Ars Electronica Garden Lviv

Future from the past: imaginations on the margins

Future from the past brings to our attention little known stories about the late Soviet media amateurs and peripheral infrastructure for space research. Today, socialism may seem to be part of the past and huge infrastructural objects (like astronomical observatories), which were built during the rivalry between socialist and capitalist visions of the future, also became monuments of the past. These objects/monuments show the human desire to reach and conquer outer space, juxtaposed with an inability to maintain the earthly present.