Me + You + Them = Us. The Algorithms of Freedom – curator: Réka VassÉn + Te + Ők = Mi. A szabadság algoritmusai – kurátor: Vass Réka
In a world where invisible control and codes, technological systems, natural resources, and cultural memories are intricately intertwined, art helps reinterpret our relationships with each other and our environment. The exhibition’s six works explore the relationship between technology and democracy, the interaction between humans and nature, and the possibilities of seeking common connections. A rich, multilayered narrative unfolds, offering new paths to experiencing freedom, responsibility, and community.
In this exhibition, we all create as equals – machine, human, and nature. The algorithms of freedom are no longer just systems but the webs of our relationships, where Me, You, and Them ultimately meet in our collective Us.
Come and take a look into the world around us, and the world we shape – through the eyes of art!
Exhibited works:
AI Hyperrealism – Martyna Marciniak
In her work AI Hyperrealism, Martyna explores the world of artificial intelligence and synthetic images, with particular focus on the Balenciaga Pope hoax that surfaced in 2023. In this 18-minute video, the artist examines the mechanisms of AI generation and our relationship with visual culture. The monologue performed by the Balenciaga Pope questions traditional notions of facts and photographic evidence, while revealing the effects of digital hoaxes and synthetic images. The project aims to reinterpret the world of artificially generated information, images, and hoaxes, connecting them with the history of photography.
Martyna is a Polish-born artist, researcher, and 3D designer based in Berlin. Her work investigates visual storytelling, including animation, film, writing, modeling, and sculpture. In her artistic practice, she uses opposing narratives and pataforensics methods to uncover technological and visual biases, linking aesthetics, law, politics, and media theory.
She has collaborated with international organizations such as Forensic Architecture, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. Martyna is a founding member of the Border Emergency Collective, which documented stories of migrants at the Polish-Belarusian border. Her works have been shown at prestigious venues including the Ars Electronica Festival, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, and the Warsaw Biennale.
The Falling City – Noemi Iglesias Barrios
The Falling City is a thought-provoking project that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to measure urban emotions. The installation aims to understand and visualize people’s emotional behaviors in public spaces through AI, with special attention to manifestations of empathy and love. The artist’s work Emotional Counter questions artificial empathy focused on detecting emotions in public spaces, visually and as data recording human connections. The project explores not only AI’s technological applications but also its ethical implications while seeking new ways to digitally interpret human relationships.
Noemi Iglesias Barrios is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher from Spain working with porcelain and long-term performative forms.
Her work investigates the role of visual arts at the intersection of experimental disciplines like sculpture and digital technologies. Her art creates new provocative concepts using traditional ceramic techniques, examining the effects of consumer society on emotional experiences such as love.
Since 2009, Noemi has lived and worked in several countries, including Greece, England, Finland, Italy, Hungary, China, and Korea. She recently received the Artificial Empathy residency at Gluon and is working on The Falling City project supported by Ars Electronica. Her works have been exhibited at renowned venues such as the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid and Laboral Centro de Arte in Spain.
Stratum – Silvia Binda Heiserova
Stratum is an electronic sculpture centered on the concept of time and its measurement. The installation takes the form of an antenna tower that questions the synchronized time customary in the digital world. The project explores the concept of global time and its hidden layers, revealing concealed truths within technological devices. The artist uses the Network Time Protocol (NTP) hierarchy as a base and imagines the layer beyond official synchronization. Stratum does not synchronize time but observes, senses, and visualizes it through various data and sound-based representations, disrupting the concept of time in the digital realm.
Silvia Binda Heiserova is a visual and multimedia artist, researcher, and creative coder. Her multidisciplinary practice examines power relations in the digital age with a particular focus on gender perspectives. She employs an analytical and critical approach to undermine stereotypical and biased representations in social and virtual spaces. Silvia earned her PhD in Fine Arts: Practice and Research at the Technical University of Valencia, where she was part of the Art and Gender research group. She also holds MFA degrees in Artistic Creation, focusing on painting and contemporary art practice, and in Visual and Multimedia Arts from the same institution. Silvia founded offDAC, a decentralized art community exploring the intersections of feminism, art, and technology.
Experiments on the Photochemical Materials and Ecological Relations of Soil – Tamás Cseke
The installation reflects on the intertwined, sometimes contradictory relationship between soil, fertilizer, and photochemistry through personal memories and industrial heritage. Using bio-processes, images printed on living material, and spatially arranged objects—prints on kombucha paper, fertilizer bags, photographs depicting factories—it creates a subtle dialogue between ecological responsibility and image-making methods. The work approaches sustainable material use in photography with a research and experimental attitude.
Tamás Cseke is a Budapest-based photographer whose work is mainly concerned with existentialism, social issues, capitalism, and its influence on fashion and art worlds. He uses both images and text, with his photographic works often based on research. His conceptual works have been exhibited at the Budapest Photo Festival (2022), the Different Worlds Festival in Ljubljana (2023), and featured online on Vogue.com and i-D magazine platforms. He is deeply interested in people and interpersonal relationships and seizes every opportunity to explore the energies of the human body—whether in dance or fashion photography.
Not Like Other Trees – Lindi Dedek
This short film project explores the cultural significance of two trees: the African mpingo (ebony) and the Central European willow, intimately intertwined with the artistic and spiritual traditions of local communities. The two-part work presents how relationships with trees have transformed under globalization, industrialization, and religious influence, focusing on ecological justice and the slowly disappearing world of crafts. The work personally and essayistically highlights how natural elements become carriers of collective identity, local stories, and art.
Lindi Dedek is a Berlin-based Czech artist primarily working in film and performance, and active as a curator at the Neisse Film Festival. Her work investigates human and non-human relationships shaped by late capitalism, blending folklore, queer theory, comedy, and ecological decolonization themes. Her research-based practice uses ethnographic methods, participatory interventions, and alternative film techniques to create new perspectives on Eastern European stories.