Tetramatyka Festival 2019

ArchaeaBot was selected for Tetramatyka Festival 2019 in Lviv, Ukraine, where it appeared as part of a touring presentation connected to the WRO 2019 Media Art Biennale. Announced on 16 October 2019, the presentation brought works from CZYNNIK LUDZKI / HUMAN ASPECT to a new setting at the Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts, where the exhibition ran from 4 to 20 October 2019.

That touring context matters because it extended the reach of the WRO exhibition rather than simply repeating it. In Lviv, ArchaeaBot carried its speculative vision of post-climate, post-human survival into a festival devoted to audiovisual art, placing the work within a different public rhythm and curatorial frame. The installation’s combination of underwater robotics, artificial intelligence, and archaea research remained central, but the move also showed how the work could travel across institutions while keeping its conceptual charge.

For May, the Tetramatyka presentation reinforced one of the work’s broader strengths: ArchaeaBot can operate both within media art biennales and in wider exhibition ecologies concerned with technology, perception, and the environmental future. The project asks what kinds of life might endure after human-centred systems fail, and in Lviv that question gained another layer through the festival’s emphasis on audiovisual experimentation and cultural exchange.