This two-part programme delves into the transformative potential of spatial augmentation and temporal decay. Part panel discussions and part news broadcast, the programme traverses the intertwined landscapes of economic speculation, infrastructural shifts and the fluidity of media time. Along the way, new narratives emerge, challenging and reshaping our understanding of technological progress and control. As artists dismantle and reconstruct new worlds, the decay of the present moment diffracts into the future, illuminating new temporalities and spaces of being, as we accelerate into the void.
Erratic investments and waves of divestment shape the possibilities available to millions, carving out the boundaries of our lived realities. In this temporal-spatial fold of the metaverse, the aspirational reshaping of cyber worlds can profoundly influence our material realities.
This panel explores the potential of spatial and architectural augmentation across both physical and digital realms, focusing on techno-social infrastructures as bridges between the tangible and the speculative. If infrastructure is ideology made durable, then transforming it through hybrid spatial interventions offers us a glimpse into alternative infrastructural imaginaries, rather than mourning the loss of control. The panel engages with these unfolding narratives in real time, examining digital artefacts from the future, transmuted from their past to our present through glitching portals.
As media artefacts shape our perceptions of time, they unravel it into stretches, citations and reversals, challenging conventional notions of production and decay. Decay, far from mere degradation, becomes a force of creation, resisting the grasp of predictive, extractivist logics. It disrupts the linear march of progress, subverting traditional ideas of innovation.
The discussion examines the interplay between technological decay and media time. Embracing decay as a fundamental aspect of our media existence, the panel explores the potential of technological decay and transformation, navigating the space between what has passed and what is yet to come. Together, we open pathways to alternative temporal currents, ushering in new flows of being and time.