Join us for A World Without Us, a new exhibition at IMPAKT Center for Media Culture. 

A World Without Us imagines a world without humans. The way we, as a species, currently interact with nature and the environment means that time will perhaps arrive much sooner than we can conceive. In 2007, American journalist Alan Weisman published a work of non-fiction entitled The World Without Us in which he describes what would happen to the planet if humans were to suddenly disappear. He outlines which traces of human civilization would soon be lost, how cities and houses would tumble into disrepair, which materials and structures would survive longest as well as how the various non-human organisms would develop after humanity’s disappearance. A World Without Us wants to communicate the urgency of working towards improved dealings with nature. The exhibition will both provide space for examples of the damage we as humans cause as well as how the right use of technology can create solutions.

Among the exhibited artworks are:

ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form & Antisocial Swarm Robots - Anna Dumitriu & Alex May - EMAP artists in residence at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Empathy Swarm - Katrin Hochschuh & Adam Donovan - EMAP artists in residence at KONTEJNER
Aqua_forensic: Underwater Interception of Biotweaking in Aquatocene - Robertina’s Šebjanič & Gjino Šutić - EMAP artist in residence at Ars Electronica
Subocean Botlights - Taavi Suisalu - EMAP artist in residence at WRO Art Center