Synthetic By Nature

Presented within the immersive environment of the Digital Dome, this programme explores the evolving relationship between technology and nature. Dome technologies have long been used to extend human vision — allowing us to look beyond the limits of the eye, into the sky, the universe, and the hidden structures of the world around us. The artists in this programme take up this expanded field of perception in different ways.

In Entangled Structures, Austrian artist MONOCOLORl creates digital forms that appear to ebb and flow under the influence of natural forces. Meanwhile, South Korean artist Jiha Jeon's Fixing the Rare: Breeder A imagines a future in which technology becomes a means of controlling nature, preserving life and resisting disappearance. French artist and filmmaker Lydia Yakonowsky's La méthode des moments borrows the language of the statistical "method of moments," transforming graphs and numerical forms into a poetic meditation on the cycles of life, the passage of time and the pull of nostalgia.

Together, the works ask how digital technologies might not only reveal nature, but also reshape our desire to master, capture, or commune with it.