18.09.2025 – 14.11.2025
Media art and media artists are considered pioneers when it comes to reflecting on the use of artificial intelligence and highlighting perspectives for fair and ethically responsible use – such as the right not to be controllable or codeable. From intelligent algorithms that evolve beyond the intentions of their programmers to installations and sculptures that grow in symbiosis with their environment or even organisms, current media art positions show that creativity is always a process that can never be completely controlled, but is always generative and innovative without it being possible to recognise or predict its goal in advance. Art therefore needs and creates space for dynamic, open-ended work. Complex new networks of human, more-than-human and non-human actors are surprisingly creative. These new creative agents – such as AI models – remind us that creativity has always been a collaborative and cooperative act, a symbiotic-evolutionary process that transcends the human.
Artists
Sofia Crespo (ARG), Harriet Davey (GBR/DEU), Imogen Davey (GBR), Emanuel Gollob (AUT), Akinori Goto (JPN), Juli Laczkó (HUN/NDL), Nicolas Montgermont (FRA), Anna Ridler (GBR), Jennifer Merlyn Scherler (CHE), Lotta Stöver (DEU), Jiří Suchánek (CZE), House of Horrors (INT), Uncomputable Practices (INT), ::vtol:: (RUS/SLO)
OUT OF CONTROL – Part II
18.09.2025 – 14.11.2025
esc medienkunstlabor
Bürgergasse 5, 8010 Graz
www.esc.mur.at
