Spatial Affairs. Worlding

2022
Exhibiting internet art in its native habitat.

An unique multi-user environment where works of net.art mingle with visitors' avatars. Worlding is inspired by Konrad Zuse's theory about the universe as a space inhabited by living and evolving automata. What if the exhibition becomes an ecosystem of “computing cosmos”? Boundaries between digital objects and active subjects dissolve in such a virtual world. This is how we imagine a self-reproducing and self-reprogramming cellular automata.

  • Spatial Affairs. Worlding: pastel blobs and bumpy tiles drift through a black virtual world, net.art shimmering among them
  • Spatial Affairs. Worlding: pastel tiles and a pink coral float on a lavender screen, 'Enter' the native habitat of net.art
  • Spatial Affairs. Worlding: pink bumpy tiles line up above a splashing blob and teal boxes, automata of a computing cosmos
  • Spatial Affairs. Worlding: marbled spheres, a statue cutout and glitchy figures mingle on lilac, digital objects of net.art
  • Spatial Affairs. Worlding: a pink beaded chain branches over brown among bumpy tiles and spheres, evolving cellular automata
  • Spatial Affairs. Worlding: a pink blob branches past turquoise frames and pod tiles, digital objects as living automata
  • Spatial Affairs. Worlding: pastel blobs and bricks drift in a black void over hot-pink pools, net.art and avatars mingle
  • Spatial Affairs. Worlding: eight glitchy figures in silver, blue and violet stand on black, avatars for a virtual world
  • Spatial Affairs. Worlding: pink sphere chains and pod tiles sprawl on periwinkle by a hot-pink branch, evolving automata
  • Spatial Affairs. Worlding: a rose splat cradles three spheres amid pod tiles on periwinkle, self-reproducing automata