Posthuman Island: Collaboration on Metaspace Exploration

Posthuman Island is a set of virtual exhibitions, combining 20 visual artworks by artists from the USA, England, South Korea, Ukraine, and Germany.

VIRTUAL EXHIBITION & SPECULATIVE FUTURE By Cultural Policy X Feltzine

Posthuman Island is virtual shows the futuristic world of five transformed humans in 2060. The project speculates about the evolution of human biology and psychology under the influence of AI. Each posthuman has a detailed bio and a diary documenting their time spent in isolated rooms with unlimited access to outside information.

POSTHUMANS

VIVI  //  FLUXIE //  NBS  //  IMAGO // SPECIMEN

This exhibition explores the ideas around our potential physical and mental adaptations occurring because of upcoming technology. What are we as humans taking into the future?

Posthuman Island: XR collab by Cultural Policy, Feltzine, Areyes Studio, and Mubert

This research collaborates with artists from the US, Germany, England, South Korea, and Ukraine, including artworks by non-binary & BIPOC artists. The creatures presented are fusions of their creators, whose artworks dig into tech and cultural investigations on psychology and biopolitics.

STORY

Nearly six decades ago, in 2001, a group of tech elites (known as “Dr. Trust”) founded NeuBi Solutions and set up “Posthuman Island”– a research center underneath an island in the Philippines. In 2037, a group of human volunteers isolated themselves (with one-way online access), and repeatedly mutated using beta quantum evolution technology. Twenty-three years later, a posthuman anthropologist reveals the physiological, psychological, and technological development in these beings and uncovers the reason why they must be protected.

SHOW

The show comprises 20 visual artworks (video, still images, gifs), five original audio compositions, and an accompanying narrative story that weaves it all together.

Posthuman Island was produced by AREYES @areyes.studio, in collaboration with Cultural Policy @culturalpolicy. Presented in partnership with @grayarea and @feltzine. Soundscape is generated by Mubert.

Posthuman Island: XR collab by Cultural Policy, Feltzine, Areyes Studio, and Mubert

FLUXIE BY HUNTREZZ JANOZ

IMAGO BY MARIA DMITROVA

NBS.AI.V13.3.7 / SUBJECT 1247 BY OBSO1337 & GEORGE STONE

SPECIMEN BY CHRIS COLLINS

VIVI BY WEDNESDAY KIM

FEATURED ARTISTS

Chris Collins US @chris__content  Huntrezz Janoz US @huntrezz  Maria Dmitrova UA @mashadmitrova  Obso1337  UK @obso1337.life  George Jasper Stone UK @georgejasperstone  Wednesday Kim South Korea @wednesdaykimm

CULTURAL POLICY

Curator Alice Scope US @alicescope  Creative Director, Writer  Michael Barth US @mycoolbarf Creative Producer, Researcher Olha Pylypenko Germany @the.eternal_ Art Director Anton Synytsia UA @asleggo Sound Designer DURA, Germany @mduraart

AREYES STUDIO

Lead Artist, Technical Director Alexander Surinin @alexandersurnin  Technical Producer, Coordinator Ivan Pavluichenko @pavlyuchenkko  Developer Ihor Zelinko @rokkoeffe  Developer Oleksii Surnin @oleksiisurnin  3D Artist  Bubnov Alexandr  @l1an.alx 3D Artist Pavlo Tkachenko @masketing.design

MUBERT

AI Music: @mubert.app  Music Director Paul Zgordan @dancingteeth  Technical Director Vadim Baryshev @vadim_baryshev  Head of RnD Alexey Kalinin @alexptic  Director Alex Kochetkov @alexmubert