Untold Garden

19/07/2024

We are very excited to be showing new work at the British Art Fair this September. Working on something beyond distinctions between physical and digital, tangible and intangible, present and absent. Stay tuned for more updates!

[They] cannot hear each other; they cannot see each other. They can only feel the other's warmth. That is their poetry, that is their art.

- Ursula K Le Guin, from The Author of the Acacia Seeds

British Art Fair is introducing a new section for digital art called PIVOTAL: Digitalism. It will present the very best digital art being created and exhibited in Britain today and will be a first for a UK art fair.

14/12/2022

Very happy to be a part of this amazing project! Vävda rum (Woven Places) is a large scale AR exhibition featuring new work by 10 artists, displayed at thousands of locations over Sweden. 🔥🧚‍♂️🏺

The exhibition will open in May 2023, with the geographically biggest exhibition opening in history 🥂🥂🥂

Ulrika Flink, the project's curator, has written a really salient text on the theme of the exhibition (in Swedish): https://sverigeskonstforeningar.nu/virveln/kurator-ulrika-flink-om-tematiken-i-vavda-rum/

Machine translation:
" Our modern lives outside our homes, regardless of whether we live in the countryside, in a big city or in a smaller town, are often described in Swedish social debate as characterized by increased insecurity and polarization. In recent years, a description of an increasingly conflict-filled contemporary has gained ground. The public space is coded as a place where we have to overcome different obstacles, from the loss of common non-commercial spaces, to service that puts down different types of dangers when we move to and from school, the grocery store, the pharmacy or the gas station. But it is precisely on the street, on the playground or in the park that we meet outside of our own social constellations of friendship and family. It is in the public space that we have an opportunity to see each other. How can we, aware of all the movement that takes place in the public spaces that are created and remade in an age of accelerated privatization, mobility of people and things, maintain our curiosity, joy and willingness to rediscover the familiar together with others?

⭐️Äntligen kan vi berätta om ytterligare tre konstnärerna som kommer vara en del av utställningen Vävda rum, nämligen Eric Magassa från Göteborg, Untold Garden från Simrishamn och Pastelae från Piteå.

📣Vi vill också informera om att vi förlängt deadlinen att anmäla sitt intresse av att vara värd för Vävda rum till den 5 februari. På vår webb hittar du allt du behöver veta om Vävda rum. FAQ, informationsfilmer och presentation av konstnärerna. https://sverigeskonstforeningar.nu/projekt/vavda-rum-utstallning-med-ar-konst/



Projektet Vävda rum är initierat av Riksförbundet Sveriges Konstföreningar och finansieras av Svenska Postkodstiftelsen

24/05/2022

We’re looking for RIBA Part I & Part II graduates!

Details at “untold.garden/join”

14/04/2022

Last weekend we showed a prototype of Garden of Ghost Flowers at STRP festival in Eindhoven, an experential artwork that uses VR technology not to transport the visitors to a distant virtual world, but to make visible what is already present between them in the room.

Through using their voices the visitors bring a virtual entity to life, a Ghost Flower, growing from the vocal interactions of the group. Each visit is different, each group providing a unique biotope for the flower to grow in.

Thank you to everyone that came and experienced it, to all the volunteers that helped with all the crucial practicalities, and to the team at STRP who made this possible.

Coartists
Dramaturgy by Rachel Alexander
Sound by

09/04/2022

Today at we are doing Scenario #18 Infinite Conversations: a conversation with media philosopher Yuk Hui, , departing from the themes of our project Garden of Ghost Flowers. The talk is mediated by philosopher Miriam Rasch, and will be followed by a conversation i complete darkness.

This is a part of STRP's Scenario program, which hosts conversations with artists about how their work relate to technology, society and the individual. You can follow the talk with Yuk Hui and join the conversation in the dark from online. Link in bio.

Garden of Ghost Flowers is a trans-disciplinary and perennial artwork striving to find new perspectives on how technology can frame human relations, how physical bodies can inhabit virtual worlds, and on new forms of artificial life. We have been very inspired by Yuk Hui's thoughts in the development of this artwork, and are very grateful to get the chance to have a conversation with him about these topics.

Yuk Hui calls for a technodiversity, not diversity within technology but a diversity of technologies, as a response to the philosophical monoculture underpinning contemporary technology. In his own words, “Without technodiversity, we only have homogenous ways of dealing with nonhuman agencies and the world itself—as if homogeneous equals universal.” The Garden of Ghost Flowers is an attempt at finding other ways for technology to frame human relations, outside of the instrumentalised and controlled conceptions of tech that we are accustomed to.

*Of that which is not me, but of which I am a part*

Garden of Ghost Flowers and Scenario reated together with
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Sound design by
dramaturgy Rachel Alexander

09/12/2021

Stills from the most recent iteration of Apparatus Ludens, What is your favorite flower? An interactive film by Untold Garden, currently shown at in Malmö until 16 January.

Sound design by , architecture by , and voice by

those flowers will for always grow in your footsteps

they will dance for you, and sing for you

absorb all to yourself and to this song

01/11/2021

Unknown Cloud performance extends your senses to spatially experience distortions of time and space within a group.

Unknown Cloud is an artwork we’re creating together with in collaboration with and Rachel Alexander.

Each experience influences the next unknown cloud formation and makes it evolve for years to come.

19/08/2021

Description
A great opportunity to work in a small team of artists, designers and developers, creating R&D for immersive art installations and tools. Initial tasks will include developing generative systems for a VR installation and systems for a geolocated group AR experience. 
The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing high-quality applications. They will also be responsible for designing and implementing testable and scalable code. 
We are looking for a software engineer who:
• Is interested in XR & Art
• Ability to work independently and is self-motivated
• Is able to work remotely as well as in-person when required

Salary
£35,000 (for full-time, half for part-time)

Responsibilities
• Develop quality software and web applications
• Analyse and maintain existing software applications
• Design highly scalable, testable code
• Discover and fix programming bugs
• Plan efficient software architecture
• Create prototypes through R&D
• Work with front end developers and designers

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
• C++ & C # Proficient
• Shader Development (HLSL & GLSL)
• Experience with developing compute shaders for Unity game engine.
• Experience with developing plugins and systems for Unity game engine.
• Experience with developing networking stacks
• Experience with XR
• Experience with developing for mobile platforms
*But don’t hesitate to contact us if you feel that you fit the description but can’t check all of these boxes.

Additional (non-essential) skills:
• Experience with ARKit and/or ARCore
• Experience with genetic algorithms.
• Experience with L-systems.
• Experience with voxel graphics.
• Experience with developing web applications.
• Javascript
• Node.js
• MongoDB and/or Firebase

11/02/2021

Jakob Sköte, Blivande member and co-creator of several Blivande projects, is being exhibited at Ung Svensk Form at Stockholm Design Week, happening now!

Skiljelinjer, Swedish for "lines of demarcation", is an architectural research project exploring new tools and decision-making frameworks for collaborative design processes. They have built a custom augmented reality design tool that lets users create collaboratively. The tool can be used in a shared physical space for an in-person workshop, or used from home for a remote workshop.

Skiljelinjer is a project by Untold Garden - an experiential art and design studio exploring new tools for participatory design and immersive experiences.