WE WRITE THIS TO YOU FROM THE DISTANT FUTURE
Kurátorka Nina Colosi
Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE, Green Brain: A Smart Park for a New City, 2006
Streaming Museum’s exhibition for Tina b. Prague Contemporary Art Festival 2010
We Write This To You From the Distant Future is a multi-media exhibition of work by visionary creators in the arts and sciences that focuses on a future world imagined and possible to build.
The exhibition title is a line spoken by the narrator in Immobilite (2009), a 75-minute feature length art film shot with a mobile phone video camera by Mark Amerika, with music score by Chad Mossholder. A remix collection from Immobilite opens the exhibition evoking questions - how will a technologically advanced world effect what it is to be human and what is the world with advanced technology to become?
In Michael Najjar's bionic angel (2006) series, creatures in the throes of transformation are a metaphor for inevitable genetic self-creation and possible immortality of the human body.
Eduardo Kac animates a poetic code/language in Lagoglyphs (2009) that defies interpretation but derives meaning from his bio artwork, Alba (2000), a genetically engineered bunny.
Marc Barasch’s Green World Campaign, is a Beuys inspired global participatory campaign to plant millions of trees worldwide and bring about the greening of the planet.
Mitchell Joachim imagines human adaptation to global climate shifts and designs for transportation, habitat and sustainable living in the urban environment in Jetpack Packing, (2010); Blimp Bumper Bus, (2008), Fab Tree Hab Village, (2009), Rapid Re(F)Use, (2008); Green Brain: A Smart Park For A New City, (2006).
Artful videos document UK scientist Rachel Armstrong’s Protocells which she has been creating in the lab since 2008. This living programmable technology has vast potential for use in diverse ways such as removing environmental poisons, growing a reef under Venice to save the ancient city, and performing microsurgery.
American composer, Ed Bilous’ Night of the Dark Moon (2005) underscores the exhibition with a sonified image of a future world.
