SIRIUS.EXE 2.0 is the latest iteration of Technologie und das Unheimliche’s inquiry into digital culture, myth-making, and the aesthetics of belief, extending its speculative framework where cultic imaginaries, eschatological narratives, and computational infrastructures intertwine.
At its core is the imagined mythology of a group claiming extraterrestrial origin in the Sirius system and envisioning digital technologies as mediators of their long-awaited ascension. The eponymous SIRIUS.EXE serves simultaneously as scripture, portal, and executable file: a textual system encoding pathways of departure from the “Human Evolutionary Level” toward the “Kingdom of Sirius.” This fiction operates not as parody but as a serious allegory for examining how software, networks, and algorithmic systems generate contemporary forms of transcendental desire.
SIRIUS.EXE 2.0 unfolds as an expanded installation functioning as both digital archive and ritual environment. Visitors encounter fragments of exegesis, sound, and algorithmic patterning that evoke initiation and transmission. By juxtaposing cultic rhetoric of cosmic departure with computational infrastructures, the work reveals how narratives of salvation, exodus, and “graduation” from Earth persist in techno-cultural imaginaries.
Positioned between science fiction, conspiracy culture, and spiritual doctrine, the installation probes metaphysical aspiration within digital modernity. It foregrounds the paradox of technology as both a promise of liberation and an apparatus of control, showing how executable belief systems mirror the logic of software. In doing so, Technologie und das Unheimliche reflects critically on the cultural imaginaries through which futures beyond the terrestrial are envisioned—and on the conditions under which such imaginaries take hold.
The project was first developed for the 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic ISKRA DELTA in International Centre of Graphic Arts – MGLC, Ljubljana.
✹ Main exhibition @ Esoteric Ecotechnics. Irrational Computation and Conspiratorial Networking
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Technologie und das Unheimliche (T+U) is a Berlin–Budapest art collective founded by Mark Fridvalszki, Márió Z. Nemes, and Zsolt Miklósvölgyi. Their practice explores the intersections of technology, occult knowledge, and speculative cultures through exhibitions, publications, and discursive projects. T+U mediates between artistic research, post-digital print, and para-academic discourse, with interests spanning acid ufology, Eastern European paranormality, eerie technologies, and pre- and posthuman lifeforms.
