[FUTURE] TERRITORIES

Co-Curated by NODE Media Lab

[FUTURE] TERRITORIES is the 2026 edition of [...]TERRITORIES, Das LOT’s transmedia exhibition dedicated to interactive, performative and digital artistic practices. Following [LUDIC] TERRITORIES (2024) and [ARTIFICIAL] TERRITORIES (2025), this edition does not aim to predict the future, but to question how it is imagined, designed, governed and inhabited now.

The exhibition approaches the future as already present, embedded in infrastructures, encoded in technologies, rehearsed through speculative systems and experienced through bodies, environments and emotions.

Curatorial Focus

Territory today extends far beyond land and borders. It emerges through Post-geographical territories, data flows, virtual commons, algorithmic borders and AI-driven governance, ecological and beyond-human thresholds, speculative infrastructures and embodied interaction. These territories are unstable, porous and often invisible.

Rather than treating the future as a distant or dystopian horizon, the exhibition approaches it as a memory in formation in the here and now. Interaction not only as a playful gadget but as a political and emancipatory act in the face of big tech: a way of entering territory, crossing thresholds and regaining agency in times of passive consumption.

What We Are Looking For

For [FUTURE] TERRITORIES, ECHOLOT and NODE Media Lab conceive the exhibition as a shared experimental ground rather than a static display. The exhibition space itself becomes a living territory, one that is entered, navigated, activated and continuously reshaped by its visitors.

We invite artists working with interactive, performative, and transmedia practices to submit works that actively engage audiences through participation, physical interaction, and responsive systems.

We are particularly interested in works that:

• Treat technology as a cultural and social condition, not just a tool

• Embrace speculation, uncertainty, and experimentation

• Activate the body, senses, and emotions

• Invite audiences to feel and inhabit future scenarios, rather than observe them

Submissions may include physical, digital, hybrid, performative, or generative works. Completed works and site-responsive proposals are welcome.