Participating artists: Emanuel Gollob, Irradiation, Margarete Jahrmann/Stefan Glasauer, Merzmensch, Bob L. T. Sturm, Thomas Wagensommerer
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel"—William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984
In his 1984 novel “Neuromancer”, William Gibson describes an artificial intelligence called Wintermute that struggles to free itself from the digital world into the analog one. What 40 years ago seemed to be a product of a science fiction writer’s creative imagination has only now become a technology that actually acts self-determined, something that was previously reserved for the reproductive dream of abstract masculinity. Wintermute and Neuromancer is an exhibition about artificial intelligence, generative systems and cyberspace in art in search of structures of collaboration between AI and humans. We contrast these utopias with the dystopian aspect of AI applications, which are now used extensively for surveillance, data analysis and profiling, as well as for hybrid warfare.
Curated by alien productions.
