andrés REISINGER
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© Leah Wulfman
© Liam Young
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PARTICIPANTS
Morehshin Allahyari, Alisa Andrasek, Matias del Campo & Sandra Manninger (SPAN), Alexis Christodoulou, Formundrausch, Genevieve Goffman, Kordae Jatafa Henry, Miriam Hillawi Abraham, iheartblob, Simone C. Niquille (/technoflesh Studio), Lee Pivnik (The Institute of Queer Ecology), Andrés Reisinger (Reisinger Studio), Jose Sanchez (Plethora Project), Space Popular, Studio Mary Lennox, Studio Precht, Charlotte Taylor, Leah Wulfman, Liam Young, Zyva Studio, 2MVD (Damjan Minovski, Valerie Messini)
CURATORS
Bika Rebek, Architect and Principal, Some Place Studio
Marlies Wirth, Curator Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection
EXHIBITION DESIGN
Some Place Studio
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Process - Studio for Art and Design
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Process - Studio for Art and Design
All texts and information on the exhibited works are available on the project website: thenewvirtual.org
Media
MAK Exhibition View, 2023, /imagine: A Journey into The New Virtual, Kordae Jatafa Henry, Earth Mother, Sky Father, 2019, Film © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
MAK Exhibition View, 2023, /imagine: A Journey into The New Virtual, Alexis Christodoulou, Quantum Express, 2022 © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
MAK Exhibition View, 2023, /imagine: A Journey into The New Virtual, Space Popular, The Portal Galleries, 2022, Installation, Virtual-Reality-Experience © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
MAK Exhibition View, 2023, /imagine: A Journey into The New Virtual, SPAN (Matias del Campo & Sandra Manninger), The Doghouse, 2023, Model, Midjourney images, AIBO7 robots © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
MAK Exhibition View, 2023, /imagine: A Journey into The New Virtual, Leah Wulfman, My Mid Journey Trash Pile, 2022, Installation, Midjourney images, oil paintings © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
MAK Exhibition View, 2023, /imagine: A Journey into The New Virtual, Simone C. Niquille, HOMESCHOOL, 2019 © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
MAK Exhibition View, 2023, /imagine: A Journey into The New Virtual, Genevieve Goffman, The View, 2023 © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
MAK Exhibition View, 2023, /imagine: A Journey into The New Virtual, Morehshin Allahyari, Material Speculation: ISIS, 2015/2016 © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
MAK Exhibition View, 2023, /imagine: A Journey into The New Virtual, Miriam Hillawi Abraham, Abyssinian Cyber Vernaculus, 2019 © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
Charlotte Taylor and Riccardo Fornoni, Villa Saraceni alla Scala dei Turchi, 2020 © Charlotte Taylor and Riccardo Fornoni
Jose Sanchez, Screenshot from the video game Common'hood (Plethora Project), 2022 © Plethora Project/Jose Sanchez