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“The topic of the future is on everyone’s lips. People feel threatened by various developments. It can help to turn that around and take action,” says “Fabrikant”, filmmaker and live artist Gerald Harringer. As with the UNESCO “Futures Literacy” initiative, it is about “learning an alphabet for the future so that you can create and act yourself. We try to use the different approaches of experts to create new images and motivate them to to deal more with the future, also in a playful way.” Because: “The future is not something that comes over us, but what we do with our time now,” says “Fabrikant” and communications designer Wolfgang Preisinger.
On January 20th, a young expert will welcome the guests at five tables – including Arshan Edalatkhah, a computer science student who created an award-winning “neighborhood app” during the pandemic, and Jakob Lasinger, a chemistry student and musician. “The experts are in their twenties, so the future affects them much more than it does us. They all have cool visions and will try to seduce the guests into different images of the future” than those collected by the “manufacturers” in a survey are: “We noticed that people are living in restorative times. They are happy when they are healthy, when we have some degree of control over climate change. That’s all great, but very well thought out. There are probably completely different things lurking inside everyone Images of the future.”
Artistic performances await in three other salons at Hauptplatz 23: In the attic, Katrin Wölger will “embody the dystopian. As someone who is afraid of the future, she barricades herself behind canned goods and toilet paper supplies – the white gold of the pandemic,” says Preisinger. Its mission will be to “inspire visitors to engage in further conversation and imagery.”
Dead philosophers speak
Game designer Clara Hirschmanner, who has just been awarded a talent development award by the state, will also invite you to take short tours of the city. The Linz artist collective Time’s Up has set to music what the future could sound like: “Between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., the events turn into a party, for which Times Up created the background noise with ‘Sounds of the Future’.”
The location itself at Hauptplatz 23, where “Die Fabrikanten” has been based on the second floor for a good two years, is also a vision of the future. “The house addresses future working environments: There is a co-working space, studio rooms, a recording studio, coaching rooms,” says Harringer. Last but not least, the live art evening “Whisper Blowing” is also part of a future-oriented vision – with the research and development company RISC in Hagenberg: “We would like to develop a chatbot together on the topic of ‘Linz and its future’. Chatbots normally try to “To meet expectations. We would like to break this logic. The selection of data would have to be different.”
Another playful project on artificial intelligence can be found on the “Fabrikanten” homepage. A podcast series, the “Dilemmablog”, resurrects deceased philosophers – Hannah Arendt, Viktor Frankl, Michel Foucault and Simone de Beauvoir – to whom ChatGPT gave their voices.
January 20th, from 6 p.m., remaining tickets by email: whisper@fabrikanten.at, www.fabrikanten.at
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