A pop-up global moving image and projection art festival

PROJECT / FORWARD

Where Artists Get To Plan The Future
Project / Forward is a radical reimagining of how we experience digital art in public spaces. As a free, globally-distributed moving image initiative by Micro Galleries, it transforms everyday surfaces – from ancient temple walls to modern sidewalks – into ephemeral canvases for future visions. In this moment of profound global transition, where we stand at the threshold between crisis and possibility, Project / Forward serves as a portal into imagined futures through digital and new media art.

Each installation presents a carefully curated 30-60 minute journey through multiple artistic visions that plan what the future could look like if they were allowed to design a part of it, featuring works that range from intimate 10-second glimpses to expansive 3-minute explorations. These selections showcase diverse global perspectives on our potential futures, appearing unexpectedly in under-served communities and spaces where digital art rarely ventures. Whether you're an intentional viewer or a serendipitous witness, these projections crack open the boundaries between present and future, between art and public space, between the digital and the physical.

This project was originally seeded and evolved by Kat Roma Greer, Brian Luque Marcos and Rhiannon Hopley.

3 global events

117 artists

22 Countries

500K eyeballs

I Would Like to Screen Project / Forward
Project / Forward: 2049 will be on
30-31 May, 2025
Where Artists Plan The Future
How Can I Be Involved?
This is a free public art movement for everyone.
  • Artists and Creatives Working In Moving Image
    If you have a moving image work that's 30 seconds - 3 mins long, envisions solutions-focused futures or imagineers blueprints on how a hopeful future could look, click below!
  • I Have a Projector and A Surface // Public Screening
    If you have a projector (any size) and a small speaker, or know how to get one, and you would love to screen this project in your community, sign up, receive a full info pack and team support to make this event happen in your neighbourhood. Free and accessible!
  • I Have an Organisation or Festival and Would Like to Do A Screening For My Community
    If this project aligns with your organisation or festivals vision, sign up and we will send you a full info pack and team support to make this happen at your event.
  • I Want To Screen at My Home // Private Screening
    If you have a projector or large screen at home, and would like to invite your neighbours and friends to experience this project, sign up, receive a full info pack and team support to make this event happen in your loungeroom! Free and accessible!
  • I Have No Time But I Have $$
    We would love to sponsor more artists and groups from under-resourced communities to be involved and host screenings. If you have money you would like to contribute and make this happen, let us know.
I Want To Submit a Work
Submit your work to be included. Deadline 15 April, 2025
I Want To Be A Screener!
Apply to be a Featured Screener. Deadline 15 May, 2025.
I Am An Organisation or Festival
I want to be an official screening partner
I Want To Screen at My House
I want to invite my family and friends to share this with them at home.
I Want To Help You Amplify This
The Theme of the Works
Artists are now in charge.

You've been called up into an exclusive think-tank of creative thinkers and charged with designing the world as it will be in the future.

Everyone knows artists can imagine better ideas, futures, solutions and possibilities where most can't envision them. Your job is to make these amazing possibilities and visions come to life.

How will people live? What will their values be? What will the environment look like? What do people do? What will be important? What would have worked?

You are writing the plan and creating the script, the images and the narrative for the future. Building on the past, on the data we have, on those who went before us to be brave enough to envision a different, better world – what will you create? This is not a moment to predict doom and post-apocalyptic ideas. It is a chance to build a better tomorrow, forging possibilities and alternatives, where no one believes there are any.
How it works
Artist Callout
Via a hybrid of intentional curatorial invitation and open callout, we invite moving image artists to submit 10 second - 3 minute video works responding to the theme.
Selection
We curate a diverse collection of moving image artworks that reflect the theme, response to public space,diversity of perspective and creative practice.

Callout for Screeners
We have a key featured site and callout for people around the world who would like to feature Project / Forward on the festival weekend.
Select the Sites
Our screeners find interesting, unique, underutilised and accessible public space to feature the work. It could be a temple, a bin, a warehouse, a balcony.
Community Events
Screeners are encouraged to build a localised version of events in their public space to coincide with the festival, inviting community members to engage with the art, participate in discussions, connect with one another, and see how they can activate ideas from the package
Shout About It
All registered public spaces for the festival are promoted and mapped, accessible to the public.
Make it Accessible
Over the Global Festival Weekend, a schedule of screenings is mapped and circulated locally and to the broader community. We also have live online viewings for people who would like to register to view at home.
Killer Package
Our stellar tech and creative team collate a stunning 30 - 60 min visual package that is sent around the world.
Project / Forward Weekend
On the same weekend all around the world, our hosts screen our Project / Forward video package for free for communities
Documentation and Promotion
There is a free, downloadable online catalogue available to everyone to access the works. MG creates a wrap reel to amplify the work and locations throughout the social-verse.

