Hemispherium: 7 Paradoxes

This project is currently in development.

7 installations, each dedicated to a speculative societal future paradox, form the core of this ongoing research project. The works explore how contradictions shape human perception, culture, and collective futures. Rather than offering solutions, they create spaces where visitors confront tensions at the heart of contemporary life.

Each paradox comes to life through an interactive machine, guided by voice, eye-tracking, and tactile gestures. Participants are invited into moments of introspection where their gaze, choices, and imagination generate outcomes. The installations reflect back how individuals navigate scarcity and abundance, attention and distraction, identity and collectivity, reality and simulation.

The project develops through residencies, collaborations with technologists, philosophers, and craftsmen, and gradual prototyping. Each stage of development invites partners and audiences to witness not only the work, but the questions that animate it.

1) Universal Basic Income (Resource Distribution Paradox)
2) Post Scarcity Governance (Meaning Scarcity Paradox)
3) Hyper Personalization (Individual vs. Commons Paradox)
4) Attention Autonomy (Stimulus vs. Control Paradox)
5) Space Extraction (Ownership vs. Collective Frontier Paradox)
6) Mental Health Optimization (Resilience vs. Performance Paradox)
7) Synthetic Food (Natural vs. Engineered Sustenance Paradox)