In Drifting Landscapes, curator Diane Drubay explores how (our ideas of) landscapes have changed in a time of ecological fragility and rapid technological growth. Using video, digital media, AI, and 3D simulations, the exhibition brings together artists who see the landscape not as a peaceful backdrop but as a place of disruption – an active, contested territory where technology and human impact collide.

Participating artists: Alfacenttauri, Alexandra Crouwers, Aura, Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes, Ceren Su Çelik, Claudia Brăileanu, Daniel Zantor, Eric Souther, Heliodoro Santos, Kelly Richardson, Kika Nicolela, Memo Akten, Patrick Tresset, Tais Koshino, Peter Wu+, and Solimán López

Drifting Landscapes explores post-natural futures, or how the notion of landscape is reinterpreted in a time of ecological fragility and techno-accelerationism. In contemporary digital art, the landscape is an active, contested territory rather than a passive setting for human narratives or a mirror of the artist's inner world, as it was in the Romantic era. Through the use of digital tools and speculative technologies, artists in this exhibition deconstruct and reimagine landscapes to offer a backdrop figure challenging the Anthropocene and the Technoscene.

Through video, digital media, artificial intelligence, 3D simulation, and immersive environments, the exhibition brings together artists interacting with the landscape as a place of disruption, much like the Land Art interventions of the 1960s and 1970s. Some use generative algorithms to deconstruct natural forms, exposing the techno-colonization of nature (Memo Akten) and the ominous techno-surveillance ingrained in our daily lives (Heliodoro Santos & Daniel Zantor, Patrick Tresset). Others reconstruct speculative terrains, amplifying the effects of climate change (Claudia Brăileanu, Peter Wu+, Alexandra Crouwers) or the extraction economies that shape our planetary futures (Ceren Su Çelik, Eric Souther, Alfacenttauri).

The landscape that emerges from these diverse practices is no longer neutral; technology has overcoded, monitored, and colonized it (Kelly Richardson, Solimán López). However, there are also acts of resistance – hybrid ecologies, imagined ecosystems, and digital rituals – that aim to recover a space for collective futures and non-human agency (Tais Koshino, Aura, Kika Nicolela, Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes).

Drifting Landscapes invites us to think about how digital art repositions the landscape as a complex zone where the effects of human activity and technological potentials collide. In this drifting space, we are prompted to explore complex terrains between nature and simulation, loss and possibility, and presence and absence, leaving us to wonder how these post-natural landscapes will exist in the future.

About the Curator

Diane Drubay is an art curator and artist researching how digital art can trigger eco-awareness and real-life climate action. With a background in cultural and museum studies, Diane has spent over 15 years infusing the art world with routes towards positive futures. Her exhibitions strive to inspire a sense of awe, urgency, and responsibility towards our planet, using the power of digital art to envision a more sustainable future. She has curated exhibitions and led projects internationally and often gives presentations at conferences and workshops about a future shaped by art, innovation, and ecology.

Notable curatorial projects include Echoes of Life at the Institute of Fine Arts (Colombia, 2024), Down the Silicon Meadow at OFFICE IMPART (Germany, 2025), SonarMàtica at Sonar+D (Spain, 2022), and the Art Implosion series at Factory Berlin (Germany, 2020). In 2022, Diane was invited as a guest curator at Octobre Numérique in Arles, France. She also shared her vision at key conferences, including Art Basel, NFT Paris, Gallery Climate Coalition, Grand Palais Augmenté, and ARKO Art Center. For more research and insights, be sure to check out SHIFTED, her Substack publication.