Plastic Prognosticate is a multi-phase curatorial project developed by Six Minutes Past Nine that explores how technological narratives shape cultural imagination and artistic practice.
The project brings together artists, writers and researchers to interrogate the aesthetics of prediction - the stories told about the future, the forces that construct them and the assumptions embedded within them. Rather than treating technological futures as inevitable, the project approaches them as cultural artefacts open to critique, speculation and reinterpretation.
Plastic Prognosticate unfolds across two connected phases: an exhibition presented within The Wrong Biennale and a publishing collaboration with CLOT Magazine.
Plastic Prognosticate × The Wrong Biennale
The first phase took the form of a pavilion presented as part of The Wrong Biennale, one of the largest digital art biennales dedicated to online and virtual exhibitions.
The exhibition brought together international artists working across video, interactive environments and speculative digital practices. Their works explored themes including:
Presented through a browser-based environment and virtual exhibition spaces, the pavilion functioned as a distributed digital exhibition.
Plastic Prognosticate × CLOT Magazine
The second phase expanded the project through a publishing collaboration with CLOT Magazine.
This phase commissioned a series of essays and critical texts that examine how futures are constructed, limited or authorised within contemporary cultural discourse. Contributors were invited to explore themes such as:
The resulting texts form a parallel critical layer to the exhibition, extending the project into theoretical and discursive space.
Across both phases, Plastic Prognosticate treats the future not as a fixed destination but as a contested cultural territory. By bringing together artistic production and critical writing, the project examines how speculative narratives emerge, circulate and shape the horizons of collective imagination.