The Future of Demonstration

13/01/2026

13/10/2025

ALL FOUR MAIN EVENTS have been video-documented and live-streamed. They can be rewatched via our website or LINK IN BIO
https://thefutureofdemonstration.net/hothouse/stream/index.html

HOTHOUSE’s main events brought together artists, activists, practitioners and thinkers from around the world, blending performance, discourse & installation into 1,5 hour-events.

03/10/2025

Exhibition open today and tomorrow! HOTHOUSE. The Future of Demonstration. Season 5. Come visit us at Atelier Augarten Vienna or online. Stream: https://thefutureofdemonstration.net/hothouse/

28/09/2025

This was DOWN TO EARTH: Countering climate misinformation and inequality in the digital age last Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.

******LAST MAIN EVENT: this Thursday, 02.10., 7pm******

Video-Recording available via link in bio. (https://www.thefutureofdemonstration.net/hothouse/stream/)

DOWN TO EARTH was the third main-event of HOTHOUSE, The Future of Demonstration #5, an art series by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler.

With contributions by:
Camille Belmin, IIASA
Lucas Chancel, World Inequality Lab
Thomas Lohninger, epicenter.works
Marek Tuszynski, Tactical Tech
Performance: Daphna Horenczyk.
Soundscape: Brando Zores Szely.
Special appearance: Soulcat.
The Tribunalistic Ritual: Gerald Nestler, Sylvia Eckermann, Volkmar Klien, Dan Brittain (countertenor) & Choir Kördelör.

26/09/2025

🇦🇹✨ In or around Vienna this evening?

Don’t miss HOTHOUSE III: Countering Climate Misinformation in the Age of AI.

IIASA guest researcher Camille Belmin joins artists, activists, and experts to tackle how digital technologies and AI fuel climate misinformation and polarization - and what can be done about it.

📅 26 Sep | 7-9pm
📍 Atelier Augarten, Vienna

https://iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2025/countering-climate-misinformation-and-inequality-in-digital-age The Future of Demonstration

22/09/2025

Feel invited to WEEK 3 of HOTHOUSE: A renegade lab for democracy against Technocapitalist Authoritarianism

All events are free of charge.
More about each event on our website (link in bio).

20/09/2025

16/09/2025

WEEK 2 of HOTHOUSE. The Future of Demonstration. Season 5
12.09.-04.10. Atelier Augarten Vienna and livestream https://www.thefutureofdemonstration.net/hothouse/

Thursday, 18.09. 7–9 pm
PERFORMATIVE DISCURSIVE ART PROJECT:
“THE ART OF COMPOSITION. Collaborative investigations against weaponized AI.”
Livestream via link in bio. (https://www.thefutureofdemonstration.net/hothouse/stream/)

More on our website: https://www.thefutureofdemonstration.net/hothouse/programme.html #18
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Wednesday, 17.09. 3:30-6 pm
Workshop
“Mapping AI: Tools and Spatial Techniques for Investigating Algorithms”
Júlia Nueno Guitart, Forensic Architecture / Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, London.
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Saturday, 20.09. 4:30–6:30 pm
glO/Assary Session 2
Discourse group convened by adO/Aptive.
With Martin Eichler

Saturday, 20.09. 7–9 pm
TECHNOPOLITICS EVENING 2
on Undisciplined Intelligence
“Too blind to see. Über Datenkolonialismus, AI und (anti-)imperiale Intelligenzen” (in German).
Anna Echterhölter University of Vienna. Präsentation und Gespräch mit Emma Dowling Universität Wien und Felix Stalder Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.

16/09/2025

This week's programme at HOTHOUSE, Atelier Augarten.
More: https://thefutureofdemonstration.net/hothouse/programme.html

16/09/2025

11/09/2025

All HOTHOUSE main events will be also accessible via stream and 3D-Point Cloud Live Video sharing through the following link:

https://www.thefutureofdemonstration.net/hothouse/stream/index.html

HOTHOUSE uses a specially developed technology to connect participants across borders: 3D point cloud video sharing creates a collaborative space of resistance in shared presence, in which we can renegotiated democracy as an open process between humans, machines, and the world we inhabit. 
 
Since 2023, The Future of Demonstration has been working with 3D Point Cloud Video Live Sharing, a technology that opens up new aesthetic and ecological possibilities. This real-time medium allows us to connect virtual and physical space and replace conventional VR-avatars with full 3D-transmission: as if through an ‘osmotic skin’ participants can interact, discuss, and perform live with each other. With its unique artistic and discursive potential, we reimagine VR as a medium for planetary collaboration, activism, and resistance. 

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HOTHOUSE does not use AI to create art. It is not about the aesthetics of machine systems – nor about whether AI can be made “ethical” or “friendlier.” Instead, HOTHOUSE asks how we reclaim democratic agency in the face of technological forces that reproduce and reinforce inequality.