“Closed Reality — Embryo” in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka
An interactive game on the Internet in which players create embryos
Exhibition from the MMSU collection “Where is this cloud flouting”, curated by Ksenija Orelj and Sabina Salamon. 14.6. – 25.8.2023. / MMSU Rijeka.
The web project, created in 1999, is based on an interactive game on the Internet in which players create their own virtual offspring, choosing between different genetically determined characteristics. The resulting embryos are displayed in the ’embryo gallery’, and all data is stored in the database. The second part consists in the comparison of the society of virtual people created by visitors, with the inhabitants of the “real” modern society.
Authors: Andreja Kulunčić (visual artist, concept and project manager), Trudy Lane (designer), Gabrijela Sabol (sociologist), Matija Pužar (programmer) and Ivo Martinović (photographer).
The project has participated in over 20 different exhibitions and festivals around the world, among the most significant are the Youth Biennale in Rome, the Mediaterra Festival in Athens, the Media Arts Festival in Osnabruck (Germany), the FILE Festival in Sao Paolo, the Ambijenta exhibition in Sarajevo, the exhibition in Brewery Project in Los Angeles, the Double Life exhibition in Vienna, the Tell a Story exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, at the India Triennial…