[FUTURE] TERRITORIES

FUTURE TERRITORIES is the 2026 edition of …TERRITORIES, Das LOT’s transmedia exhibition dedicated to interactive, performative and digital artistic practices. Following LUDIC TERRITORIES (2024) and ARTIFICIAL TERRITORIES (2025), this edition does not attempt to predict the future. Instead, it investigates how the future is already being imagined, constructed and negotiated in the present.

Co-curated by NODE Media Lab, the exhibition approaches the future not as a distant horizon, but as something embedded in infrastructures, encoded in technologies and continuously rehearsed through bodies, environments and emotions. It unfolds as a field of forces in which data, perception, power, and speculation intersect.

Territory, in this context, extends far beyond land or borders. It emerges through post-geographical conditions: data flows, virtual commons, algorithmic governance, ecological thresholds and human–non-human entanglements. These territories are unstable, porous and often invisible, yet they shape how we act, relate and imagine.

Rather than presenting interaction as a neutral interface or playful feature, FUTURE TERRITORIES frames it as a political and emancipatory act. Interaction becomes a way of entering and negotiating territory: of crossing thresholds, confronting systems and reclaiming agency in an age of passive consumption.

The exhibition itself operates as a living system, an environment to be navigated, activated and continuously reshaped by its visitors. Within this evolving landscape, the selected works function as entry points into different modalities of the future