[FUTURE] TERRITORIES

[FUTURE] TERRITORIES is the 2026 edition of […]TERRITORIES, Das LOT’s transmedia exhibition dedicated to interactive, performative and digital artistic practices. Following [LUDIC] TERRITORIES (2024) and [ARTIFICIAL] TERRITORIES (2025), this edition does not attempt to predict the future. Instead, it investigates how the future is already being imagined, constructed and negotiated in the present.

Co-curated by NODE Media Lab, the exhibition approaches the future not as a distant horizon, but as something embedded in infrastructures, encoded in technologies and continuously rehearsed through bodies, environments and emotions. It unfolds as a field of forces in which data, perception, power, and speculation intersect.

Territory, in this context, extends far beyond land or borders. It emerges through post-geographical conditions: data flows, virtual commons, algorithmic governance, ecological thresholds and human–non-human entanglements. These territories are unstable, porous and often invisible, yet they shape how we act, relate and imagine.

Rather than presenting interaction as a neutral interface or playful feature, [FUTURE] TERRITORIES frames it as a political and emancipatory act. Interaction becomes a way of entering and negotiating territory: of crossing thresholds, confronting systems and reclaiming agency in an age of passive consumption.