Soft Territories

An exhibition on shifting terrains of space, environment, and data.
Artists: Ms Litto · Felix Lenz with Lily Zlotover · Julian Palacz

We’re happy to share our upcoming exhibition SOFT TERRITORIES: DATA, SPACE & FRAGILE GROUNDS, bringing together Ms Litto, Felix Lenz with Lily Zlotover, and Julian Palacz at NODE Media Lab in Vienna.

Soft Territories looks at how contemporary territories are continuously rewritten through data, and how those data systems remain entangled with fragile physical grounds. The exhibition approaches space not as a fixed container but as a mutable field: scanned, sensed, leaked into, and reassembled through technological mediation. Territories are “soft” not because they are immaterial, but because they are perpetually in flux, shaped by invisible signals, computational translations, and the shifting conditions of the environments they inhabit.

Ms Litto transforms abandoned and repurposed architectures into walkable data-spaces. Through LiDAR scanning and augmented reality, she reveals the built environment as something that can be re-encoded and re-territorialised, producing new spatial terrains out of memory, distortion, and digital residue.

Felix Lenz, in collaboration with Lily Zlotover, turns to the hidden electromagnetic strata of the city. Their video work Undercurrent (2023) traces leaked frequencies inside Vienna’s unfinished U2 tunnels, making audible the infrastructural signals that underwrite urban life and showing data as an atmospheric, spatial ecology.
Julian Palacz extends this logic into everyday life. Through algorithmic extraction and image analysis, works like Candids compress lived environments into delicate trace-fields, a cartography of movement and presence where data becomes a fragile surface of spatial memory.

Across these three practices, space becomes data, data becomes space, and both rest on brittle grounds: unstable architectures, invisible infrastructures, and the material limits of environments under pressure. We invite you to move through these overlapping terrains — from recomputed buildings, to resonant tunnels, to spectral traces, and to sense how territory today is always already a negotiation between the physical world and its data shadow.