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Explore 'Windows to the Future': Audiovisual Installations at Espacio Fundación Telefónica

Imagine inspiring future scenarios through six large-scale digital artworks exploring technology and alternative realities.

Espacio Fundación Telefónica's 'Windows to the Future' exhibition invites visitors to explore unique, forward-looking narratives. Immerse yourself in six compelling audiovisual installations that redefine perspectives on what lies ahead, moving beyond traditional science fiction. These creations leverage advanced technology, including CGI and AI, to craft inspiring and optimistic visions for tomorrow. Discover how artists envision alternative realities through digital art.

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Exhibition summary

Espacio Fundación Telefónica presents 'Windows to the Future', an exhibition featuring six large audiovisual installations. These works invite visitors to imagine optimistic and inspiring future scenarios that move beyond conventional science fiction stereotypes. The exhibition explores alternative narratives and uses technology as a key component in the artists' creative process.

Curatorial context

Espacio Fundación Telefónica presents 'Windows to the Future,' an exhibition that opens portals to imagined futures, moving beyond conventional science fiction tropes towards optimistic and inspiring visions. Featuring six large-scale audiovisual installations, the exhibition showcases narratives from six creators, acting as capsules from a time yet to come. These works are emissaries of futures that challenge our current perceptions and propose alternative realities that have the power to shape tomorrow from unexpected perspectives. The exhibition is on view on the 3rd floor, running from February 9 to September 8, 2024. This exhibition is part of a narrative trilogy on the future, following 'The Great Imagination. Histories from the future' and 'Liam Young Building Worlds,' which also focused on projecting fictional scenarios and alternative worlds using technology. Each of the six windows in the exhibition space serves as a projection of different realities and hypotheses for the future, prompting visitors to reconsider how they think about what lies ahead and fostering a dialogue between the present and potential future decades. Applied imagination is central to this exhibition, with technology playing an essential role in materializing the artists' visions. The use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and Artificial Intelligence results in audiovisual creations that convey new narratives and visual registers. The interdisciplinary studio Invisiblelab collaborated in advising the project, supporting the artists in their conceptualization process and the theoretical framework of each work.

Admission and ticket notes

Admission to Espacio Fundación Telefónica is free. Visitors are directed to check the official website for any specific access or ticketing details not covered here.

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Venue
Espacio Fundación Telefónica
Current status
Completed
Exhibition schedule
Feb 9, 2024 – Sep 8, 2024
Artist line / attribution
The exhibition features works by Paul Trillo ('Notes to My Future Self'), GMUNK ('Synapse Code: Patterns of a Digital Consciousness'), Inferstudio ('Entangled Atlas'), BOLDTRON ('Path'), Lifeforms ('Orbital'), and fuse* ('Onirica').
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