AI Władza Sztuki
AI: Authority of Art — an interactive audiovisual installation. A live debate between two AI politicians. Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 18.07–21.09.2025.
Instalacja interaktywna audiowizualna — debata dwóch AI-polityków na żywo. Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa, 18.07–21.09.2025. Computer Lars & C.U.K.T. Kuratorka: Ewa Gorządek.
Computer Lars & C.U.K.T. (Asker Bryld Staunæs, Benjamin Asger Krog Møller, Piotr Wyrzykowski, Robert Mikołaj Jurkowski)
Are we ready to let a chatbot represent us? Could the world be governed more wisely under the stewardship of AI? What happens when artificial intelligence takes its seat at the negotiating table?
AI Authority of Art is an artistic project in the form of a multi-channel, interactive audiovisual installation which invites viewers to participate in a debate between two virtual politicians: Wiktoria Cukt 2.0 and Leader Lars. Through interactive stations and telephone headset installations, the audience poses questions and receives real-time responses created by the algorithms animating these virtual figures. The exhibition engages critically with the global discourse on AI in society, set against the backdrop of a perceptible crisis in democratic systems.
The artists: “AI Authority of Art is an artistic and social experiment that raises questions about political representation in the technological age. It combines the legacy of early net art experiments with the contemporary perils and promises of artificial intelligence. It is an attempt to understand and envision a new paradigm for collaboration between humans and machines within the public sphere.”
- Wiktoria Cukt 2.0 — an autonomous, algorithmic entity: a presidential bot and independent political system of the post-human era. Reactivated by Piotr Wyrzykowski twenty-four years after the Polish presidential elections of 2000, reviving the world’s first virtual politician, originally conceived by the artistic collective C.U.K.T. (Rafał Ewertowski, Robert Mikołaj Jurkowski, Artur Kozdrowski, Jacek Niegoda, Maciej Sienkiewicz, Piotr Wyrzykowski).
- Leader Lars — emerged in 2022 as a chatbot trained on LLMs to synthesize the political views of more than two hundred Danish niche parties. He embodies the voice of voters left without representation and stands at the centre of the Danish Synthetic Party, established by the artistic group Computer Lars and the tech hub MindFuture.
Curated by Ewa Gorządek (Ujazdowski). Funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland; supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, and Województwo Pomorskie.
The exhibition served as a point of departure for reflections on the pervasiveness of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and the ways new tools may transform the landscape of politics. As Michał Kosiński, professor at Stanford University, put it: “There was Homo sapiens; now Homo algorithmus is coming.”
Part of the ongoing summit sequence initiated with the Synthetic Summit at Kunsthal Aarhus (2025) — see Wiktoriomat and Zoriana_Aarhus.
Description: interaktywna instalacja audiowizualna / interactive audiovisual installation — debata dwóch AI-polityków, praca z archiwum głosu publicznego / debate of two AI politicians, work with the archive of public voice.