As artificial intelligence blazes through the many fields of creative practice, perhaps now is the time to check the temperature of the smoldering remains.

At the heart of contemporary artistic and design practices lies worldbuilding—whether through speculative futures, design fiction, or immersive storytelling. The act of imagining new realities has become a central strategy for constructing alternative possibilities within our increasingly complex world. While AI is often marketed as a kind of demiurge, capable of conjuring up previously unimaginable worlds, it does not, in fact, create anything truly new. Instead, it recombines fragments of the past, remixing and repurposing the vast references it has been trained on.

Over the past decade, practitioners at HEAD – Genève have explored hybrid strategies of critical collaboration and contamination with artificial models, resisting the passive substitution of traditional tools with the latest fashionable ones. This exhibition presents a selection of these approaches, navigating the boundaries between the artificial and the authentic, shaping futures that neither human nor machine intuition alone could have conceived.

Avec la participation des artistes : Léonore Baud, Sylvie Boisseau, Sabrina Calvo, Léonie Courbat, Kevin Donnot, Fanny Ducommun, Douglas Edric Stanley, Raphaël Florez Uria, Élise Gay, Hervé Graumann, Margot Herbelin, Étienne Mineur, Loan Nguyen, Nicolas Nova, Hanieh Rashid, Chloé Richard, Daniel Stucki, Sven Waelti, Elsa Wagnières, Frank Westermeyer

Curation : Douglas Edric Stanley et Alexia Mathieu
Assistance curation et scénographie : Andreia Rodrigues et Hanieh Rashid
Concept d'exposition : Pool numérique, HEAD – Genève Vytas Jankauskas et Chloé Michel

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