Illustration Angela Smets, Text Sylvia Rieburg-Ganns Why do we collect visions of the future? You can find out here! I sigh – it feels wonderful. With both hands I dig in a warm, silty mass …
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Correcting childhood – the world in a hundred years
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“We do not have the future in our hands”
On her weblog she calls herself Tona. Actually, her name is Waltraud. But Tona fits better with the Italian surname. Besides, her husband calls himself Tano. In her name, it is a simple letter reversal …
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About the Essential in Abstract Art: Who is Kim Kluge?
Photo by Dennis Divinagracia Kim Kluge graduated with honors at University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig in 1999. Ever since she has been working as a freelance artist. She explores as an ongoing process a …
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Power mode climbing flight – please 100 years back and retour again
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ Text by Peter Worschech Holzkirchen, February 2121: I was rummaging around in the cellar among some rotten pieces of cloth and found a yellowed record of my great-grandfather Peter. This rare …
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Will Homo Sapiens Survive? (2/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Reality Let’s start by describing reality. What are our biggest problems? How will technology and humanity develop? …
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Prologue: What is the purpose of “Terraism – a New Concept to Save the Planet”? (1/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. It all started with the big bang 13.8 billion years ago The earth has existed for about …
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The Presence of Eternity – Who is Heide Schimke?
A simultaneous experience of nature and digital techniques: Kunsthalle Zürich Trained in researching mental states, the psychologist Heide Schimke extends her knowledge of the human condition to artistic horizons of experience. For this purpose she …
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Utopia on a chip – The world in a hundred years.
Illustration Susanne Gold/ Text Arthur Pease To commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of the construction of the Acropolis, governments have commissioned the planning and testing of a future city in the virtual world – a city …
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The Mystery of Innocence
Text and Illustration: Arthur Pease When painting, I am drawn toward images in which a disaster is unfolding but is nevertheless invisible to the protagonists, thus the name of my favorite painting, “The Mystery of …
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Ancestor gallery or utopia: pictures of people who have not yet been born?
Text Corinna Heumann / Illustration: numbers(e)motion, cpf. The art of the futuristic portrait Conceptual art physicist Christiane Pacyna-Friese depicts people living in a future, their talents and attitudes towards life in sound images. A touchable …
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Birth, life and death, shapes and sounds in colors.Who is Christiane Pacyna-Friese?
Dr. Christiane Pacyna-Friese (cpf) was born in 1953. She studied physics in Bonn and received her doctorate in foundry sciences in Clausthal-Zellerfeld. Today she works as a consultant for foundries and logistics companies as well …
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World government instead of Alpine monarchy – The world in a hundred years.
Illustration Susanne Gold/ Text Jörg Puma Many democratic nation states were unable to bridge the centrifugal forces between the different values of their increasingly demanding fellow citizens. Classic popular parties with this claim, such as …
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Mac speed of light – delivery service in space: The world in a hundred years.
Illustration and Text Lena Reifenhäuser What will the world be like in a hundred years? This is a really interesting question.. especially as (almost) everyone who is reading this right now will already be watching …
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Dystopia or utopia? The world in a hundred years.
Illustrations Corinna Harss/ text Rike Pätzold Two scenarios – a utopia and a dystopia. The variable is connectedness or “earthliness”, as Bruno Latour calls it very nicely in his terrestrial manifesto. Dystopia – low connectivity …
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The unpredictability of life: Who is Lena Reifenhäuser?
Lena Reifenhäuser was born in 1986 in Troisdorf and lives in Bonn. In 2018 she graduated from the Alanus University of Art and Society in Alfterbei Bonn with a degree in Fine Arts with a …
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Freedom and surveillance. The world in a hundred years.
Illustration Susanne Gold/ Text Jörg Puma Life in 2121 years is different. There is an extensive freedom. However, it is restricted by extensive surveillance. But the freedom to choose a suitable home. – From the …
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Artists at the Zoo – The world in a hundred years!
Illustration and text by Cornelia Harss Analogue painters will be rare zoo animals. In the year 2120 there will be no more brush-swinging artists. Painting will then be produced on the computer.
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Creativity as a driving force and means of criticism: Who is Cornelia Harss?
Cornelia Harss was born 1958 in Sigmaringen. Already as a child she painted and won prizes. She often made caricatures of her teachers at school. In her later life she continued to paint and caricature. …
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Many people and gigantic migratory movements: The world in 100 years.
