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Climate collapse, displacement, flight, political persecution, war and exclusion – while the media landscape is characterised by dystopian topics, the Chaos Computer Club has been trying to set an example of a utopia for society for over 42 years now. More precisely: the chaos environment is characterised by various ideas of utopias.

Together with artistic, chaos-related beings, we want to present some of these futures and ideas to you on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of the CCC.

The digital (and physical exhibition at 38C8) is characterised by classic themes such as literature, visual arts, film and poetry - but video games, 3D animation, generative art and radio plays are also used.

With the help of these utopias, we want to present, inspire and motivate you with positive visions of the future from the CCC environment.

The artists have applied with their projects for 2024. An advisory board set up for this purpose selected 12 projects from the more than 100 project presentations, which were supported with 420 – 4200 €.

A book whose cover shows the title. The cover looks like a borrow card from an old library. The last entry is from 2042.

2042 – The Forbidden Library

Klaudia 'jinxx' Zotzmann-Koch

novella
A utopian novella about civil resistance in a world between climate catastrophe and the will for positive social change.
Drawing with a rainbow-colored background. It shows a standing rocket, a large tent, an antenna mast and the signs ̈́“Neuland” and “Don't Panic”. Above it is written in colorful letters: Beauty in Chaos. Some of the letters are replaced by numbers in a Leetspeak-like manner.

Beauty in Chaos

smettbo & naerrin

narrative role playing game
Players develop utopian visions and hopes together in order to transform technical dystopias into utopias.
Ein Screenshot von einem Computerspiel in futuristischer Wireframe-Optik. Ein Mensch steht auf einer breiten Straße umgeben von Bäumen. Darüber ein Sternenhimmel, eine Rakete, und der Titel Cubetopia. Das Logo sieht aus wie eine schematische Zeichnung eines Würfels.

Cubetopia

Eva Infeld, Brett Alexander Preston, Davide Di Stasio, Natalia Vish, Jacek Wesołowski

narrative art video game
Build your own perfect future, one decision at a time.
The title Dis_abled disruption drabbles. There are rainbow-colored rounded stripes in the corners.

Dis_Abled Disruption Drabbles

Lena Richter, C. F. Srebalus, Sarah Baumgart, Nora Bendzko, Jamie-Lee Campbell, Jenny Cazzola, Carole Jenny Holzmann, Tanja Kollodzieyski, Britta Redweik, Daniela Schreiter, Noah Stoffers

10 × 100-word texts
10 authors, 10 utopias, 10 visions of the future from a dis_abled perspective in exactly 100 words.
An interwoven pattern of white, red and blue lines. Some end in leaves, others in VGA plugs.

interlaced

bleeptrack

generative art
Uses interwoven patterns of plants and cables to playfully demonstrate that technology and nature can coexist in harmony.
A picture in black and white raster graphics. A poster reads Living in Utopia and contains a little heart. The poster is surrounded by purple lines.

prompt engineering

Paula Berger, Malte Grotendorst

short film
Voice messages in the future: six flickering frames per second, the light is gently psychedelic, text-based prompts create a hovering sociality. We'd call this a utopia.
Drawing of a laptop, whose display shows the title Remembering Freedom

Remembering Freedom

John McNeil

essay
An essay on the first 558 years of the internet.
Turquoise-red streaks of color behind the title Rupture Remedy

Rupture/Remedy

Rosemary Lee

poetic video
A poetic apology for the chaotic unfairness of the world.
Photo of a green plant growing from underneath a human toenail

The Great Rewilding

Brendan Howell, Sonja Nilsson

short film
A child of a future civilization describes how humanity transitioned from a technological, denatured society to a holistic one, by connecting with plants and fungi.
TODO

An improbable journey

Mascha Schädlich, Björn Rzymann, Markus Saborowski

radio play
A journey to the utopian year 2242! Roha, Tuxah and the scrap dealer accompany a visitor who is struggling with the improbability of his own appearance in the utopia.
3D scene (not animated) showing a street at sundown. In the distance there is a cityscape with lots of high-rise buildings with trees and greenery growing on them. The street has lots of green as well, tiny garden plots where maize and tomatoes are growing a, child is suspended in mid-air while jumping into a pool, cars have been repurposed to flower beds, there are wind turbines, solar panels and vertical gardens on the houses, some people are chilling in a cafe or reading on a bench

Utopia Still

Jonas Laugs

3D diorama
Glimpse into a positive vision of the future frozen in time, where cars, the climate crisis and capitalism are only a distant memory.
Colorful drawing of many people at a big event.

utopian congress

foxitalic

illustration
Vision of a techno-utopian solarpunk community.