Futurefarmers is an international working group founded in San Francisco in 1995 and working in Gent, Belgium since 2003. They are artists, architects, computer programmers, farmers, writers and anthropologists who form collaborative constellations based on the context in which they work. Based in enmeshed acts of wandering and material processes, Futurefarmers cultivate public life in place. Rather than inserting pre-determined forms and concepts into public space, they do so through a process-led approach and inviting materials and communities to arrive and intersect at a specific site or situation. Through time and the practiced presence of Futurefarmers, the meeting place of people and materials transform from provisional arrangements into durable forms and functions of their works.

For their residency at Rupert, Futurefarmers collaborative constellation Amy Franceschini and Marthe Van Dessel (ooooo.be) researched the history of puppetry, telecommunications and notions of power and control that orbit this space.

Amy and Marthe (ooooo.be) have collaborated since 2004. They find themselves entangled in overlapping interests in the commons, hi/low tech horizons and a critical view on consequences of the tools we make. They have been the lead artists of Flatbread Society, a 10-year-long public art project in Oslo, artist/researchers in residence at the University of California in Santa Cruz and lead artists crew on the sea-faring Seed Journey (2016+).