03/05/2026
Rescheduled Date for Future_Forecast, LAN Party Edition on Saturday, March 28th from 5pm - 7pm at Boston Cyberarts Gallery!
Future_Forecast by Mark Ramos + Ziyang Wu | LAN Workshop by Mark Ramos
Modeled after LAN (Local Area Network) Gaming parties organized by multiplayer gamers, we invite participants to gather with us in-person and under one roof to collectively experience and play future_forecast installed on a local network (a network of computers linked together but separate from the wider internet). Participants log onto the game platform simultaneously to play through the online experience together and engage in an active practice of real-time collective world-building on the metaverse. While we play, we discuss some of the issues present within the work: the stack model of planetary-scale computation, technology and the developing world, relationships between natural and human systems put forth by the game’s data API’s, game engines and speculations on the metaverse. Along with activating the work, we want to create a purposeful way for people to come together in-person around technological platforms, share an online experience together IRL, as well as encourage an active dialogue around the role of technology in our lives. We encourage participants to share screenshots and other documentation of the online world (metaverse) being built together in real-time.
