2023/06/01

Fragmentin’s Buckminster Fuller-Inspired ‘World Console’ Challenges Technocracy—and Taunts Audiences

Swiss artist collective Fragmentin premieres G80 (2023), a Mudac-commissioned interactive installation, within the London Design Biennale “Global Game” exhibition at Somerset House. A console interpretation of Buckminster Fuller’s “World Game” of equitable resource distribution, G80 challenges notions of total control and technocracy. 80 correlated sliders invite negotiation of societal values—freedom, GDP, ecology etc.—and taunt viewers with a motorized choreography when left alone.

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