Techno Romanticism V1

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A one-day gallery celebrating the relationship between Humans × Technology.At the same time, technology is often discussed through data centers, computing, energy, and model performance. Techno-Romanticism starts somewhere else: with the curiosity, obsession, and imagination that drive humans to build in the first place.We draw inspiration from the Romantic movement. The artists pushed back against a world governed only by reason and machines, placing emotion, nature, imagination, and human experience back at the center.Techno-Romanticism brings that spirit to the technology around us.For one day, all three floors of Sanctuary Parc will become a living exhibition of this relationship. Through more than 10 installations spanning art, music, food, gaming, finance, and robotics, we will explore how technology is changing how we create, remember, move, play, and connect.This is not a conference or product presentation. Come wander, engage, and encounter technology not just as a tool, but as culture: something shaped by human ambition, imagination, and wonder.A glimpse of what you can expect:1. Moving Cultures Around the City, with PaxiWhat happens when childlike nostalgia gets wheels? Paxi transforms a trunk into a traveling Pokémon card shop, carrying rare finds and the culture of collecting through Bengaluru. A pop-up built around cards, chance, and the strangers who meet through it.2. Murmurs of a Quantum Sensor, with Dirac LabsThe Earth has a magnetic memory, and Dirac Labs is learning to read it. With quantum sensors, it is changing the invisible magnetic fingerprint of the planet into a way to navigate without GPS. A machine that finds direction by listening to forces we cannot see.3. Enter the New Dimension with Dimensional OSYour body stays in Bengaluru. Your hands travel the world. Dimensional OS allows you to control robots in San Francisco and China, making distance something you can touch.4. Colour Offset with Panic PressOne colour goes down. Then the other lands a bit to the side. Panic Press turns this small shift into live screen prints, where each layer leaves a mark and each surprise becomes part of the art.5. Fantastic Beasts and Where We Found Them with DognosisDogs live in a world of scents, sounds, and signs that we miss. With DogSense, Dognosis makes their hidden senses visible to us. Our oldest friendship has just learned a new trick.6. The Return of Musical Instinct with RiffleBefore music had rules, it started as play. Riffle brings that feeling back with a music studio during the day and live sets at night. Make a sound, follow it, and see where it takes you.7. Unlocking the Archives of the Deep Sea with AltcarbonOur oceans contain more hidden stories than all the land above. Alt Carbon brings foraminifera: single-celled marine organisms whose shells hold 500 million years of ocean memory, from ice ages to ancient climates. Look through the microscope and meet life older than dinosaurs. Come discover the romance of deep time.8. The Builder's Bestiary with Ego MonkEvery era mints its own mythology. Ego Monk brings a new lens to mythology, and start-up currency for the stories founders tell themselves. Curated and carefully collected.9. Auditory Embodiment with Maya ResearchA holographic, voice-activated AI presence that transforms conversation into a spatial encounter.10. Misfits of the Web with SpacekayakThe web used to be a weird playground. Meet the quirky little websites that refused to function, made for fun, wonder, and no clear reason. The misfits are still online.11. Rip and Sip with FreshwatersChoose a drink. Tear open a Pokémon pack. Freshwaters brings collectors and curious strangers to one table, where each card can start a story, a trade, or a new friendship.12. Ice Cream and Trade with CookieEvery future still needs dessert. Cookie transforms the roof into a one-day ice cream and cookie shop, with flavours made for Techno-Romanticism. Ideas melt. Cookies crumble. Trade continues.13. Takeout and Takeover with Sando ClubLunch, but the kitchen already knows you. Tell the voice agent what you want, and it figures out what to make. Sando Club builds it from there: Bangalore's favorite sandos, assembled by an agent who takes your order and then hands it over.14. The Textures of Sound with LissnWhat does sound look like when you can walk in it? Step into a utopian jungle grown from audio. Lissn builds an immersive soundscape and narrative experience where the room listens to you and the story moves as you do.15. Attention is All You Have with OffworkWhat if culture had a stock market? Offwork turns fonts, launch videos, and internet trends into things you can trade. Watch how taste rises and falls on a live ticker. The price is your attention.16. Love and the Story of Gaming with Bangalore Card ShowA small screen once contained a very big world. Bangalore Card Show brings back the consoles, games, and collectibles that made Pokémon a shared language across generations. Press start and meet an old world again.17. The Design with SpacekayakOld designs, strange objects, and unfinished ideas come together to tell the story of Spacekayak. This is our work behind the work.18. Heritage and Future of Interaction with AlmaFirst came the buttons. Then screens learned to listen. Alma showcases the tools that brought people and computers closer together. It wonders how we might speak to machines next time.19. The Instant Advertising MachineFrom advertising men to advertising machines. Give a link and watch a whole month’s worth of a bureau happen in minutes, printed for you while the ink is still warm. The future of advertising is a live performance. Take the front row.Open call for installationsWe welcome proposals from artists, designers, technologists, researchers, and independent makers wishing to present an installation, object, or experiment at Techno Romanticism V1.For details and submissions, email [email protected] future may be stranger than we think. Perhaps its history is too.