What happens when digital worlds become a way of thinking about the natural one? Artists Joaquina Salgado and Kolbeinn Hugi come together to discuss their work, focusing on their new digital commissions for VDC 2026—and to explore how games, simulations and virtual environments can offer new ways of understanding ecology, memory and our entanglement with non-human life.


Joaquina Salgado‘s One More Sim is an interactive work that uses water and layered virtual environments to explore how memories and simulations shape the way we experience the world.

Kolbeinn Hugi’s SPLORB: Eco-Tech Management is an absurdist game in which players help a fictional activist navigate a bureaucratic multispecies internet, building connections between ecosystems in a race against ecological collapse.

Adresse
FOTO ARSENAL WIEN
Arsenal Objekt 19A
1030 Vienna

No participant limit, free admission.