Event
Studiotopia’s Artworks at Atlas
Register for the eventSYMBIOTIC IMAGINARIES
“Symbiotic Imaginaries” is a showcase that presents the STUDIOTOPIA project through four works and a series of video interviews, offering audiences insight into the collaborative process between artists and scientists. The exhibition aims to make a methodology visible: shared research across different disciplines as a way of addressing the environmental, social, and technological challenges of our time.
At the heart of the exhibition lies a question—the same one that has guided the project throughout its development:
How can we imagine new forms of coexistence between humans, technologies, and living systems?
The selected works explore different perspectives on the concept of the Symbiocene, the paradigm inspiring the new edition of STUDIOTOPIA. This vision of the future is grounded in interdependence among species, ecosystems, and forms of knowledge. Each work emerges from the encounter between artistic sensibilities and scientific research, transforming data, biological processes, environmental phenomena, and complex systems into narrative experiences.
The project brought together 11 international partners: MEET Digital Culture Center (Italy), Hexagone Scène Nationale (France), Cluj Cultural Center (Romania), CCA Łaźnia (Poland), Beta Festival (Ireland), Gluon (Belgium), CYENS (Cyprus), LABoral (Spain), Bozar (Belgium), Kersnikova (Slovenia), and Ars Electronica (Austria).
Alongside the artworks, a series of short video interviews (5–8 minutes each) offers audiences access to the laboratories, studios, and working processes behind the project. Artists and scientists discuss how a common language is developed, what questions emerge during the research process, and why imagination can become a tool for generating new forms of knowledge.
THE WORKS
LIQUID STRATA: ARGOMORPHS
Entangled Others × Joan Llort
A series of 3D-printed metal sculptures developed during the residency, imagining hybrid entities born from encounters between Argo floats and the ocean inhabitants that pass by them unseen. Each sculpture merges marine morphologies derived from species living at different depths with the geometry of scientific instruments. Machine and life intertwine, revealing the unsettling diversity of still-unexplored ecosystems.
GROUND TRUTH – VIDEO WORK
Miguel Teodoro × George Zittis – CYENS (Cyprus)
Ground Truth explores the relationships between climate change, desertification, technological infrastructures, and ecological perception. The project reflects on how scientific environmental monitoring systems transform our relationship with territory and climatic phenomena.
THINKING WITH HEAT – VIDEO WORK
Karolina Sobecka × Agnieszka Szostok × Michał Piasecki – CCA Łaźnia (Poland)
Thinking with Heat investigates heat as an ecological, political, and sensory force. The project examines how climate change reshapes the relationship between the body, the environment, and technological systems, proposing alternative modes of perception and knowledge beyond abstract scientific models.
A FIELD GUIDE TO ORBITAL MELANCHOLY – VIDEO WORK
Cezar Mocan × Barry O’Sullivan × Nora O’Murchu – Beta Festival (Ireland)
A Field Guide to Orbital Melancholy explores the relationship between satellite observation, artificial intelligence, the construction of truth, and the perception of territory. The project reflects on how contemporary technological infrastructures generate new forms of reality, uncertainty, and planetary narratives.
Complementing these works is a series of interviews with artists and scientists who participated in the Studiotopia residencies. In these conversations, they discuss how they have integrated the relationship between art, science, and technology into their practices, ultimately leading to the creation of new artworks.
The participating artists and scientists include Ânia Pais, John Palmesino (Territorial Agency), Dr. Alexander Damianos, Kyriaki Goni, Andromachi Gkoulia, Dr. Lea Luka Sikau, Denisa Půbalová, Felipe Lombó, Laure Winants, Karolina Sobecka, Adrien Lucca, Dmitry Morozov (aka ::vtol::), Tibor Hartel, Marina Dermastia, Miguel Teodoro, Hung Lu Chan, Cezar Mocan, Joan Llort, Agnieszka Szostok, Dr. Marko Ilić, Ziggy O’Reilly, and Dr. Aiman Raza.
