Sector A

AvantGarden: Sphere 3 Sector A
Virtual reality art installation or video work
3D graphics, world building, digital sculptures: Tanja Vujinović
Sound: LUZ1E and Mihajlo Đorović
3D models of asteroids (Eros, Geographos, Golevka, Mithra): Nasa
Executive production: Tanja Vujinović, Jan Kušej
Production: Ultramono, 2020

Consulting
Jan Kušej, Ultramono Institute
Dr Jelena Guga, researcher
Nataša Todorović, Astronomic Observatory Belgrade
Dr Zoran Lj. Petrović, SANU
Dr Lowell Morgan, Physicist, Kinema Research
Dr Vid Podpečan, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Institute Jozef Stefan
Derek Snyder, researcher and editor

Sector A is a virtual futuristic garden and an ecosystem of imaginary real things. It contains small and large instruments-organisms: reactors, collectors, multi-functional capsules, synthetic plants, asteroids, and a central fountain for water treatment and energy production. The objects of Sphere3 invite us to join them in their ecosystem bridging the actual and the imaginary. The installation gives us the opportunity to meditate on our future technology plans as well as the opportunity to reflect on our current situation.

Parts of objects, as living hybrid things connected through networks, subsume an area of our desires projected into the future and simulate a space that is less harmful to the environment. One part of the virtual space is dedicated to the production of plasma-treated water and the production of fusion energy. From huge collectors for storing the various elements needed to create fusion energy to plasma-treated water, all these elements create space for thinking about alternative ways of generating energy for the daily supply of people, industry and treating water for use in medicine and agriculture. Sphere3 is inspired by analogous locations on Earth where simulations, rehearsals and explorations take place, such as Rio Tinto in Spain or Fields in Matis Island.

In Sphere3, in addition to numerous digital machines that can be of molecular or gigantic dimensions, there are four asteroids (Eros, Mithra, Golevka, and Geographos). Due to their possibility of hitting Earth, asteroids are a great threat to humanity and Life in general. Asteroids also give us great hope that in the near future we will be able to draw on an anticipated endless supply of metals, rare minerals, and water composing these flying planetary bodies moving in vast numbers across the universe. The mere thought that we could solve our development and economic problems by obtaining those essential natural elements that are slowly disappearing on Earth sounds like utopia. However improbable it may seem, major advances are under way in actual planning to obtain these needed resources right from those lone planetary bodies passing us by.

In the virtual world of Sphere 3, such multifunctional capsules carry digitized biological material and prepare the ground for extracting material from asteroids. Collectors accumulate material, and reactors participate in a series of material handling processes. Gargoyles regulate water. Photogrammetry pieces show refracting and prismatic elements of reality.

Sector A

AvantGarden: Sphere 3 Sector A
Virtual reality art installation or video work
3D graphics, world building, digital sculptures: Tanja Vujinović
Sound: LUZ1E and Mihajlo Đorović
3D models of asteroids (Eros, Geographos, Golevka, Mithra): Nasa
Executive production: Tanja Vujinović, Jan Kušej
Production: Ultramono, 2020

Consulting
Jan Kušej, Ultramono Institute
Dr Jelena Guga, researcher
Nataša Todorović, Astronomic Observatory Belgrade
Dr Zoran Lj. Petrović, SANU
Dr Lowell Morgan, Physicist, Kinema Research
Dr Vid Podpečan, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Institute Jozef Stefan
Derek Snyder, researcher and editor

Sector A is a virtual futuristic garden and an ecosystem of imaginary real things. It contains small and large instruments-organisms: reactors, collectors, multi-functional capsules, synthetic plants, asteroids, and a central fountain for water treatment and energy production. The objects of Sphere3 invite us to join them in their ecosystem bridging the actual and the imaginary. The installation gives us the opportunity to meditate on our future technology plans as well as the opportunity to reflect on our current situation.

Parts of objects, as living hybrid things connected through networks, subsume an area of our desires projected into the future and simulate a space that is less harmful to the environment. One part of the virtual space is dedicated to the production of plasma-treated water and the production of fusion energy. From huge collectors for storing the various elements needed to create fusion energy to plasma-treated water, all these elements create space for thinking about alternative ways of generating energy for the daily supply of people, industry and treating water for use in medicine and agriculture. Sphere3 is inspired by analogous locations on Earth where simulations, rehearsals and explorations take place, such as Rio Tinto in Spain or Fields in Matis Island.

In Sphere3, in addition to numerous digital machines that can be of molecular or gigantic dimensions, there are four asteroids (Eros, Mithra, Golevka, and Geographos). Due to their possibility of hitting Earth, asteroids are a great threat to humanity and Life in general. Asteroids also give us great hope that in the near future we will be able to draw on an anticipated endless supply of metals, rare minerals, and water composing these flying planetary bodies moving in vast numbers across the universe. The mere thought that we could solve our development and economic problems by obtaining those essential natural elements that are slowly disappearing on Earth sounds like utopia. However improbable it may seem, major advances are under way in actual planning to obtain these needed resources right from those lone planetary bodies passing us by.

In the virtual world of Sphere 3, such multifunctional capsules carry digitized biological material and prepare the ground for extracting material from asteroids. Collectors accumulate material, and reactors participate in a series of material handling processes. Gargoyles regulate water. Photogrammetry pieces show refracting and prismatic elements of reality.

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