But Why?
Look, let's be real for a hot second: our digital world is moving at warp speed, but who's actually getting to enjoy the ride? While tech billionaires are dropping millions on NFTs, countless communities are still waiting for an invitation to the digital art party. With creative tech spending rocketing toward $3 trillion (yes, TRILLION), there's a glaring disconnect between who creates our digital future and who actually gets to see it.

That's where Project / Forward crashes the scene – beautifully disrupting this digital divide by transforming ordinary public spaces into extraordinary galleries of possibility. We're not talking about stuffy museum halls with whispered conversations and $20 entry fees. We're talking about artists projecting vibrant visions of sustainable futures directly onto the concrete walls of your community.

When artists transform a forgotten building facade into a canvas showing water-filtering urban forests or community-powered energy systems, something magical happens. Suddenly, that blank wall isn't just a wall – it's a portal to a possible tomorrow where your community has agency in shaping its own destiny.

Each projection creates a temporary wonderland where folks from all walks of life can gather, gawk, debate, and dream together. Artists from diverse backgrounds offer their visual blueprints for more hopeful futures – from solarpunk urban designs to indigenous-led environmental restoration – proving innovation doesn't only happen in Silicon Valley boardrooms or Chelsea galleries.

Without initiatives like this, let's face it: the future gets designed by the same privileged few who already control most of our resources. Project / Forward flips that script by ensuring that visionary artistic blueprints for more sustainable, equitable worlds reach communities who deserve to see themselves in tomorrow's narrative.

In this weird, wild space between our messy present and uncertain future, these projections light up the night with radical possibility. It's not just art – it's an invitation for everyone to join the conversation about where we're headed next.

Because the future shouldn't be a luxury product – it should be a public experience.
Our special sauce is that we are THE ONLY ONE! We are the only global, roaming, free, accessible projection art festival in the world. AND, we are future-focused artistic planning.
The Artists: 2049
Beaming at you from around the world
  • Altruit / USA
    Altruit is an A/V collaboration out of MN/USA. The goal of the project is to create unique live video art and music situations for individuals, entities, venues and organizations. Altruit is deeply driven to create positive experiences and improvisational environments that expand creativity and goodwill between themselves and the community and to share in and support the vivid experiences that shape the communities they serve.
  • Ariel Ruby + Remy Philipps / Australia
    Ariel Ruby (born 1993 Hobart) is a so called Australian/Italian artist with deep connections to the places she has called home, and those that she can imagine. She makes lively, moving worlds filled with glittering items and images that explode with narrative and rich emotional memory. Working across a range of mediums spanning analogue and digital, techniques are combined in installation contexts to create experiences for the viewer.
  • Benn Wyldeck / UK
    By day I'm a Television Editor and Animation director. By night I create digital 3d art.
  • Brian Luque Marcos / Spain / Austria
    BrianLM is not your average artist, but a spatial designer with a knack for innovative techniques. From 3D Printing to Laser Cutting and CNC drilling, his creations blend artistry with functionality, and use modern crafting to produce pieces that transcend mere aesthetics to become practical marvels ready for serial production. Brian's flair sits in crafting imaginative real-space experiences. and is the curator of our annual micro projection art festival: Project / Forward
  • Cosmodernism / Poland
    Cosmodernism is my personal intermedia art project that came to life in 2019 in Katowice, Poland. It incorporates both broadly defined abstract video art and photography, as well as original sound design and experimental and performative activities. The main idea of the project is to search for the personal abstract expression by exploring micro and macro observation in combination with specially composed soundscapes of my own production.
  • Dakarai Akil / USA
    A Los Angeles based collage artist and illustrator from Cleveland, OH. Primarily working in collage and design, he has self-published three art books that catalog works created between the span of 2014 to 2021. He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibits over the span of 10 years and has worked with brands and publications such as The New York Times, Postmates, Serato, Billboard Magazine, Primark and several more. Dakarai's collage compositions are small windows into the world of Afrosurrealism.
  • Emma Varker / Australia
    Emma Varker is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, video and digital media. Their live practice has been largely informed by training with La Pocha Nostra [Italy, 2020], ANDRIGO & ALIPRANDI [Italy, 2020] and Vest&Page's Venice International Performance Art Week [Italy, 2020]. They are currently investigating avenues in 3d modeling, motion capture, AR and AI.
  • Eduard Krasilnikov / Russia // Serbia
    Ed is a versatile creative coder and new media artist with expertise in interactive installations and audio-reactive visual effects for performances. With a background in Computer Science and a deep passion for drawing, Ed found his calling in creative coding, blending technical proficiency with artistic expression. Now a freelance creative coder and educator, Ed enjoys the opportunity to create immersive visual experiences and share his knowledge with aspiring creators.
  • Francesco Misceo / Italy

