Mathias Vef

My interest and emphasis is to explore how futures and speculative scenarios feel to people. That is why my practice focuses on atmosphere, tonality, subtle elements and the environment rather than on technical translations or functionality.

Conceptually I am interested in the gap between an alluring future, the promise of augmentation through technology or by economic structures – and its realities, which is merely amplification. It depicts human behaviour and reveals traits which I use as a basis for my speculation.

My work is mainly visual, my tools are graphics, CGI, photography and video. I work with collaged and processed static and moving images, often fragments, to create the atmospheric feel through hints and subliminal elements.

The Me-Loop is investigating the future possibilities of reality enhancement. It is imagining a more ubiquitous technology shaping and processing our perception more than any media or any device so far. When we are amplifying ourselves through our perception, we excess everything we like, but we spam away diversity, confrontation, any things, any people or any experience we don't like. It will enclose us in a bubble, alone in a self-referenced loop – a Me-Loop.

The Everlasting Race proposes a 24-hour, 365 days-a-year motorcycle race. The race is the determinant element of society and presents an exaggeration of present-day technologies and economic systems. The project is presented in the form of a trailer for a fictional documentary about the island.