This February, FutureEverything, Bangalore-based tech-art platform BeFantastic, and Manchester-based partners and venue HOME will deliver a weekend pop-up event and a programme of activity sharing artistic ideas, concepts and artworks created for FutureFantastic, India’s first artificial intelligence (AI) and art festival engaging with climate change, part of the British Council’s India Together UK Season of Culture.
The FutureFantastic pop-up showcase offers a prelude behind-the-scenes peek at two FutureFantastic prototype commissions before they’re presented in their final form at the Bangalore festival in March. These AI-enabled installations have been conceptualised and created by artists, creative technologists and performers from India and the UK, coming together through a mentoring scheme and programme spearheaded by FutureEverything and BeFantastic.
Visitors to HOME will have the opportunity to explore artworks and attend a series of talks that highlight international collaborations and creative productions that amplify a global response to our shared climate emergency. All this with the belief that we are capable of manifesting a radical, open and optimistic future as activated global citizens. Together.
A locative embodied gaming experience based on movement arts explorations where the participants use body movements as the controller to race against time and offset changes in their environment. The aim is to convey non-intuitive concepts underlying climate science, the urgency and reality of climate change, and the role of the individual and of the collective.
Description: Only a Game is an experience that aims to engage emotionally, culturally, intellectually invested stakeholders in climate action – to foster conversations on the idea of how our actions change the environment around us. Even though individual action rarely makes a significant impact, it is not futile – significant effects will only manifest from collective, directed, and informed action.
Through somatic and movement arts explorations, players can discover how powerful individual and collective embodied experiences can be for learning playfully while still being transformative; they co-create “emergent” tangible art-pieces that expresses these collective embodied experiences.
Artists: Pritha Kundu (INDIA) | Tiz Creel (UK) | Fabian Raith (GERMANY)
Supported By: Tanya Saxena (INDIA), David McFarlane (UK)