    Francesco Misceo is an experimental contemporary dancer and multimedia artist. He acts in the field of the digital arts and performing arts by creating many forms of art, from stage performances to exhibitions combining real and virtual worlds. He placeses the human body at the heart of technological and artistic challenges and adapts today's technological tools to create timeless poetry through a visual language based on playing and enjoyment, which breeds imagination. His work is acknowledged for the highly holistic artistic methodology with strong digital backgrounds, which considers not only physical elements as dance, but also optical, sonal, sensorial and, above all, spatiotemporal components as part of the choreography.


  • Gerard Mates / Spain // Mexico
    I'm a film director born and raised in Barcelona. Currently living in Mexico City. Specializing in commercials. Now in pre-production of my first feature film.
  • Hadi Moussally / Lebanon // France
    Hadi Moussally is a filmmaker, photographer & performer. In 2020, he founded "Hybrid Wave" with more than 30 hybrid artists from all around the world. He also considers himself an artivist working to dismantle injustice through films, photos & performances with particular focus on homophobia, racism, sexism, and transphobia.
  • Ika Vantiani & Feransis (Indonesia)
    I'm Feransis and Ika Vantiani, from Jakarta, Indonesia. We are both artists who use collage as our main technique. Feransis uses comic and cartoon characters for his works while Ika mostly uses vintage visuals in her works. We both explore collage through animation, murals, workshops, and other formats.
  • Ilham Gusti Syahadat / Indonesia
    I am an architectural designer based in Bali, Indonesia. My works in the field of fine arts explore many aspects, techniques and contexts of architectural design as a medium for creating fine art.
  • Infratonal / France
    Multidisciplinary artist wondering how what makes us human can dialogue with the algorithm to create a visual and musical hybrid artwork
  • Jess Harwood / Australia
    Initially training as a lawyer, I've worked with farmers impacted by coal and gas developments at NSW Farmers Association, on shark conservation at Humane Society International, and most recently on climate change communications in the Australian coal mining team at the Sunrise Project. I aim to blend my legal and communications skills with my art practice to create timely, thought-provoking and informative works commenting on climate change, politics and life.

