currently fellow at: onassis air/onx, athens soon on show: model collapse @ noorderlicht biennale july - aug 2025 soon on show: model collapse @ ars electronica sep 2025 now on show: archive.dweller at centraal museum > dec 2026
model collapse
solo exhibition, 2024 - 2025 @ tetem enschede
Is an immersive exhibition that depicts the landscape from which (generative) AI emerges..
revealing its self-consuming origins in extraction of the earth’s resources and data through relics, artifacts and stories from the past...
type in a query at the main station, where you are hosted by a local language model that determines your location within the generative digital environment. your query dynamically breathes life into this generative digital biome and sets the scene of the exhibition….
the exhibition is inhabited by cyber sculptures with distinct forms, voices and logics... as dynamic narrators sensitive to changes in light and other environmental cues, the sculpture (/deity-like entity) that resonates most with your query – awakens and shares its knowledge through the central interface. together they resist dominant computational ideologies entangled in ai’s origin narratives, telling stories of mystification, gender bias, non-western epistemologies, the ecological cost of computation, and labor ...
model.collapse was visible at tetem, enschede sept 26 2024 until feb 23 2025.
and will be visible again july 12 - aug 25 2025 @ noorderlicht biennale, and september 4 - 7 2025 at ars electronica.
exhibition in collaboration with: ymer marinus and tetem
updates version 2: collaboration between telemagic (+ roos groothuizen)
pictures by: tessa wiegerinck and ayseephotography
cyber sculptures: includor, extractor, mystificator, classifier supported by stimuleringsfonds creatieve industrie
cyber sculptures: patriarch_smasher, geoglyph, museum is closed and phantasmagoria supported by kf hein fonds
sound: ymer marinus, the living void - QTHQ
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