The Unreal is a meditative and guided journey to the core of an artificial mine. Through the recreation of a utopian land, we present an immersive experience. 

The Unreal is a conceptual appropriation of techno-romantic and colonial ideals. The route, marked by a speculative derive along a path of spiritual transcendence, takes the therapeutic and meditative narrative concerning the ‘oceanic’ and ‘pacific’ feeling of freedom associated with the techno-liberal dream. The viewer is promised a path towards individual freedom conquering the infinite. A smooth female voice-over leads a contradictory narrative to exalt the failure of techno-capitalism alternatives and the colonisation of all imagined spaces.

This journey is an invitation to explore the contradictions between techno-liberal rhetoric and the disregarded geological materiality of media. The dematerialisation and deterritorialization of the digital have been defined by natural metaphors that mirror rhetoric of digital emancipation and cultural hegemony of Silicon Valley. Under the slogans of ‘innovation’ and ‘progress’, we have voluntarily forgotten and rejected the physical, material and residual condition of technology.
In light of the eco-catastrophe that is forging a need for new vocabularies and imaginaries to refer to the materiality of technology, The Unreal offers a reflective scenario set to the Post-Anthropocene era.