  • Ju Schnee / Austria
    Primarily delving into oil paintings, Ju Schnee seamlessly integrates the realm of Augmented Reality (AR) into her artistry. Her oeuvre serves as an experimental canvas, exploring the synergies between traditional mediums and cutting-edge technologies. Her fascination with AR, artificial intelligence (AI), and other emergent technologies drives her to push the boundaries of artistic expression.
  • Julian Hespenheide / Germany
    Julian Hespenheide is a Berlin-based Designer working in the fields of creating experiences, flexible visual systems, generative art and new media art installations with the help of creative coding and creative technologies. In his explorations he is mostly going after very typical or mostly cliché "computer" things, such a displays, ways of communication, RAM / Memory, bits and bytes and textmode. HHis work emphasizes on converging the digital with design, art, science and technology to create novel concepts and a better understanding of the future.
  • Laura Piñeiro Atienza / Argentina // Austria
    Vienna-based photographer and multidisciplinary designer with a focus on architecture, interior design, AI design and illustration. Lover of all things design and on a creative pursuit, exploring different ways of self-expression like spatial design, styling, photography, furniture design and architectural visualization. Originally from Patagonia, Argentina, and based in Vienna since 2017.
  • Liam Young / Australia
    Liam Young is a designer, director and BAFTA nominated producer who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. Described by the BBC as 'the man designing our futures', his visionary films and speculative worlds are both extraordinary images of tomorrow and urgent examinations of the environmental questions facing us today. As a worldbuilder he visualizes the cities, spaces and props of our imaginary futures for the film and television industry and with his own films he has premiered with platforms ranging from Channel 4, Apple+, SxSW, Tribeca, the New York Metropolitan Museum, The Royal Academy, Venice Biennale, the BBC and the Guardian.
  • Luigerman / Colombia
    Luigerman is a creator, artist and photographer from Cucuta. He has taken his work to different cultures, participating in artistic projects that allow communities to express themselves and be architects of changes in their spaces, environments and dynamics. He works with JR on the initiative: the Inside Out project.
  • Nadine Kolodziey
    Nadine Kolodziey is a XR artist who works at the intersection of digital and analog with the goal of creating visual experiences. She combines materials such as plastic and pixels to create work that is hand-cut, melted, or transformed into walkable augmented reality environments. . Kolodziey worked for clients like Apple, Uber, Google, Youtube, Page and die Zeit, she is a teacher for contemporary illustration at HfG Offenbach am Main since 2018, alumna of the Studienstiftung, member of the Berlin Artists Network Saloon, Media Art Association Berlin and Virtual Reality Association. She became a creative resident for Adobe and an artist for the Behind the Mac campaign from Apple.
  • Nathan Hackett / UK
    I'm an illustrator baed in Manchester, the unsunny north of England. My work is often laborious but I like to exhaust ideas in in grand compositions that reward the viewer for their longer reading and reflection. My practice is playful and I utilise subversion and humour as a technique to soften criticism with the subjects I am trying to empathise with.
  • Rhiannon Hopley / Australia
    Rhiannon Hopley is a multidisciplinary artist based in Sydney, Australia. Through photography, moving image and installation, her explores the abstraction and stillness of time and place, considering our connection with placemaking, identity and the relationship between nature, the urban landscape, and the human condition.
  • Setthasiri Chanjaradpong / Thailand
    Setthasiri Chanjaradpong is a documentary and multimedia artist based in Chiang Mai. From film festivals to temple fairs, his art connects cultures and creates dialogue.
  • Sonia JM / France // Thailand
    I love recycling/upcycling objects and give them another, colourful life through art. More recently I have started experimenting with Stop Motion animation to find solutions to the myriad of little problems. I am now starting to explore ways to feature global or social issues in short clips. The idea is to use some of these clips as a discussion starter with either children or adults... but also to simply bring a smile on viewers' face.
  • Sutu / Australia
    Sutu (aka Stuart Campbell) uses art and technology in new ways to tell stories. He has been commissioned by the likes of Marvel, Google and Disney to create VR art for properties such as Doctor Strange and Ready Player One. He has also created Virtual concerts and key art for Jean-Michel Jarre, The Weeknd and John Legend. His personal work explores the future of digital culture, identity and perception of reality.
  • Tamara Lee Bailey / Australia
    Tamara is a multidisciplinary Australian-Filipino artist. Tamara performed as a swing on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child from 2022-2023, and made her television debut on ABC kids show 'Mikki Vs The World,' showcasing colourful characters like the Divorce Fairy, Helen Hawk, Octavia and Mumsy for Season 2. Tamara's stage career kicked off at Theatreworks, where she played Ash in Kim Ho's production, 'The Great Australian Play'.
  • Tameem Sankari / Syria / Denmark
    Artist and designer pushing the boundaries of traditional art forms and exploring new avenues of creative expression using code.
  • Tolmie MacRae / Australia
    Tolmie MacRae's art practice explores the multiplicity of existence predominantly through the medium of video. His work has explored themes of meditation, transcendence and immanence by investigating the flow of light and time on people and landscapes generating visual and temporal abstractions. Rather than transcendence and immanence or creation and destruction as binary opposites the artist explores the tension of these seemingly competing states of existence as combined dualities. It is not a political or spiritual investigation for the artist but rather an individual exploration of the state of existence.
  • Targz / France
    Pen Plotter artist exploring the fusion of art and technology.
  • Toma Gerzha / The Netherlands
    Toma Gerzha (b. 2003) is an Amsterdam based mixed media artist specializing in coming-of-age photography. Gerzha first gained public notice on the Internet with her project ".ru" (2023), which included photographic work created using artificial intelligence. Toma has become widely known for her animation-based reels. Currently she studies Art History at the University of Amsterdam. Her works are in collection of Cultural Association MoCA, University of the Arts London, Saint Petersburg State University (Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences), Farm Cultural Park.
  • TUTU / Indonesia
    Tutu's work explores important values that are hopefully owned and maintained as personal or collective values: have a courage to dream, decide and take steps towards our dreams; have patience in the process, open-minded and sincere in meeting other people; be careful in deciding and taking sides, because there are many things that we don't know behind everything that we see. In carrying out our role in this life, we must not lose our identity. Hopefully, whatever the circumstances, we can have, maintain and share personal values to make our surroundings better.
Creative Leadership Team
  • Kat Roma Greer
    Artistic Director, Micro Galleries
    Creative Producer, Project / Forward

