A.rtificial I.ntrospection O.

with Oswald Wiener, Jenna Bliss, Günter Brus, VALIE EXPORT, Tishan Hsu, Morag Keil, Josh Kline, Michael Krebber, Maria Lassnig, Ken Okiishi, Walter Pichler, Rudolf Polanszky, Dieter Roth, Agnes Scherer, Tiffany Sia, Franz West, Ingrid Wiener, amongst others

The exhibition A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. (A.I.O.) examines thinking, perception, and subjectivity within the tension between introspection, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence. Its point of departure is the work of the Austrian writer, cognitive psychologist, and cyberneticist Oswald Wiener (1935 – 2021), whose genuine thinking since the 1950s critically navigated between these fields while systematically resisting institutional appropriation. A.I.O. relates Wiener’s theoretical positions and literary oeuvre to corresponding artistic practices and interrogates the interaction between human and machine. Against the backdrop of a present situation in which algorithmic systems increasingly support decision-making, and in which AI-based language models simulate human communication, Wiener’s skeptical thinking gains renewed urgency. The exhibition opens the historical horizon of Wiener’s thinking toward artists close to him and a younger generation that does not continue his questions directly, but reconfigures them under contemporary conditions.