10 sec. observations
from Silent Futures
Long stays
in Silent Futures
Music
UNFOLD
UNFOLD is ten pieces written for Silent Futures.
Until now that world has been recorded in images. UNFOLD is the first recording of what it sounds like.
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Essays
Layers of Consciousness
Perhaps consciousness is not anchored in just one location. It drifts gently between overlapping layers.
Journal
Echoes of Salt and Sunlight
Scent travels differently from light. It drifts. It stays. It returns to places the body has long left behind.
Journal
The First Pattern
The pattern didn't sit on the wall anymore — it was thinking through it.
Journal
Why I Build Worlds That Are Still
The future doesn't need to be dystopian. A quieter vision of what lies ahead.
Medium
What Do You Carry? On Silent Futures 02 — What the Future Kept
For a long time, I believed that the future would be defined by what we invent.
Medium
The Room That Doesn't Change: On Silent Futures 01 — A Habitat for Thought
On the quiet persistence of human space in the far future.
Medium
One future,
three distances
Statement
metronovon is a Japanese sci-fi media artist and worldbuilder based in Bangkok, building Silent Futures — a world of quiet, human-centered futures.
Rather than imagining technology itself, his work observes what humanity quietly carries through technological change. He is drawn not to the spectacle of what is new, but to what refuses to disappear: memory, ritual, care, and the small disorder of a life being lived. To him, these are not remnants of the past but the truest materials of the future.
Working across moving image, still image, and immersive installation, he builds worlds on a cosmic scale, then fills them with intimate human traces — so that vastness and closeness are felt in the same breath. Silence is central to his language. In the space left empty, the viewer is invited to feel their own presence within a larger horizon.
He believes an artist's task is not to predict the future, but to widen how we are able to imagine it. His practice explores how humanity imagines the future by listening carefully to the cultures that continue to shape the present.
The vision of metronovon is to share better images of the future with as many people as possible, subtly reshaping the very outline of what is to come.
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