Nejc Trampuž
Solandium 2063 is an experimental 3D solarpunk strategy world-building computer game with integrated artificial intelligence, developed by multimedia artist Nejc Trampuž and his team. Set in the dystopian future of 2063, your mission is to strategise through dialogue with the AI to transform an abandoned robotic centre into an eco-community – will you succeed in creating a sustainable society?
This hybrid between artwork, computer game and interactive education tool is also a technological experiment, as the game elements have been generated using the latest AI tools. It follows the aesthetics and values of solarpunk, optimistically striving for a just and ecological society and the responsible use of technology. Solandium 2063 explores the role of AI in the transition towards sustainability, highlighting its potential in addressing environmental challenges and drawing attention to the downsides such as high energy consumption and biases.
At the heart of the project is the belief that every individual has the power and responsibility to contribute to a better future and invites people to actively co-shape the world.
PLAY THE GAME AT: www.solandium.com
Nejc Trampuž (1993) is a multi-award-winning intermedia artist who has presented his work in around 100 solo and group exhibitions, festivals and public events. He works at the intersection of intermedia and research art, technology and environmentalism, and is known for his audiovisual experiments in a typical saturated collage aesthetic. Through these, he addresses environmental issues using a variety of media, approaches and technologies such as artificial intelligence, animation, automation, interactivity, internet, film, video, sound, glitch, projection and light, etc.
Among Trampuž’s most prominent projects are Another Future Entirely (2022-2023), a research multimedia project he carried out under the production of the konS = Platform. Project premiered at the Simulaker Gallery (SI), and was subsequently presented at the the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana (SI), Cukrarna Gallery (SI), Velenje Gallery (SI), the 29th MFRU (SI) and other venues. In 2023, he was invited to collaborate with director Matej Filipčič on the visuals (set design) for the National Day celebration, which addressed the themes of environmentalism in Slovenia. His experimental animated short film Rooted in Code (2023) – one of Slovenia’s pioneering AI-generated films – won the main prize for Best Film at the Greek International Film Festival Balkans Beyond Borders (GR) and the Jury Prize at the Kurz Klub Festival (SI). The film tour, which started at the Osmo/za Gallery (SI), has so far included 19 international festivals and exhibitions, including FeKK (SI), Kino Otok (SI), Trieste Science+Fiction Festival (IT), Suncine (ES), Festival of Independent Film (SI), Pisa Robot Film Festival (IT), Kino Bled (SI), DigitalBigScreen/Speculum Artium (SI), Videomedeja (SRB), at the Kvaka 22 Gallery (SRB), etc. In 2024 he presented Solandium 2063, an experimental computer solarpunk game with integrated artificial intelligence, premiered at Miklova hiša Gallery and further exhibited in Kulturni Inkubator Gallery. Trampuž is also the co-author of the science-art work Astrotop_X (2024), which was produced under the European Capital of Culture GO! 2025 and premiered at the Xcenter in Nova Gorica (SI).
He studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he graduated summa cum laude in 2016 and received the Prize for Outstanding Master’s Thesis in 2019. He has received several other awards, including winning the Simulaker Call 2019 (SI), receiving an honorable mention at ON_Award 2018 in Bratislava (SK), and being a finalist at Primavera 2019 (SI). He was a member of the juries of the student sections of Animateka 2017 (SI) and Plaktivat TAM-TAM in the years 2021-2023.
Other galleries and organisations where he has exhibited: OFF_festival (SK), Museum of Contempory Art Ljubljana (SI), IZIS (SI), Cirkulacija2 (SI), Kibla (SI), Alkatraz (SI), MGLC – Švicarija (SI), GT22 (SI), Municipal Gallery Nova Gorica (SI), Foto Fest (SK), ZDSLU (SI), Kino Šiška (SI), MAO (SI), Street Gallery of Layerjeva hiša and TAM-TAM (SI), Photogether (CZ), KUD FP (SI), City Hall Ljubljana (SI), AQ Gallery (SI), Gallery of University of Ljubljana (SI), Sloart (SI), Artsy platform, etc.