R.A.W

RAW draws inspiration from computing system commands. Request is the beginning: reaching outward, a desire to explore. Activate brings the hidden into light, turning thought into motion. Write gives shape to stories that are personal, digital, and true.

Borrowing from ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus’ “you cannot step into the same river twice,” RAW uses river as a metaphor for time, change, and recursion, reflecting technology’s constant transformation. Like a river in motion, shaped by ever-flowing data, tools, and emergence, RAW is both medium and message: always in flux, never fixed.

RAW is where everything begins to move, like the river we step into only once. The journey of RAW unfolds across the sequence Human, Environment, Machine, and back to ever-compiling Human, mapped directly onto the exhibition's three core movements:

Request corresponds to the Human: Dialogues with bodies and surroundings, questioning systems, and data flows. They reach outward from the self, asking questions, seeking resonance.

Activate aligns with the Environment and Machine: Lightening up spaces where boundaries blur between disciplines, geographies, and temporalities, building connections that transcend physical and historical constraints. These pieces bring abstract forces into tangible forms, activating interactions between culture, code, and context.

Write returns to the Human: constructing new narratives, forging digital intimacies, speculating on futures, and reflecting on the evolving relationship between humans and machines. 

RAW —where raw thought becomes form, data becomes feeling, and process is presence. Here, each collective emergence mirrors our moment in time and propels the act of becoming.