recent show: model collapse @ ars electronica sep 2025 soon starting residency: bodies-machines-publics @ khoj, new delhi currently fellow at: onassis air/onx now on show: archive.dweller @ centraal museum > dec 2026 


model collapse

solo exhibition, 2024 - 2025 @ tetem

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

︎︎︎ noorderlicht biennale machine entanglements july 12 until aug 28 2025
︎︎︎ ars electronica september 3 - 7 2025 



exhibition in collaboration with: ymer marinus and tetem
updates version 2: collaboration between telemagic (+ roos groothuizen)

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






model collapse @ tetem 2024 - 2025, pictures by tessa wiegerinck + ayseephotography


model collapse @ ars electronica features 2025, pictures by tom mesic


model collapse @ noorderlicht biennale 2025, pictures by hanne van der velde and peter tijhuis








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