A.rtificial I.ntrospection O.
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A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. relates Wiener’s theoretical positions to contemporary artistic practices that engage with introspection and cybernetics. Art is not understood as a counter-model to technology, but rather as a field in which similar processes of translation are at work as in cybernetics: visual, linguistic, and affective information is encoded, decoded, and transferred into circulating systems. Against the backdrop of a present situation in which algorithmic systems increasingly support decision-making in administration, law, communication, and the military, and in which AI-based language models simulate human communication, Wiener’s skeptical thinking gains renewed urgency. The indistinguishability of human and machine language production, paradigmatically embedded in the Turing Test, shifts the question away from intelligence toward issues of observability, control, and self-description.

What effects cybernetic intelligence will have on our everyday lives, our bodies, and our language remains partially open and can so far only be anticipated; they are and will certainly be considerable. The experimental exhibition A.I.O. seeks to make Oswald Wiener’s ideas artistically productive and to go beyond them. It engages with the relationship between cybernetics and introspection — and in doing so, interrogates the interaction between human and machine.

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