transmediale: Exhibition "Emergent Conditions"
How does the constant evolution of technologies (re)shape coexistence among humans, synthetic agents, and their environments? And what emerges from these relations, whether desired or imposed?
Opening: Tuesday 3 November, 6 pm
Artist talk & séance: 7 November, 6 pm
Emergent Conditions investigates possible forms of coexistence between human and synthetic agents, inviting speculative narratives about near futures. Bringing together three works at the intersection of artistic and scientific research, the exhibition reflects on the tensions and bridges that emerge from new capacities acquired by synthetic agents, including very human qualities such as memory and voice.
The three installations locate technology as something felt in the body, in memory, in the rhythms of attention and perception. Working with compression, trained AI models, and hidden signals, the exhibition puts the phenomenon of emergence as a strategy to come into existence at its center.
Drawing from cybernetics and critical AI studies to quantum computing, neuroscience, and memory studies, the artists make visible the growing co-constitution of subjectivity between human experience and technological systems.
The exhibition is part of Berlin Science Week.
Tuesday, 3 November until Sunday, 8 November
3 November: 6–10 pm
4–8 November: 2–8 pm
transmediale studio
Admission free