lbi-netmed – Annette Tesarek

AI – Threats and Promises

Artistic Positions on Post-Digital Futures

Opening: June 30, 2026, 18:00 – 22:00
Duration: June 30 – August 26, 2026
Venue: AG18 GALLERY, Annagasse 18, 1010 Vienna
Programme: A programme of lectures, discussions and artist talks will accompany the exhibition.

© Photo courtesy of Ana Vollwesen and Andreas Schlichtner

Following its presentation at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw, the exhibition has been revised and expanded for its Vienna edition.

While AI has become one of the most significant developments of our time, exhibitions that critically engage with its implications remain surprisingly rare. Yet precisely for this reason, artistic engagement is essential.

How do we negotiate agency and responsibility in a culture shaped by AI and algorithms?

This exhibition approaches AI not merely as a creative tool but as an infrastructure that shapes perception, knowledge production, social relations and imaginaries of the future. The participating artists explore questions of bias, surveillance, ethics, authorship, delegation and participation, examining both the potentials and the risks of AI and data-driven systems.

Artists

Academic Partners

The Future Foundation
LBI-NetMed – Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine, University of Vienna https://netmed.lbg.ac.at/news/lbi-netmed-joins-exhibition-ai-threats-and-promises-in-vienna-this-summer/

As an academic partner, LBI-NetMed contributes to this discourse with both artistic and scientific components:

Lectures: Jörg Menche will contribute a talk to the exhibition’s accompanying programme of lectures, discussions, and artist talks. Expected date: 21 July.

Media Installation: A new version of “pile of trash”, a collaborative work featuring an AI interface, developed by Sebastian Pirch and Norbert Unfug.

Performance: “Space oracle – Summer Edition”
Following the initial performance exploring the interface between human and artificial intelligence, the project returns for a special Summer Edition. This time, artist Annette Tesarek collaborates with Norbert Unfug for a unique intervention.

Curated by: Andreas Schlichtner https://artcoas.com/
AG18 GALLERY https://ag18gallery.com/de/

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PARNASS Art Magazine features “X FRAMES PER SPACE”. A collaborative exploration by LBI-NetMed and Vienna Contemporary Art Space into how scientific data and artistic perspectives shape our reality.

PARNASS Art Magazine has published a feature on the exhibition “X FRAMES PER SPACE – different logics, shared questions,” which took place in November 2025 at the Alte WU in Vienna. As the final major cultural event hosted in the former University of Economics building, the exhibition served as a significant highlight of Vienna Art Week 2025.

Curated by Annette Tesarek, Melina Steiner, and Sebastian Pfeifhofer (with co-curators Christiane Hütter, Norbert Unfug, and Andreas Schlichtner), the project transformed 1.200 square meters into a complex system of relations. It brought together approximately one hundred contributions from art, science, and technology, creating a mycelial network where different disciplines actively nourished one another. A central element was the collaboration with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine, whose multidisciplinary team integrated research into a layered parcours of painting, sculpture, robotics, AI, and digital art.

The exhibition examined the conditions that shape human perception and demonstrated how the interaction between scientific data and artistic production opens new pathways for the future. Even beyond its closing, the networks sparked between these fields continue to resonate.

Organizers: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine & Vienna Contemporary Art Space In Cooperation with: Open Innovation in Science Center of the LBG, WEST/ Alte WU, Alsergrund district, and Vienna Art Week 2025

Read the full article: PARNASS: X FRAMES PER SPACE
View the featured works: whatevr.xyz

Curating Team: Andreas Schlichtner, Melina Steiner, Sebastian Pfeifhofer, Annette Tesarek, Christiane Hütter, Jörg Menche (Director Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine), Norbert Unfug (LTR), © Sophie Menegaldo | Ivory Rose Photography
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