Complexcity

Over the last few decades, technology has become a huge part of our everyday lives. It’s enhanced almost every aspect of our existence, from health to industry to social media. It’s the reason you can use your smartphone to play Minecraft while sat on the toilet. Not that I’ve ever done that, of course.

Unfortunately, technology is also at the root of the beautiful post-apocalypse that is Complexcity, an intricate build from the Aria Creations team.

“Our first intention was to create an even more complex city than we did with our previous builds,” Aria Creations founder LNeoX tells me via email. “Complexcity seems to be a nice and friendly place but, from the inside, the city is dead and controlled by artificial intelligence. Isolated from the rest of the world.”

The story of Complexcity is of humans producing robots to build things for us - but then probably regretting that decision when the robots rise up against us. It’s a story we’ve experienced in other sci-fi. I’ve seen about 5,988,434 movies where ungrateful machines start rising up against their poor human creators (as a human myself, I might be a little biased here).

Complexcity tells a similar cautionary tale, with the robots headed toward eliminating humans from the equation altogether. At the time we’re seeing Complexcity, robots are in complete control and nobody knows how the situation will develop.

Aria Creations were also unsure how this project would develop when they started building. “Normally we like to make our own concept before we start building but this one was without any planning beforehand,” explains LNeoX.