Realities in Transition 2 – Unwritten Worlds invites artists and creatives to join a residency programme exploring XR as a space for imagination, connection, and transformation. We seek hybrid practices, unconventional perspectives, and collaborative approaches that challenge the present and shape worlds yet to be written. The residency unfolds as a collective process of research, experimentation, and co-creation.

In the age of agentic AI, Extended Reality shifts from a space of immersion into a system of extraction. What was once seen as a means of accessing virtual experiences now continually captures our interactions as training data. While it feels like you’re interacting with a system and shaping your experience, the reciprocal loop unfolds: the system learns from everything you do. Over time, it uses your input to guide your choices, so you gradually start behaving as the system expects. XR becomes an operative environment in which perception and production collapse into a single feedback loop—an ecology of isolated co-creation. Drawing inspiration from Greg Egan’s Permutation City, the project explores how human behaviour—gestures, choices, and “common sense” actions—can serve as data to train autonomous AI agents, generating dynamic, shifting simulated worlds in real time.

The hybrid production residency is designed as a communal creation process for a single joint artwork, with all residents contributing according to their individual expertise and vision. In a collaborative work environment, the residency aims to provide a nurturing space for a community of XR creatives who want to critically investigate the interplay between simulation and reality.

Place & Time of the Residency