Speculative Futures: Robotic Meditation

© Joaquín Fargas

Speculative Futures: Robotic Meditation

Performance: 28 August at 19:00

Event Type: Exhibition

Opening Day: 28th August, 2026

Closing Day: 13th September, 2026

Vernissage: 28.08.2026

Robotic Meditation / Performance: 28.08.2026 19:00

Opening Hours: Thu-Sat, 15:00-18:00 / By appointment: hello@fabrikraum.org

Place: Fabrikraum, Johnstraße 25-27, 1150 Wien

Exhibition Duration: 28th August, 2026 - 13th September, 2026

Exhibition Details:

Speculative Futures: Robotic Meditation imagines a distant future in which humanity has entrusted its continuity to machines. In the work's original narrative, an artificial intelligence discovers a group of half-buried nanny robots, remnants of an intergalactic ark created to safeguard human embryos. Activated by the rising sun, the solar-powered robots slowly move their heads in a gesture of reverence, worshipping the source of their energy as ancient civilizations once did.

Presented as a robotic and video-sound installation, the work invites visitors to enter an immersive meditation guided by Tibetan chants and the synchronized movements of the robots. They are oriented to a video of a technological sun. Their calm gestures contrast with the urgency of today's environmental crisis, raising a fundamental question: if humanity can no longer protect its own habitat, should it delegate the survival of the species to artificial intelligence?

The robots are open-source creations whose assembly instructions can travel digitally and be reproduced anywhere. Rather than transporting physical objects, the project circulates information, allowing a global robotic meditation to materialize across borders.

Special Program:

Extra Event: Robotic Meditation / Performance

Date / Time: 28.08.2026 19:00

Interactive robotic-video-sound installation and performance

Featuring:

Joaquín Fargas

Artist

Biography Artist-engineer // Engineer-artist. Joaquín Fargas integrates the artistic, scientific and technological fields in his work. Through science, he communicates the concepts and theories in a playful and poetical manner. Through art, he teaches how to grasp the properties of nature and become aware of its care. His production is centered on possible or utopian proposals related to life, its preservation and the interrelationship between living beings and the future. In his work, he integrates biological materials and technological media aimed at breaking down barriers and generating possible dialogues and hybrid ecologies. From the beginning of the 2000s, he has been incorporating digital and communication technologies as well as robotics into his artistic practice. Crypto Art, Quantum computing and Artificial intelligence are integrated in his production.

Speculative Futures: Robotic Meditation
© Joaquín Fargas
Speculative Futures: Robotic Meditation
© Joaquín Fargas