Curated by Alex Boca

Hybrid Stations is a collective installation of 3D printed sculptures depicting the relationship between the human and the technological. Through the Form Incubator online competition, creators and digital artists were invited to propose virtual sculptures that address the concepts of Hybrid Human and Artificial Thinking. The result consists of 25 selected and award-winning works that start from various interpretations, perspectives and artistic visions of the human condition, using various 3D creative media as sculptural techniques. By exploring the relationship between man and technology, the installation Hybrid Stations invites us to look at the transformative impact of applied science or multimedia industries on human corporeality and cognitive processes.

The Hybrid Human concept inspired figurative 3D models that explore the uncertain relationship between the body and synthetic environments, focusing on how humans augment their lives through various technological elements or processes. The selected sculptures represent the human body and critique the dependence of the organic dimension on the technical, blurring the boundaries between physical and digital, natural and artificial. Here, the resulting hybrid creatures express the complex interplay between human routine and technology-based progress.

Artificial Thinking, as the concept behind the abstract forms in the installation, explores the idea of patterns of thought in the context of human consciousness meeting artificial intelligence and virtual space. The sculptures that have been inspired by this concept are hypothetical forms through which we can give form to intuition or open a dialogue about cognition and synthetic thinking, critically examining the implications of existing in cyberspace and its impact on human thought and experience.