In the hidden expanses of vast mathematical matrices, artificial neural networks comprehend the world as code and begin to learn independently — generating images and sounds, writing, translating, and speaking. Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally transforming the ways in which images are created, processed, distributed, and viewed. The catalogue accompanying the exhibition THE WORLD THROUGH AI undertakes foundational research and interrogates these new tools, which make it possible to rethink and renew creative processes. The book presents works from the past ten years by international artists such as Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler, Christian Marclay, Trevor Paglen, and Hito Steyerl, who engage with new AI technologies from a variety of perspectives, illuminating the influence of these technologies on culture, society, economics, and politics, as well as on contemporary artistic practice.

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Explore contemporary artistic engagements with the latest developments in an increasingly AI-shaped world.

The World Through AI, edited by Ada Ackerman, Alexandre Gefen, Antonio Somaini, and Pia Viewing, with contributions by Ada Ackerman, Noam Elcott and Tim Trombley, Alexandre Gefen, Nick Monfort, Fabian Offert, Antonio Somaini, and Joanna Zylinska. English edition, 304 pages, approx. 220 illustrations, 15.5 x 21.5 cm, paperback, JBE Books, ISBN 978-2-36568-108-7, 35 € (SCHIRN), 39 € (bookshop).