Graphic and spatial designer Katharina Ammann explores the influence of online culture on our society and humanity. Images, symbols and avatars from digital media and pop culture come together in immersive installations to provide a new perspective on technological innovation. For this installation, Kathatina Ammann collaborated with Disnovation.org, a collective that specializes in creating labs for unimagined futures.
Every hour more solar energy reaches the earth, than the world uses in a year. The Solar Share is a production lab for the growth of spirulina, an algae rich in vitamins, minerals and proteins. The spirulina algae make use of photosynthesis: converting energy from sunlight into nutrients, thus ensuring its own continuous growth. By growing, harvesting, trading and consuming the algae, The Solar Share offers a different perspective on energy, economics and ecology, with sunlight as the basis for truly valuable growth: natural, stable and regenerative.
Away from keyboard is a documentary series that takes place in a virtual world within the video game called VRChat. Through interviews in three different worlds, the relationship between immersion, virtual and real-life identities is explored.
Episode 1 – Belonging explores the bonds and communities in the world of "Isolated Mind"
Episode 2 – Belief presents ideologies and beliefs on spaceship “Exoplanet Journey
Episode 3 – Bodies takes us to the leisure world of “Sea Breeze,” where online bodies express the players' identities