UBERMORGEN’s 'The Silver Singularity' dives into fractured timelines and surreal futures, bending reality through cryptic forests and glitchy silver imprints.
The year 2001 was the trigger—a 'pandemic of passivity' that crashed reality into a state of 'spaghettification' and 'artificial imaginations'. The Silver Singularity captures this fallout, fusing a feral, conductive forest with silver-ceramic imprints that act as 'digital fossils' of a fractured timeline. Embedded within a covert political thriller, the work unifies these diverse realities into a contemporary saga. In our Neo-Biedermeier age, where the brain remains the 'ultimate Playstation,' each NFT functions as a 'synthetic organism' documenting the moment 'The Machine Affirms' its own sovereignty.
This final installment of the 'Happy Dystopia' Series blurs history, cracking open new visions for our Neo-Biedermeier age and foreshadowing the bold 'Radical Universalism' cycle.
Commissioned by Busan Biennale Organizing Committee, 2024
Produced in collaboration with Phileas - The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art in Vienna
Supported by BMKOES and Pro Helvetia
Credits Scentscape by MUELLER-DIVJAK Premium Installation Assistance by Alexander Zenker Webtech by Julius Lugmayr
Carlo Giuliani in immortalitate sua
Thanks for inspiration to Michelle Kasprzak, Patricia Reiss, Sebastian Pfeiffenhofer, rolux.org, Swarovski, and Porzellanmanufaktur Augarten.