Science-Ex: Timeless Travels
Looking back on science fiction stories of the 20th century, in 2021 the city would no longer consist of only a two-dimensional infrastructure, self-flying cars would have become commonplace and a three-dimensional network of roads would be a matter of course. Life on Mars would be possible for those beings that have decided to live in a new world. Almost 50 years ago, the newly founded "Club of Rome" published the report "The Limits to Growth", a study on the future of the world economy, which criticised the increasing consumption and exploitation of natural resources by humans. The balance could only be restored through measures to protect the environment, capital growth and birth control. In 2001 - A Space Odyssey, the on-board computer HAL 9000 develops a consciousness and even then told of the irrepressibility of artificial intelligence. From today's perspective, these and many other examples lose none of their relevance, but actually tell of how people imagined the future 50 years ago. On 20 July this year, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos set off into space and called for people to do the same.
We compare the past with the present and notice that very few innovations have been realised yet. Science fiction allows us to constantly travel back and forth in time, no matter where we start from.
In the exhibition "Science-Ex - timeless travels", we set out in search of a contemporary narrative from the future and invite young artists to create a cosmos that brings future relics into the now, that also enables supernatural communication and thus creates a local contemporary sci-fi reference.
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Looking back on science fiction stories of the 20th century, in 2021 the city would no longer consist of only a two-dimensional infrastructure, self-flying cars would have become commonplace and a three-dimensional network of roads would be a matter of course. Life on Mars would be possible for those beings that have decided to live in a new world. Almost 50 years ago, the newly founded "Club of Rome" published the report "The Limits to Growth", a study on the future of the world economy, which criticised the increasing consumption and exploitation of natural resources by humans. The balance could only be restored through measures to protect the environment, capital growth and birth control. In 2001 - A Space Odyssey, the on-board computer HAL 9000 develops a consciousness and even then told of the irrepressibility of artificial intelligence. From today's perspective, these and many other examples lose none of their relevance, but actually tell of how people imagined the future 50 years ago. On 20 July this year, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos set off into space and called for people to do the same.
We compare the past with the present and notice that very few innovations have been realised yet. Science fiction allows us to constantly travel back and forth in time, no matter where we start from.
In the exhibition "Science-Ex - timeless travels", we set out in search of a contemporary narrative from the future and invite young artists to create a cosmos that brings future relics into the now, that also enables supernatural communication and thus creates a local contemporary sci-fi reference.
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