residency

Art in uncertain conditions

Reality != Truth
How do we distinguish between imagination and reality, fiction and non-fiction? Our histories are brimming with accounts of parallel, superimposed, amplified realities. Today we are able to experiment with world building tools, DIY toolkits for constructing evolving realities. We are beginning to make our imaginary worlds tangible and shared? What can we learn from theatre, shamanism and ethnobotany to help us imagine and actualise possible futures? What cognitive and physiological processes are needed for something to be perceived as 'real'?

How do we make our realities more malleable, less static? How to we open up physical objects and make apparent their relationships, their connections with other things, events, or people? In Bruce Sterling's words - how do we move from technological gizmos to spimes (or space-time media)?

Inspired by Situationists' dérive, drift stands for urban wanderings, psychogeography, alternative mappings, location specific media and other forms of contemporary nomadism. On the ground, in the air, or suspended between the two.

During this research gathering Angelo Vermeulen will present a round-up of Translucent Futures, a project he started at FoAM in June and continued at a residency at [nadine] in September and October, supported by the Guild for Reality Integrators and Generators. The meeting starts with a short introduction outlining the project’s main goals and research approach through mind-mapping, wiki-building and collaboration with specialists from different fields.