Joey Holder
Joey Holder (b. 1986, London, UK) is an artist and researcher whose work raises philosophical questions of the universe and the yet unknown, across science, technology, and human-machineanimal interactions. She creates immersive, multimedia ‘worlds’ in collaboration with experts in fields including marine biology, genetic research, and behavioural psychology, exploring themes such as deep-sea ecosystems, speculative evolution, non-human time, and future ecosystems. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (2013); Design Museum, London (2018); the Sydney, Athens, Ljubljana, Wuhan, and Moscow Biennales (2022, 2018, 2021, 2025, 2018); and Transmediale, Berlin (2017). She also directs SPUR, an online platform supporting digital art, and Chaos Magic, an art project space in Nottingham. In 2021, she was named in Apollo magazine’s ‘40 Under 40’ for her cutting-edge contributions to the intersection of art and technology. Holder lives and works in London and Helsinki.
Joey Holder's The Wooosphere (2025) is part of the festival’s exhibition Model Collapse at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz as well as an online artwork.
The Noosphere, conceived in 1922 by Vladimir Vernadsky, envisioned a global, unified intellect. A century later, the Woosphere emerged: a fractured, chaotic digital world defined by misinformation, ideological warfare, and fragmented beliefs. Set in 2025 or a near-future dominated by the online world, the Woosphere spirals through glitchy, hyper-emotional content. Characters like LAM, a super-intelligent alien, Baudrillard’s Echo, Teilhard.exe, and others debate reality through fractured logic. All unfolds in Woo Woo Land, a synthetic non-place formed from viral trends and digital fragments. At its core pulses Quantum Woo, a vibe-based epistemology for the terminally online.
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