Datas
Sfera and the Myth of the Techno-Utopian Vision
Join us for a DATAS TALK on October 1st at 6 PM CET, featuring the Sfera collective (Sylvia Rybak, Marco Winter, and Ula Sowa Przybylska) in conversation with Weronika Lewandowska.
Sfera will present their project Anthrome a room-scale audiovisual installation simulating a hyperreal, reactive biosphere. Anthrome explores the myth of the libertarian "exit" through techno-utopian visions like Biosphere 2 and seasteading, interrogating how closed systems reproduce control, surveillance, and eventual failure under the guise of autonomy. The project highlights that escapist desires, favoring individual gain, paradoxically depend on communal participation.
Developed during a 2-month online program, this public talk will further analyze contemporary exit projects, the transformation of sensor data, and the fragility of isolated systems, while examining the historical development of the "Californian ideology."
Sfera, formed by Sylvia Rybak, Marco Winter, and Ula Sowa Przybylska, is a research-driven collective working across digital art, media theory, and immersive production. With backgrounds in photography, data science, cultural anthropology, and sound, their practices converge around the critical exploration of social and economic structures, speculative aesthetics, and technological mediation. Their current work spans themes such as hauntological aesthetics in video games, the cultural dissemination of systemic imaginaries, and immersive modes of storytelling.
Co-funded by the European Union as part of the Creative Europe framework.Views and opinions expressed arehoweverthose of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsiblefor them.
Co-funded by New Democracy Fund / Danish Cultural Institute.
DATAS (2025-26) is an assembly convened to amplify unheard voices from Central and Eastern Europe, and Southern Caucasus, reflecting on the relationship between the self, technology, and power. Produced in partnership between Goethe-Institut (Germany), Izolyatsia (Ukraine), MeetFactory (Czech Republic), ProjektAtol (Slovenia) and Tallinn Art Hall (Estonia).
LINK TO REGISTER: DATAS Talk: Sfera collective | Platform
Sfera will present their project Anthrome a room-scale audiovisual installation simulating a hyperreal, reactive biosphere. Anthrome explores the myth of the libertarian "exit" through techno-utopian visions like Biosphere 2 and seasteading, interrogating how closed systems reproduce control, surveillance, and eventual failure under the guise of autonomy. The project highlights that escapist desires, favoring individual gain, paradoxically depend on communal participation.
Developed during a 2-month online program, this public talk will further analyze contemporary exit projects, the transformation of sensor data, and the fragility of isolated systems, while examining the historical development of the "Californian ideology."
Sfera, formed by Sylvia Rybak, Marco Winter, and Ula Sowa Przybylska, is a research-driven collective working across digital art, media theory, and immersive production. With backgrounds in photography, data science, cultural anthropology, and sound, their practices converge around the critical exploration of social and economic structures, speculative aesthetics, and technological mediation. Their current work spans themes such as hauntological aesthetics in video games, the cultural dissemination of systemic imaginaries, and immersive modes of storytelling.
Co-funded by the European Union as part of the Creative Europe framework.Views and opinions expressed arehoweverthose of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsiblefor them.
Co-funded by New Democracy Fund / Danish Cultural Institute.
DATAS (2025-26) is an assembly convened to amplify unheard voices from Central and Eastern Europe, and Southern Caucasus, reflecting on the relationship between the self, technology, and power. Produced in partnership between Goethe-Institut (Germany), Izolyatsia (Ukraine), MeetFactory (Czech Republic), ProjektAtol (Slovenia) and Tallinn Art Hall (Estonia).
LINK TO REGISTER: DATAS Talk: Sfera collective | Platform
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Details
Language: English
Admission: Free
Event type: Talk
datas@goethe.de