A meditation on the state of our own diminishing environment is transformed into a contemplation about environments outside of our blue-green planet and the potential consequences of reaching them. Visitors explore an alien landscape and are confronted with their own unique human footprint on the surface of another planet while reflecting on the relationship humanity has with its own environment - both immediate, and in the distant future. The 3D landscape and relief of the surface of the planet Mars is created through wires that are hung up in a semi-circular frame. The installation in its undisturbed state shows the evolution of an alien ecosystem, live-time generated by an algorithm (based on cellular automata). As the audience explores this alien landscape they will interfere with both video projection and soundscape. Through motion sensors, their human outline is made visible on the alien landscape.

Part of the permanent exhibition at the Lumina Gallery in Prague as of 2024.

The installation was commissioned by DEPO2015 cultural space in 2015, which is one of the key components of the “Pilsen – European Capital of Culture 2015” project. It was an accompanying exhibition of Ryoji Ikeda’s “test pattern [n°7]” in summer 2015. It has also been displayed in the alternative space Hol, in Prague, Czech Republic.

Created by the AV collective FotonX.
Kristýna Balaban (artistic concept, visuals, wire installation), Adam Široký and Nicola Pavone (programming, video-mapping, realisation), Kryštof Koenigsmark (sound, realisation), Alexandra Benická (realisation).