FUTUREVISIONS was a CGI and computer graphics conference that ran from 1980 to 1993 in various locations throughout North America and Europe.

It was somewhat of a closed-door conference restricted to underground developers, and professionals in their field. The conference was made to let people showcase what they were working on, and what they had achieved in the field of computer graphics.

conference locations, for example one in Sweden were often small venues spanning about a day of talks, showcases and videos for upcoming technology.

During futurevisions 1991 conference near the end of the day a small CGI development startup had booked a 50 minute time slot for something called "showcase 22" (note it was probably not the 22nd showcase of the event)

most of what we know about showcase 22 comes from secondhand accounts of the showcase and some rumoured remarks about its presence at FUTUREVISIONS:

the showcase was created by a small European company called "BULTZ" (exact country unknown). BULTZ's showcase consisted of a set of tapes, given to organizers of futurevisions to play at the 4pm timeslot for their showcase.

secondhand accounts described a strange video being shown, with basically no information to explain any of it. it was broken up into sections, separated by black screens with white text written all in capital letters and in 3 languages. The demonstrations would follow each titlecard for example "DEMONSTRATION () BULTZ" the demonstrations were described as "weird" "dated" and "disturbing/unsettling". one account described it as "decades out of date" it was made stranger by the fact BULTZ provided no information about what was shown. Initially there was only a small group of 5 people watching the presentation, but a group of 30 converged to see what everyone was talking about.

After about 20 minutes the organizers turned off the tape following a "particularly disturbing" demonstration being played called "BULTZUS" the showcase was cut short from there.

later, the organizers looked over the tapes and found out BULTZ sent in 3 tapes meant to be played in a sequence. They later determined the organizers accidentally played Tape 2. All together the 3 tapes accounted for 90 minutes of demonstration, with the first tape only offering surface level explanation for any of it, in a sequence called "neural worlds". When they tried to reach out to BULTZ for an explanation, they got no response as the company seemed unreachable. likely due to "language barriers".

PROJECT ENGINE is trying to hunt down this footage as we believe some copies of the tapes are out in circulation, and we also believe a few industry professionals and staff may have digitized the footage as recently as 2008. The current status of the showcase 22 tapes are unknown. If you have any information or footage of showcase 22, please reach out to m0fr on discord.