UNI_VERSE STUDIO - THE MESSYVERSE EXHIBITION
The Messyverse
Exhibition
Explore digital worlds by visionary artists
A dynamic festival about self-expression, representation and identity within new digital worlds.
THE MESSYVERSE opened with a two-day festival on 2 + 3 September. Opening during Amsterdam Fashion Week, this festival and fashion show showcased the creativity and imagination of designers and artists from around the globe.
Running through 6 October, THE MESSYVERSE Exhibition invited you into imaginative, speculative futures for our most intimate human moments, while the ongoing program of talks and performances inspired new questions and unpacks ethical considerations as we look forward.
During THE MESSYVERSE on 2 and 3 September, Felix Meritis opened the doors to its new exhibition space with an immersive and multisensory exhibition exploring the chaotic creative potential of the new digital worlds.
Curated together with Morgan Catalina at the Felix Meritis team, THE MESSYVERSE EXHIBITION highlighted visionary artists who use digital spaces to explore deeply human ideas such as grief, identity and the afterlife.
As virtual worlds are still in their infancy, we explored how they will shape our lives by showcasing new and deeply personal works
Enter THE MESSYVERSE: a beautiful, creative and complex world where uniquely human concepts such as grief, self expression, identity and the afterlife are reimagined.
As life becomes increasingly coded into algorithmic calculations, we must decide whether we will be reduced to rational agents pursuing individualistic goals, or if we will create more expansive, collective notions of what it is to be human today. In a world where we have simultaneously evolved paleolithic emotions yet godlike technology, the ways in which we create space for our messy, paradoxical and deeply-rooted emotional landscape will define the future. What should it mean to be human in a post-human world?
These visionary artists embrace new and limitless possibilities within virtual realms. They play upon the border between the physical and digital, natural and artificial, self and avatar, to showcase how these incredible new tools can help us evolve new values and carry them into whatever future we choose.
This exbitition was also the perfect opportunity for us to showcase our interactive installation for the first time to an audience.
Recursive Reflections got to be shown alongside some artworks from great artists.
Credits
Curation: Morgan Catalina, Jeff Beukema, Isabelle Udo, Antonio Talarico & Felix Meritis
Production: Daan Scrhaauwers, Enzo Soubra, Emma Wijbenga, Eva Asselbergh, Rivka van den Berg & Felix Meritis
Tech: MTS Audiovisueel
Photography/videography: Joyce van Doorn & Angelina Nikolayeva
Artists: Serwah Attafuah, Lu Yang, Frederik Heyman, UNI_VERSE Studio, Ines Alpha, The Fabricant, Baast Studio, Romain Gauthier, Malou Sandig, Vincent Snijders, Cypherloom, Timaeus, Frank Bloem
The Messyverse
Exhibition
Explore digital worlds by visionary artists
During THE MESSYVERSE on 2 and 3 September, Felix Meritis opened the doors to its new exhibition space with an immersive and multisensory exhibition exploring the chaotic creative potential of the new digital worlds.
Curated together with Morgan Catalina at the Felix Meritis team, THE MESSYVERSE EXHIBITION highlighted visionary artists who use digital spaces to explore deeply human ideas such as grief, identity and the afterlife.
As virtual worlds are still in their infancy, we explored how they will shape our lives by showcasing new and deeply personal works
Enter THE MESSYVERSE: a beautiful, creative and complex world where uniquely human concepts such as grief, self expression, identity and the afterlife are reimagined.
As life becomes increasingly coded into algorithmic calculations, we must decide whether we will be reduced to rational agents pursuing individualistic goals, or if we will create more expansive, collective notions of what it is to be human today. In a world where we have simultaneously evolved paleolithic emotions yet godlike technology, the ways in which we create space for our messy, paradoxical and deeply-rooted emotional landscape will define the future. What should it mean to be human in a post-human world?
These visionary artists embrace new and limitless possibilities within virtual realms. They play upon the border between the physical and digital, natural and artificial, self and avatar, to showcase how these incredible new tools can help us evolve new values and carry them into whatever future we choose.
This exbitition was also the perfect opportunity for us to showcase our interactive installation for the first time to an audience.
Recursive Reflections got to be shown alongside some artworks from great artists.
Credits
Curation: Morgan Catalina, Jeff Beukema, Isabelle Udo, Antonio Talarico & Felix Meritis
Production: Daan Scrhaauwers, Enzo Soubra, Emma Wijbenga, Eva Asselbergh, Rivka van den Berg & Felix Meritis
Tech: MTS Audiovisueel
Photography/videography: Joyce van Doorn & Angelina Nikolayeva
Artists: Serwah Attafuah, Lu Yang, Frederik Heyman, UNI_VERSE Studio, Ines Alpha, The Fabricant, Baast Studio, Romain Gauthier, Malou Sandig, Vincent Snijders, Cypherloom, Timaeus, Frank Bloem