DigitEyes – Speculative Fictions in the Metaverse
Workshop alongside Claudia Strate
5-8 PM
Drawing from the theoretical provocations of Donna Haraway, the radical imaginations of Ursula K. Le Guin, and the disruptive energies of glitch and xenofeminist manifestos, we will explore how digital tools can be used not to mirror the world as it is, but to invent it anew. Working with Unity and other creative software, participants will engage in the practice of worlding—a situated, speculative, and embodied approach to imagining space, systems, and stories through the lens of the digital.
Rather than producing conventional speculative fiction, we'll dive into the architecture of possibility: crafting interactive digital environments where the logics of urbanism and architecture are rewired, glitched, and reimagined. Alongside this, Claudia Strate will guide participants in intertwining speculative fiction with digital practice, using writing as a tool to generate narratives, expand worldbuilding, and deepen the conceptual layers of the environments we create. Together, we ask: What does a feminist server city look like? How does a posthuman ecology shape its built environment? What kind of urban logic grows out of alien kinships, broken infrastructure, or technological refusal?
DigitEyes is a digital portal for immersive exhibitions, offering a curated selection of socially, politically, and ecologically relevant works that contribute to the contemporary discourse in Vienna's art and cultural landscape. These are not digital reproductions, but newly created spaces filled with artifacts and stories that unfold beyond real-world limitations. DigitEyes thus expands the classic museum experience and provides a platform for reflective and forward-oriented art mediation.
Claudia Strate is a writer, political scientist and cultural organiser based in Vienna. Claudia is interested in the narrative/poetic dimensions of political discourse, playful imagination and speculative world-building as creative practice; and greatly inspired by fairytales, children’s literature and aimless strolls.
The exhibition and Public Programme are supported by MA7, BMWKMS and 15. District
Exhibition curated by Joanna Zabielska
Visual Design by Ale Zapata