[FUTURE] TERRITORIES

7-10 May 2026
Co-Curated by NODE Media Lab and Das LOT
THURSDAY 07.05 19:00 Vernissage
20:00 Opening Performance by Sunggu Hong

Artists:

Simon Braissant and Joachim Clematide

Eugénie Desmedt, Paul Kloker, Marton Zalka, Christine Haupt, Jonas Martschin

Zachary Furste & Diego Gómez-Venegas

the Futile Corporation

Ahmed Jamal, Emma Silvana Tripaldi and Till Schönwetter

Sunggu Hong

Inferstudio

Lisa Kaschubat

Time’s Up - Labor Zur Schaffung Experimenteller Situationen

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Production by Das LOT and Artificial Museum
Ilkan Sücüllü production 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 attempt to predict the future. Instead, it investigates how the future is already being imagined, constructed and negotiated in the present.

Co-curated by NODE Media Lab, the exhibition approaches the future not as a distant horizon, but as something embedded in infrastructures, encoded in technologies and continuously rehearsed through bodies, environments and emotions. It unfolds as a field of forces in which data, perception, power, and speculation intersect.

Territory, in this context, extends far beyond land or borders. It emerges through post-geographical conditions: data flows, virtual commons, algorithmic governance, ecological thresholds and human–non-human entanglements. These territories are unstable, porous and often invisible, yet they shape how we act, relate and imagine.

Rather than presenting interaction as a neutral interface or playful feature, [FUTURE] TERRITORIES frames it as a political and emancipatory act. Interaction becomes a way of entering and negotiating territory: of crossing thresholds, confronting systems and reclaiming agency in an age of passive consumption.

The exhibition itself operates as a living system, an environment to be navigated, activated and continuously reshaped by its visitors. Within this evolving landscape, the selected works function as entry points into different modalities of the future