Future Juice stages a living threshold—an interface where meaning is not predefined but continuously shaped through exchange. Its particle swarm simulates not only motion but agency: behaving like semiotic organisms, the system reads and reacts, not in direct commands, but in gestures and perturbations.
Rooted in posthumanist thought, the work rejects a human-centered frame. Instead, it explores the triad of human, machine, and environment as co-dependent entities. The audience’s body becomes just one node in a larger system of signals, algorithms, and motion.
Inspired by Jakob von Uexküll’s notion of the Umwelt, each visitor enters with their own perceptual bubble. The installation responds to this intrusion with a logic alien but interpretable—a form of digital life operating within a shared semiosphere, where data and gesture, reaction and intention, blur into a new ecosystem of meaning.
Here, control is distributed. Influence is reciprocal. Participants imprint themselves into a system that resists clear ownership. The result is not just a visual effect—it is a reflection of our entanglement with systems we build but no longer fully command.
The visual system is built around an interactive fluid simulation and generative particle behavior. The particles are soft, luminous, organism-like—evoking underwater plankton, pollen clouds, swarms, or embryonic matter. They react with weight and fluidity, simulating the response of a living medium to an intruding body.
Interaction is non-verbal, intuitive, playful. Motion capture detects the presence and movement of visitors. Bodies interrupt the stream, generate turbulence, trigger glow and intensity. The system encourages exploration, spatial awareness, and shared play—without requiring instructions.
Audience Engagement
Visitors often slip into a state of flow—momentarily free from external concerns. Children and adults engage alike, touching nothing but feeling involved, curious, reflected. It’s a digital mirror that resists clarity—drawing out emotion through ambiguity and motion.
