To honour the 100th birthday of Stanisław Lem, who often used game theory in his stories, the Patchlab Festival prepared a special section entitled Lemosphere. You will be able to participate in the interactive project Messages to The Post-Human Earth, intended to be experienced in pairs. The work was inspired by Lem’s proposal to encode information about the stored hazardous nuclear waste in the DNA of trees. This unique project, in the form of an audio experience with elements of augmented reality, was created by the British art group Anagram and commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, being premiered at the Botanical Gardens of the Jagiellonian University. Citylights in the space of the Krakow Old Town will become the board of the city game E-LEM-ENTS, inspired by Ijon Tichy’s journeys in the stars. A special audiovisual project by the Iranian artist Ali Phi entitled Infinite Couplet, that was realized in cooperation with the Contemporary Art ARSENAL Gallery in Toronto will be streamed via PLAY KRAKOW online platform.
