Opening & Performance: Speculative Futures – Robotic Meditation

What happens when humanity can no longer protect its own future?

In Speculative Futures: Robotic Meditation, Argentine-Spanish artist Joaquín Fargas presents an immersive installation that combines robotics, sound, and speculative storytelling.

The work imagines a distant future in which humanity has entrusted its survival to machines. In the work’s original narrative, an artificial intelligence discovers a group of half-buried nanny robots, remnants of an intergalactic ark created to safeguard human embryos. Activated by the rising sun, the solar-powered robots slowly move their heads in a gesture of reverence, worshipping the source of their energy as ancient civilizations once did.
Rather than offering answers, the installation invites us to reflect on artificial intelligence, ecological crisis, and the future of our species.

Opening & Performance

Join us for a unique participatory performance on the opening night.
Visitors are invited to participate in a collective meditation alongside the robots, becoming part of the artwork itself.
No previous meditation experience is required—only curiosity and a willingness to slow down.

Joaquín Fargas is an Argentine-Spanish artist and industrial engineer whose practice brings together art, science and technology. Since the early 2000s, he has incorporated digital media, communication technologies, robotics, artificial intelligence and biological materials into works that examine life, environmental fragility and possible futures. His projects often translate scientific ideas into poetic, participatory experiences, proposing hybrid ecologies and new dialogues between humans, machines and other living beings. Fargas founded the BioArt Laboratory at Maimonides University in Buenos Aires and served as Executive Director of RedPOP, UNESCO’s network for the popularization of science and technology, from 2010 to 2013. His current research explores speculative futures, quantum technologies, artificial intelligence, and planetary preservation.

Entry free

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