Illustration Angela Smets/ Text Ulrich Eberl The world in 100 years’ time – or at least the world of 2100 – is one that our children, but certainly their children, can still experience. It is …
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Not just a vocation: Who is Ella Priesnitz?
Ella Priesnitz was born 1988, lives and works in Munich. Not being able to commit oneself to just one calling and passion may sound like commitment phobia to some people, but for Ella Priesnitz it …
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Two types of people and buildings that are slowly decaying: The world in a hundred years.
Illustration and text Annette von der Bey A hundred years from now, people will live on the layers of garbage with which we so diligently cover the earth. I think it is likely that after …
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We are stardust
Illustration and text by Susanne Gold The atoms in my body are ancient – old, like the stones of the world and the stars in the firmament. We can absorb and utilize the substances of …
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The game with all its traces, shadows and structures as inspiration – Who is Angela Smets?
Angela Smets was born 1965 in Bocholt, Germany. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The all-round artist works as a graphic artist, designer, painter and illustrator. She holds creative workshops and …
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Fully automatic self-healing – the world in a hundred years
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The perfectionist who is inspired by life: Eugen Schramm!
Eugen Schramm comes from the Russian Miasskoje (born 31.1.1979) and spent his childhood years in Schumowo, Moscow and finally in Anapa on the Black Sea. What drives you, Eugen? I am a very curious person …
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Sensitive as humans. Portable magnetic skin.
Illustration Corinna Heumann / Text Susanne Gold A hand that delicately strokes the soft material of a piece of velvet, feels the landing of a butterfly or tenderly grips the hand of another: Feeling – …
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Art that stands for itself. Who is Annette von der Bey?
Annette von der Bey was born in Remscheid in 1965. She studied fine arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1990 she became one of Professor Fritz Schwegler’s Meisterschüler. Since then she has been working on …
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On and off – true and false!
Illustrations Corinna Heumann / Text Susanne Gold 0 and 1 Most people know the binary system primarily in the context of computers and calculates in the decimal system. We have ten digits from 0 to …
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Looking for the moon inside her – Who is Sharon Calman?
Sharon Calman is an artist and healer from Bonn. Born 1980 in Siegburg, Germany, she developed painting and drawing as her way of expression already as a child. Also early in her life she had …
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The World Parliament – Policy 2.0?
Illustration Corinna Heumann / Text Susanne Gold The nation state – an obsolescent model? Will Web 2.0 and social networks change world politics? The Internet has made our world transparent, just as the Cambrian explosion …
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‘Paradise 4.0’ – In 100 years, we’ll be controlling everything with our minds.
by Corinna Heumann The technology behind it is no longer visible. We can only guess at it. We only move for sport and fun. The symbol for this is the apple from the tree of …
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Why do we collect visions of the future?
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She who drives beauty, truth and love – Corinna Heumann!
Portrait by Dennis Divinagracia/ Text by Susanne Gold After studying law, Corinna Heumann studied art at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC and at the Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art in New …
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Holy trees – the world in a hundred years
Illustration by Sharon Calman /Text by Sabine Kunz If you look closely, you can still see notches in my weathered ancient trunk. I think they were letters and a heart. That was a long time …
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Artificial Intelligence: Are We All Going Stupid and Unemployed?
Illustration and Text by Susanne Gold Companies of all kinds today use artificial intelligence, to forecast demand, hire workers or meet customer needs to be identified. Artificial intelligence is a billion-dollar business. Google even …
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Successful in old age: Late developer Artificial Intelligence!
Not everyone is born during a conference. He already! Why is he only successful with more than 50 years, our artificial colleague?
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We are one we are Love – The world in a hundred years
Illustration Susanne Gold/ Text Melanie Dorn
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In the glass train of time – the world in a hundred years
Illustration by Sharon Calman /Text by Claudia Conen It is a day in January 2019 – I love life in the here and now There’s a transparent train I get on. I can see everything …
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Orgasmic future – the world in a hundred years
Illustration by Sharon Calman / Text by Beate Werner The future will be peaceful and orgasmic Babies are born in orgasm, people live orgasmically and die in orgasm. Men, women, children of all races of …
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The world in a hundred years: Xyril
Illustration by Sharon Calman/ Text by Madeleine Blaschke Here and now You can see in their big and sad eyes that they were once awake and once bubbling with ideas and inspiration. Xyrill blows a …
