CHARLOTTE THORN

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Charlotte Thorn is a media artist and filmmaker based in Innsbruck. Deriving from architecture, she dissolves the boundaries between physical and digital space—creating immersive, ephemeral environments through film, generative imagery, and interactive technology. At the heart of her practice lies a fascination with human–machine interaction and its impact on the spaces we shape and inhabit. Her installations often anchor themselves in geographical realities, yet unfold into speculative, posthuman futures. By weaving responsive soundscapes, visual transformations, and participatory systems, Thorn crafts hybrid realities that shimmer with both beauty and unease. Her works are spaces to feel through: poetic, political, and provocatively alive. They invite audiences to step in, question the futures we are already living in.

Brine Water Shrimp (2025) —Environmental fiction exploring speculative ecologies in a post-human desert wetland.

Brine Water Shrimp is an immersive multimedia installation and live performance by Charlotte Thorn, unfolding in the speculative future landscapes of West Texas. Through layers of film, generative visuals, reactive sound, and human– machine feedback loops, the piece conjures a world where boundaries melt—between human and nonhuman, dream and data, memory and mutation, fact and fiction. A sensorial plunge into shifting ecologies and (un)desirable futures, Brine Water Shrimp doesn’t just ask to be watched—it demands to be felt. Liminal, alive, and unstable, it invites visitors to inhabit the fragile in-betweens of a world on the brink.