Status: completed
Perpetual Beta transformed The Grey Space in the Middle in Den Haag into a living laboratory, a space where making, testing, and sharing merged into one continuous act. Our founder and producer, Siuli Ko worked alongside three maker collectives – Studio Moniker, RNDR, and the duo of Carolien Teunisse and Sabrina Verhage – to explore what an open-source exhibition could look like.
This was not a static display, but an evolving presentation-in-progress. Visitors were invited to enter, observe, and contribute directly to the works as they unfolded. Moniker developed Identity Training Facility, a film-in-the-making where characters communicate through a digitally enhanced, language-filtering hand fan, shaped through model-making, silicon casting, and dialogue writing with peers and experts. RNDR experimented with the idea of an AI designer, creating a series of bots trained to perform design tasks, each week pushing the boundaries of what these tools could do. Teunisse and Verhage’s (Un)natural Augmentations grew from local lichens, sensitive to air quality, into a virtual moss that visitors could expand by collecting samples, an interspecies collaboration between human, plant, and code.
The physical space was designed by Collective Works, while the online counterpart – built in Constant Dullaart’s Common.Garden and broadcast by Outline Platform – became a parallel meeting ground. Here, every stage of Perpetual Beta was documented, shared, and expanded, creating an archive as alive and mutable as the works themselves.
Credits:
– Artists: Studio Moniker, RNDR, and Carolien Teunisse & Sabrina Verhage
With the kind support of: Creative Industries Fund NL and the City of The Hague
