Since the end of 2022, the rapid rise of generative AI systems has increasingly shaped artistic, social, and political debates. Enormous investments in data centers and new infrastructures have emerged, while questions of energy consumption, regulation, digital ethics, and democratic oversight have come to the forefront.
Examples such as the virtual AI minister “Diella” in Albania or the admission of the non-binary AI “Flynn” as a student at the University of Applied Arts Vienna demonstrate how deeply AI is already embedded in social, institutional, and symbolic orders. Key concepts such as deep fakes, neural networks, or AI agents are omnipresent but often remain opaque and difficult to grasp.
The exhibition approaches these developments from an artistic perspective. In a critical, post-autonomous approach, art serves as a framework, a reflective surface, a playground, and an early warning system. The exhibition asks whether discussions about AI can extend beyond questions of artistic autonomy and whether societal transformation processes must be negotiated collectively.
Central themes include humans and machines, bodies and data, the public sphere and authorship, history and entanglements, and the ambivalence between fascination, ideology, and power. AI appears not only as a tool but as a cultural infrastructure: it reproduces norms and biases, shapes narratives and visions of the future, sets aesthetic standards, and exerts political and material influence.
A dedicated section of the exhibition is devoted to questions of digital ethics. Lectures, presentations, and discussions accompany and deepen the artistic positions.
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Curator: Andreas Schlichtner
Poster: courtesy of Ana Vollwesen, Andreas Schlichtner & Die Aschenbrecher
Organisation: Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw
📅 26.02.2026 (Thu.)
📍 Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw — Ul. Próżna 7/9, 00-107 Warsaw
🎟️ Free entry! Language: English
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