Sascha Pohflepp: Power Points of the Far Future

On view 1 – 31 January 2018

PowerPoints of the Far Future turns the events from Wikipedia's „Timeline of the Far Future" — a list of ridiculously far-off cosmological events — into calls-to-action. Algorithmically generated slides present imagery while statements about various fates are constructed as either futures, the present or modal statements. Presenting a series of increasingly distant events, visions of extinction become farcical futures. (SP)

Commissioned by The Photographers Gallery and Goethe Institut London
Software development by Sam Klitsner

Sascha Pohflepp is an artist and researcher whose work is known to probe the role of technology in our efforts to understand and influence our environment. His practice often involves collaboration with other artists and researchers, creating work on subjects ranging from synthetic biology and artificial intelligence to geopolitics and space exploration. Notable exhibitions include "Talk To Me" at Museum of Modern Art in New York City, "Hyperlinks" at the Art Institute of Chicago, "Micro Impact" at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, and „alien matter" at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (transmediale 2017). He holds a diploma from the Berlin University of the Arts and a Masters degree in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London. Currently he is pursuing a PhD at the University of California, San Diego, and teaches in the Visual Art Department.