AMSTERDAM.- From this Wednesday 27th, Amsterdam’s Nxt Museum will host British-based art collective Random International: Life in a Different Resolution - a retrospective looking back on two decades of their remarkable creations. Including the first-ever European presentation of Random International’s monumental Living Room in addition to other newly completed works, this will be Nxt Museum’s first ever solo exhibition and is curated by Bogomir Doringer.

A public programme will feature performances by renowned dancer and choreographer Sedrig Verwoert and commissioned musical compositions created by Mamiko Motto as a means to explore the projects through the interactive mental and physical experiences that each work provokes.

The title Life in A Different Resolution stems from a series of informal dinners hosted by Random International in 2011. With guests coming from a range of fields from navigation, animation to psychology, the aim was to cultivate knowledge-sharing via a series of existential questions, spanning the nature of behaviour to the future of humanity. This project gave rise to a new methodology for the studio as a whole, with each meeting shaping the conceptual course of future works.

Each artwork in Random International: Life in a Different Resolution is a living study, translating complex ideas into immersive experiences and encouraging deep thinking on human consciousness. Nxt Museum will open up the craftsmanship and intellectual and contextual backgrounds to these seminal works, allowing a deeper understanding of Random International’s vision and endeavour.

In addition to sculptures and studies from across their oeuvre - and marking the first time that Nxt Museum highlights an artists’ entire career within an exhibition - highlights from Life in a Different Resolution include the famous Living Room, first shown during Art Basel Miami last year in the studio’s inaugural collaboration with Aorist, Life in Our Minds: Motherflock, a virtual flock of paper-like ‘bird-oid objects as an exploration of digital collectibles and Blockchain technology and Fifteen Points, a walking figure using rail-mounted robotic arms, each of which holds a point of light, among many others.

Throughout the exhibition the lines between human and artificial intelligence are deliberately blurred, whilst the merging of physical and digital realms reflect various contemporary anxieties. The exhibition asks: what makes us recognise something as sentient – capable of feeling or perceiving – regardless of whether it is? And why do we find human-like consciousness where rational thinking reveals its very absence?

The Public Programme, developed to run in line with the exhibition, will focus on giving a platform to trailblazing talents: Mamiko Motto – currently in residence at Wiels in Brussels – is a composer, sound artist and music director from Lithuania achieving worldwide recognition. She has been commissioned to produce the sound for different spaces and rooms for this exhibition.

For the opening evening, there will be two performances choreographed by Sedrig Verwoert, a prominent dancer and guest choreographer of the Dutch National Ballet. The evening will be accompanied by a DJ set by Mamiko Motto.