Events

Keynote Opening Party Talks Guided tour Performance AI Cinema Workshop
05.05.2025
17:00–18:15
Keynote
Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
Keynote by Kate Crawford in Dialogue with Clemens Apprich and Wendy Chun
Model Collapse: The Cascading Failures of Algorithms, Ecosystems, and Economies
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05.05.2025
19:00–21:00
Opening, Party
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Festival and Exhibition Opening
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09.05.2025
17:00–18:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Curator Talk with Nadim Samman
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09.05.2025
18:00–19:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Artist Talk with Dane Sutherland
As a Dog Returns to its Vomit: Model Collapse and MUSH in the Most Dismal Swamp
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09.05.2025
19:00–20:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Artist Talk with Eva & Franco Mattes
We Are All NPCs
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09.05.2025
20:00–22:00
Party
Café Kunsthalle am Karlsplatz
DJ Set Mara Never (Augend&Addend)
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10.05.2025
12:00–12:45
Guided tour
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Curator’s Tour
through the exhibition Model Collapse with Nadim Samman
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10.05.2025
13:00–14:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Lecture by Paul Feigelfeld
Optimal Brain Damage. Techno-Fascism, AI-thoritarianism and Countercultural Techniques
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10.05.2025
14:00–15:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Lecture by Elke Schwarz
New Militarism, Tech-Fetishism, and Artificial Idiocy
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10.05.2025
15:00–16:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Lecture by Felix Stalder
The Collapse of the (Western) Model of Reality
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10.05.2025
16:00–17:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Artist Talk by Emmanuel Van der Auwera
AI, Cinema & Post-Truth
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10.05.2025
19:00–19:30
Performance
Reaktor
Lecture-Performance by Lil Internet
:::FEEL THE FUTURE:::
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10.05.2025
19:30–22:00
AI Cinema
Reaktor
AI Cinema Night
with Silvia Dal Dosso, Jonas Lund, Most Dismal Swamp, Inès Sieulle, Troika, Emmanuel van der Auwera
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10–11.05.2025
23:00–06:00
Party
PRST Club
Club Night
with Antonia XM, DJ Terror, Etapp Kyle and Phase Fatal
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11.05.2025
12:00–13:00
Guided tour
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Guided Tour
through the exhibition Model Collapse followed by AR/VR Tour with Belma Bešlić-Gál, Catherine Spet and Markus Wintersberger
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11.05.2025
14:00–15:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Artist Talk with Joey Holder
From the Noo to the Woo
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11.05.2025
13:00–14:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Artist Talk with Silva Dal Dosso
The Future is Finally Weird As Fuck 
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11.05.2025
15:00–16:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Talk with Lil Internet & Caroline Busta (EN)
:::Transmit the Future:::
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11.05.2025
19:00–19:30
Performance
Reaktor
Lecture-Performance by Malpractice (EN)
Agents as a Medium: Prompting Against the Default
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11.05.2025
19:30–22:00
AI Cinema
Reaktor
AI Cinema Night
by S()fia Braga, Arthur Chopin, Andrea Khôra, Ala Roushan & Charles Stankievech, Emmanuel van der Auwera, Clemens van Wedemayer
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14.05.2025
18:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Artist Talk with Ruth Schnell (DE)
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15.05.2025
15:00–18:00
Workshop
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Workshop with Paul Feigelfeld and Klimentina Li (EN)
Digital Self-Defense: Techno-Authoritarianism and Countercultural Techniques 
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15.05.2025
18:30–19:30
Guided tour
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Curator’s Tour (EN)
through the exhibition Model Collapse with Nadim Samman
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16.05.2025
18:00–20:00
Performance
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Sound and Performance Series with Misonica and Rent
hosted by ROTOR; curated by Michael Fischer
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17.05.2025
12:00–13:00
Guided tour
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Curator’s Tour (EN)
through the exhibition Model Collapse with Nadim Samman
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17.05.2025
13:00–14:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Artist Talk with Arvida Byström
In the Clouds: The Intersection of Technology and Desire
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17.05.2025
14:00–15:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Lecture by Klaus Speidel
«The totality of crap online»? — Towards A Hauntology Of Generative AI
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17.05.2025
15:00–16:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Artist Talk by Ala Roushan & Charles Stankievech (EN)
Solar Threads: Modelling from Mitraism to Machinism
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17.05.2025
16:00–17:00
Talks
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Lecture by Matteo Pasquinelli (EN)
Empire Model Collapse: Information Entropy and the Toxic Implosion of Technofeudalism
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17.05.2025
22:00–22:30
Performance
Haus der Republik / Funkhaus
Performance by Arvida Byström (EN)
A Cybernetic Doll’s House
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17–18.05.2025
22:30–03:30
Party
Haus der Republik / Funkhaus
Club Night
with Anthea (Partisan), Amanda Mussi and Malounadou
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18.05.2025
12:00–13:00
Guided tour
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Guided Tour (DE)
through the exhibition Model Collapse followed by AR Tour with Belma Bešlić-Gál, Catherine Spet and Markus Wintersberger
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18.05.2025
13:00–17:00
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Lecture series (EN)
curated with Spike Magazine, followed by a Q&A
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