The work ROAD TO FUTURES PAST of servus.at community member Anna Kraher examines prediction as an instrument of power, operating on two levels: the myths, promises, and imaginaries of prediction, and the technological tools used to produce it. ROAD TO FUTURES PAST reveals how both imagined futures and constructed pasts obscure the present as the primary site where power is exercised. By exposing the temporal myths embedded in predictive technologies, the work highlights how informatics of domination operate, insisting on the present as a contested political space.
The work was finalised within the AMRO 2025 Research Lab program, and presented online in the ScreenSaverGallery, as a cooperation between servus.at and the ScreenSaverGallery. The ScreenSaverGallery is an open-source software project that transforms an inactive personal computing device into an artist-run online gallery showcasing new media, digital, networked, and computational media-based art, among others, through regularly curated exhibitions.
The work that Anna finalised examines prediction as an instrument of power, operating on these two levels: the myths, promises and imaginaries of prediction, and the technological tools for prediction. ROAD TO FUTURES PAST reveals how both imagined futures and constructed pasts obscure the present as the primary site where power is exercised. By exposing the temporal myths embedded in predictive technologies, the work reveals how informatics of domination operate and insists on the present as a contested political space.
On view in the exhibition "AMRO26: Becoming Unreadable" at SPLACE.
