HYPER HOUSE

*****2025/…, Carles Castaño

27 February – 30 March, 2025

*****202025/... is an interactive immersive installation/experience in mixed reality by the artist Carles Castaño that proposes to occupy the entire physical space of HYPER HOUSE, transforming and readapting it with the virtual environment.

The artwork proposes a complex and extensive narrative, just like the reality -physical and virtual- of the consumer society we inhabit. It addresses a myriad of current real issues and possibilities through metaphor, directly or indirectly, in the form of a 3D virtual universe: fictitious reality, extreme consumerism, consumers and not people, strict rules focused on a broad but disadvantaged sector of society, unbridled inequality, frustrating inequality, prevailing individualism, death of the collective, the fall of basic rights, impossible housing, housing as a method of investment profitability, housing in a desperate format, imposed speed, no rights, ultraCapitalism, exploitation, ultra-rich ultra-poor, destruction, destruction of everything around us, destruction of the living, destruction of the real, destruction of what was already here.

‘We are witnessing the apocalypse, everything is being destroyed, the walls of the premises are cracking and pulverising, the plants are burning and turning into viscous black chapapote, the buildings are turning into fireballs.... We travel inside a chaotic universe in VR format. Users are invited to leave’.

Carles Castaño (Girona 1992) is a 3D creator with studies and experience in multiplatform application programming, illustration and plastic and electromechanical arts. His aim is to use this experience and channel it through digital art. He previously co-directed the experimental art gallery, TKM Room (Barcelona). He has also exhibited his solo work at venues such as Mira Digital Arts Fest, Arts Santa Mònica, Festival Grec de Barcelona, IDEAL, Bombas Gens, Boiler Room TV, to name a few. He is currently the founder and director of SERVICIOS INMERSIVOS, which is an intermediate space between a production company, a laboratory and a centre for artistic synergies. His goal is to create and promote immersive and participatory pieces through XR technologies and the digital world, through a perfect symbiosis between art and technology. In SERVICIOS IMMERSIVOS they create artistic projects using technological resources and focusing them on the dissemination of immersive technologies in the cultural field. It is currently immersed in two collaborations with the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Barcelona City Council, which will be presented throughout the year 2025.

DATES

27 Feb – 30 Mar, 2025

 

OPENING

27 February, 19-22h

 

GUIDED TOURS

Coming soon

ARTISTS

Carles Castaño

Servicios Inmersivos

WITH THE SUPPORT OF

Ayuntamiento de Madrid