Untold Garden is an art and design studio exploring how technology can catalyse interpersonal
relationships and enable alternative human experiences. By creating participatory systems, they urge the audience
to question who controls our online presence and speculate on how we might interact in the future. Their
experience-driven systems use cutting-edge machine learning technologies and scalable networking infrastructures
to unearth new types of ecologies created in the ever-accelerating technological maelstrom. In their projects,
they aim to go beyond the distinction between tools and objects and instead see each object as a potential
platform to enable new ideas. Their works include physical installations, virtual sculptures, interactive
performances, artificial natures and experimental social networks.
Untold, as in too many to be counted, the algorithmic inimitability of virtual
worlds, and the near-endless esthetic capabilities of brain-replicating machines, rendering any solidity of
aesthetics useless. Untold, as well as in not narrated or told by us, as our projects speak through those who
experience them, each artwork unique to everyone who partakes in it.
Garden, as in the continuously evolving dance of mutual dependency between
humans and natures - in the plural. Natures that are today both physical and virtual, through the numerous
entities facilitating, mediating and obfuscating the human existence online, new digital ecosystems teeming with
life, a nascent flora of human-made but non-human agencies.
We do both self-initiated and commissioned projects. We collaborate with engineers, scientists, artists,
designers, architects, researchers and others. Our team consist of
Max Čelar,
Jakob Skote, and
Michael Brewster. We frequently collaborate with
Lundahl & Seitl,
Paper
Birds, and
Andrea Abbruzzese.
We're based in London and Malmö and work across the globe.
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Current and upcoming Exhibitions & Performances:
- Slakthusområdet, March - April 2025, Stockholm (Streetlight Harvesters)
- Screen City Biennial, March 2024, Stavanger (Garden of Ghost Flowers)
Past Exhibitions & Performances:
- British Art Fair PIVOTAL: Digitalism, September 2024, London (Reach)
- CPH:Dox, March 2024, Copenhagen (Garden of Ghost Flowers)
- Nobel Prize Museum, October 2023, Stockholm (Garden of Ghost Flowers)
- BFI London Film Festival, October 2023, London (Fleeting Figures & Interspatial Echoes)
- Annka Kultys Gallery, October 2023, London (Interspatial Echoes)
- Vävda rum (Woven Places), May-September 2023, Across Sweden (Interspatial Echoes)
- BFI London Film Festival, October 2022, London (Apparatus Ludens)
- STRP Festival, April 2022, Eindhoven (Garden of Ghost Flowers)
- Form/Design Center, October 2021, Malmö (Apparatus Ludens - Prototype)
- Overkill Festival, Nov - Dec 2021, Enschede (Apparatus Ludens - Prototype)
- KØS, October 2021, Køge (Unknown Cloud)
- Celsius Projects, June 2021, Malmö (Unknown Cloud)
- Kiblix, December 2021 (Skiljelinjer)
- Stockholm Design Week, February 2021 (Skiljelinjer)
Contact
studio@untold.garden
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UK Office
Hackney Depot
5 Sheep Ln
London
E8 4QS
Sweden Office
Spånehusvägen 83
214 39
Malmö