Robotics, bionics and bio-engineering are perennial chartbusters on the techno-hype hit parade despite what generally remains a yawning gap between pumped-up pronouncements of what’s upcoming and the tangible results now at hand. Moreover, these concepts are closely connected with archaic ideas of the imitation and improvement of nature. The exhibition showcases the latest ways in which artists are approaching this theme: artistically constructed apparatuses, refreshingly ironic paraphrases and poetically useless machines, linkages among real and virtual manifestations, pseudo-intelligent software agents and rebellious digital characters.

In cooperation with Architekturforum Oberösterreich

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