The “print” version of Bruce Sterling’s speech given in Austin on March 12 at SXSW 2025 where he reflects on the efforts to rebuild Primo Levi’s imaginary “Versificatore”.
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Speculative Utopias / Dystopias (x3) – Visual Communication + Change
Visual Comm. + Change students built websites exploring utopias/dystopias. Narratives critique capitalism's failure, ecological decay (microplastics, melting glaciers), the loss of human senses, and the universal need for legacy / remembrance.
SlimeMoldCrypt – Security as a biological process
A speculative device that reimagines security as a biological process using a single-celled slime mold, as an unpredictable and dynamic encryption engine.
Marsokhod-0 (Марсоход-0) – Horrors of the unknown
Created by Lars Hurrelbrink at Digital Media Bremen (Fictions Speculations & Imaginaries), Marsokhod-0 (Марсоход-0) is a interactive time-delayed experience that incorporates elements of Lovecraftian horror (wiki) into the scientific background an...
Dread Bass – AUDINT’s alternate timelines reverberate with fear and death
AUDINT is a European artist collective working across animation, installation, and publishing. Drawing on excerpts from an extended conversation with the group, we unpack their vision of the dystopian future-present and the nether zones that can b...
Drone Aviaries & Field Guides – A Conversation with Superflux
Superflux are a design and foresight consultancy based in London. Founded by Anab Jain and Jon Arden in 2009, the studio produces prototypes and films that are simultaneously prescient, and playful—and now they can add ‘magazine publisher’ to that...
Critical Signals – Practising critical responses to disrupted futures
Critical Signals (NZ) is a three-month public space for learning, imagining, and practising how sovereignty, resilience and collective care will shape our futures in times of rapid change.
Plant Futures – Data‑driven flora morphologies
Plant Futures imagines how a single flower might evolve in response to climate change between 2023 and 2100—and invites us to reflect on the complex, long-term impacts of our warming world.
OpenSurgery: DIY surgical robots as a critical alternative to costly healthcare
The OpenSurgery project investigates whether building DIY surgical robots, outside the scope of medical regulations, could plausibly provide an accessible alternative to costly professional healthcare services worldwide.
Remote Materialities – Future scenographies of our coexistence with robotic devices
Created by the students at the Zurich University of the Arts, 'Remote Materialities' module and to be presented at the upcoming Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, 'Remote Materialities' explores the future scenographies of our coexistence with robo...