Come to the opening of the software-work Synthesizing Utopias, made in collaboration with students from Next KBH and Gefion Gymnasium. The bar is open and the evening will be fun, utopian, and full of ideas.
Dive into a growing archive of young people's fantastic visions of the future. Synthesizing Utopias is an interactive, generative digital artwork based on a dynamic dataset of utopian fragments, developed by young creators.
Basement becomes host for a video game world that allows for the synthesis, remixing and combining dreams of the future into new collective speculation for utopia. What does the future look like? - And who is involved in dreaming it?
Throughout the spring of 2026, visual artist and game developer Esben Holk has invited students from Next KBH and Gefion Gymnasium to worldbuild and visualize personal visions for a shared future and donate them to a video game work central to the exhibition. Now the dataset has been poured into the software machine, and you can come and explore the students' hopeful ideas for the future.
Opening Friday 5 June at 5-10 pm
With assistance, art, and utopia from:
Alex Odder Jacobsen, Laurits Hejlsted Kristensen, Lily Bloxham Olsen, Mika Isaac Rehhoff, Mark Vincent Szczepaniak & deres klassekamerater på Next Gymnasium, og Lilje Mathilde Stenersen Alm, Katrine Lily Andersen, Ida Marie Birk Andersen, Lucca Bint Mushtaq Andersen, Vera Gudbjerg Boesen, Karen Præstiин Brandt, Eva Cayla Jacobsen Damm, Hanna Lindgren Facius, Cassandra Rosa Garfort, David William Levring Gravesen, Jamilla Angelina Tokyo Ghani, Sophia Veronika Jensen, Asta Søgaard Jensen, Natali Nørvang Kristensen, Selma Buchardt Kronborg, Maryam El Morad, Silje Givskov Møller, Karla Hummel Nathan, Alma Nedergård Kjeldsen, Lærke Luna Dion Petersen, Uma Sarina von Seelen Ploug, Elliott Rørbech, Isabel Lunøe Moya, Annabell Rølund Torp, Annabelle Tvedegaard McGuire, Nora Anastasia Polianski Thompson, Lula Arabella Thejsen, Sofie Sønder Grossjohann, Emmanour Mathiesen på Gefion Gymnasium
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