Trailer for the upcoming project Sphere3

MetaGarden is an imaginary-real world that exists both in virtual and real space. It is segmented into related Spheres. The conceptual framework of the garden also allows us to think about the current networks that we are part of. They oftentimes seem like they are built on foundations of social well-being and care, yet these sometimes simultaneously harm us and threaten our privacy and existential agency. Speculating about the systems that we will be part of in the future is interesting, yet our reality is full of unresolved directions of our future development. Within gardens, we forge connections with the organic and the non-organic.Throughout history, the garden as a sheltered environment is constantly re-emerging as a special location for recreation and our contact with nature. Throughout MetaGarden, the question lingers: what will our future gardens look like? More about the project: www.tanjav.art Tanja Vujinović: Sphere3 Production: Ultramono Institute Coproduction of work Plasmonika: Finetuned Limited and EUROfusion Coproduction of work Island: SciArtLab IJS The project is supported by the City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture Collaborators: Jan Kušej (Ultramono Institute) Jože Zajec, ScenArt Dr Luka Suhadolnik, Department for Nanostructured Materials, Jožef Stefan Institute Dr Vid Podpečan, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Institute Jozef Stefan Luzie Seidel (LUZ1E), https://soundcloud.com/l-v-z-1-e Mihajlo Đorović, https://soundcloud.com/summerdeaths Special thanks to the following people for their creative advice in developing this project: Julian Weaver, artist and curator, Finetuned Limited Tomo Per, RogLab Dr Jelena Guga, researcher Arijana Filipić, Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology, National Institute of Biology Nataša Todorović, Astronomic Observatory Belgrade Dr Zoran Lj. Petrović, SANU Dr Lowell Morgan, Physicist, Kinema Research Dr Gregor Primc, Department of Surface Engineering, Jožef Stefan Institute Dr Rok Zaplotnik, Department of Surface Engineering, Jožef Stefan Institute Dr Saša Novak, Department of Nanostructured materials, Jožef Stefan Institute Derek Snyder, researcher and editor

Sphere3 is a 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. It is an invitation to think about the ecologies of the world and the networks we are part of. This futuristic synthetic biosphere is the place of the possible, the actual, and their mutual interplay.