    Kat is a curator of public art interventions and community engagements; guerrilla creative business consultant for women.

    Australia, working in Hong Kong and Chiang Mai.
    LinkedIn // Urban Nasty
  • Brian Luque-Marcos
    Artistic Director, Project / Forward

    Brian, based in Graz, is a spatial designer with special interest in modern production techniques. His works tend to use techniques such as 3D Printing, Laser Cutting and CNC drilling to create materialised pieces that can be described as art, but also functional parts and useful objects for serial production.


    Spain, working in Vienna.

  • Tri Haryoko Adi
    Creative Producer, Project / Forward

    Tri,,known by his artistic alia sUncle Joy, began his career as a street artist, creating vibrant graffiti and urban art.He
    later transitioned into drawing, doodling, painting abstract art, mural and creating
    paper-mâché sculptures. While his early work centered on street art, his evolving style now encompasses a range of techniques and mediums, reflecting his diverse creative interests and explorations.

    Indonesia
    LinkedIn // Instagram
  • Miguel Jeronimo
    Creative Producer, Project / Forward

    Miguel is a freelance photographer, curator, writer and artist based in Phnom Penh, with more than 70 exhibitions in Cambodia — including solo and group shows on topics such as environment, social inequality, gender, disability and human rights. With a background in robotics and emotions in artificial intelligence, he’s passionate about photography and working with NGOs on projects with impact.


    Portugal, working in Cambodia.


    Instagram

Locations
We've had three iterations of the program in 22 locations.
Project / Forward: 2047
11-13 December, 2020

The flagship event included 45 artworks screened across eleven featured locations:
Amman, Jordan; Sydney, Australia; Central Java, Indonesia; Patan, Nepal; Padua, Italy; Graz, Austria; Bogota, Colombia; Texas, USA; Nairoibu, Kenya; Chachapayos, Peru; Barcelona, Spain.

This project was supported by The Ministry of Culture, Peru, and Jason Stephenson.
Wrap Reel
Take Me To 2047 Catalogue
Project / Forward: 2047 - Inner West Fest
11-13 December, 2022

This project had a second iteration in 2022 as part of the Inner West Fest in Sydney, supported by the Inner West Council which also included four new local, commissioned works.
Wrap Reel
Take Me To 2047 // IWF Catalogue
Callout
Project / Forward: 2048
17-18 December, 2021

The event included 40 artworks from 25 countries screened across ten featured locations: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Colombia, Italy, Finland, Australia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Cambodia.


Take Me To 2048 Catalogue
Project / Forward: 2049
17 February, 2024 + 30-31 May, 2025

Launched on 17 February, 2024 in Chiang Mai across seven locations as part of The Good Lab initiative. This iteration features 32 artists, with 40 artworks from 25 countries.
The Good Lab
2049 Launch Screening Locations

For one night only, in various locations across the city, Project / Forward: 2049 was launched in Chiang Mai at these ultra-amazing unexpected venues:

Thapae East // Wall
Pa Rang Art Stay // Wall
Wat Chompu // Wall
SOME SPACE Night Gallery // In -gallery
Jack Yimyaen // Mobile food cart - projection from roof of cart at locations
Newburma Food and Music Festival, Rx Cafe Chiang Mai
Do You Ever Social Club // Large Screen

Project / Forward: 2049 launch in Chiang Mai is a collaboration and co-production with tomorrow.lab and SOME SPACE Gallery.

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