Screensavers For The End Of Time
Sep 12, 2025 on
@objktcom
Screensavers for the End of Time confronts the aesthetics of calm, distraction, and pseudo-utility that define the interface of the techno-capitalist society. In this exhibition, digital art becomes a mirror held up not to reality, but to its carefully curated simulation.
Through generative simulations of nature, glitch-calming UIs, and auto-playing visualizations that lull rather than confront, this genre of art serves a double function: to soothe and to suppress. It masks the crisis beneath a polished reflective mirror and offers an anesthetic rather than a resisting aesthetic experience.
Within this paradigm, “digital nature” emerges as a bold theme. It’s an increasingly commodified art practice in which code mimics the organic to create a hyperreal connection to a nature we are alienated from. By generating trees, fog, waterfalls, and birdsong via procedural algorithms, these works project a false utopia of connection and eco-consciousness, while users remain within feedback loops of consumption and disembodiment.
Screensavers for the End of Time confronts the aesthetics of calm, distraction, and pseudo-utility that define the interface of the techno-capitalist society. In this exhibition, digital art becomes a mirror held up not to reality, but to its carefully curated simulation.
We invited works that critically inhabit or subvert these aesthetics, ambient systems that collapse, UI metaphors turned inside-out, or generative nature that glitches under stress, to expose the anxiety, dissonance, and entropy beneath the smooth surface of the screen.
Rather than celebrating seamlessness, we are interested in the fractures within mediated tranquility, and in digital works that reflect the tension between collective unease and corporate spectacle. By doing so, this exhibition aims to uncover how digital art becomes a screen between us and the world in crisis.
Music by
@o_future_
Artists:
OFuture
@o_future_
Eric R. Souther
@ericsouther
Elhem Younes
@elhemyounes
Domenico De Simone
@domenico.desimone.7587
Karisman
@_karisman
GALA MIRISSA
@gifgalamirissa
Henrique Cartaxo
@henrique.cartaxo