Interactive game play booth and process showcase:
“Hauntology [is] the agency of the virtual, with the spectre understood not as anything supernatural, but as that which acts without (physically) existing […] how reverberant events in the psyche become revenants […] The second sense of hauntology refers to that which is already effective in the virtual (an attractor, an anticipation shaping current behavior).” — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life

Meander through a prototype of an ethereal digital realm, where art and entropy entwine. A realm where ancient tales resound across time, unveiled as you interact with enigmatic creations and explore alternate realms in the ever-shifting environment.

Prototype and process showcase:
Olphar is a new scent library project by Currencydesign that challenges traditional scent categories by incorporating audio, visual, and conceptual elements to reimagine the decision-making process of choosing scents.

A project challenging traditional scent categories, incorporating audio, visual, and conceptual elements to reimagine the decision-making process of scent.

Virtual environment:
Presenting a work-in-progress version of 0/– (The Lapse Project) through @intermission.art. Pulling relations and micro-sites from the Aliwal precinct into Hothouse via 3D scans and virtual emplacement, 0/– extends the reflection on digital memory as disappearance in its’ first iteration (2018) to a new ethos of digital rematerialization.

Lecture performance and process showcase:
From today through the upcoming weekend, we invite you to swing by our showcase, including the latest publication for sale and multimedia research presentation by Zhiyi Cao. The work delve into the intriguing intersection of architecture and the entertainment-industrial complex, with a special focus on the intricate world of expanded reality TV film sets and the infrastructural impact they carry.

Presented by Zhiyi Cao

Zhiyi is an artist based in Singapore and Amsterdam. Through her multi-disciplinary practice with a focus in film and spatial discourses, she reflects upon millennial expositions and exigencies, seeking to exercise strategic complicity with the narratives she creates. In doing so, she hopes to dissolve the distinction between fact and fiction, subject, object and project. Some of her research interests include the conditions of labour in the creative regime, the myth of co-working spaces, and the superarchitecture of fandom. She is currently working on a film following a temporary intervention on the historical IBM HQ building in Amsterdam.