All HOTHOUSE main events will be also accessible via stream and 3D-Point Cloud Live Video sharing through the following link:
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HOTHOUSE uses a specially developed technology to connect participants across borders: 3D point cloud video sharing creates a collaborative space of resistance in shared presence, in which we can renegotiated democracy as an open process between humans, machines, and the world we inhabit.
Since 2023, The Future of Demonstration has been working with 3D Point Cloud Video Live Sharing, a technology that opens up new aesthetic and ecological possibilities. This real-time medium allows us to connect virtual and physical space and replace conventional VR-avatars with full 3D-transmission: as if through an ‘osmotic skin’ participants can interact, discuss, and perform live with each other. With its unique artistic and discursive potential, we reimagine VR as a medium for planetary collaboration, activism, and resistance.
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HOTHOUSE does not use AI to create art. It is not about the aesthetics of machine systems – nor about whether AI can be made “ethical” or “friendlier.” Instead, HOTHOUSE asks how we reclaim democratic agency in the face of technological forces that reproduce and reinforce inequality.
ICONOCLASTIC ACTS: DISHONOUR TYRANT IDOLS
Autocrats are on the rise. For decades, reactionary forces with considerable financial and strategic resources have been distorting reality, particularly about social policy, immigration, and climate change, thereby driving social division. To gain influence and power, they distort facts, twist the truth, bend the law, and manipulate elections. In alliance with technocapitalists, they are now weaponizing AI against democracy and human rights.
Art brings imagination to life. In times of conflict, it creates counter-images to violence and abuse of power. Today, we need more than a new visual language, we need a different strategy of deconstruction against authoritarian imagination and its coercive rearrangement of desires.
HOTHOUSE calls for iconoclastic acts against their false image of the world. Criticism and dissent are not enough; we need insurrections that expose and betray those who misappropriate power and control. We must abandon loyalty and compliancy and turn digital renegade to demonstrate and resolve their abusive power over the imagination.
Each of the four discursive performances of HOTHOUSE ends with ICONOCLASTIC ACTS: DISHONOUR TYRANT IDOLS, a tribunalistic ritual in which we smash some of those who threaten fundamental rights and livelihoods – with the symbolic means of art for now. This is not an act of aggression, but artistic self-defence against the false consciousness of supremacy which leads to violence and destruction.
Gerald Nestler (The Tribunalistic Ritual), Sylvia Eckermann (balloon sculptures), Volkmar Klien (composition), performed by countertenor Daniel Brittain and Choir Kördölör.
