Join a guided tour through the exhibition Model Collapse. Exploring politics and digital culture, it opens with Eva & Franco Mattes’ But I Like Human (2025), a video of TikTok streamers as NPCs, examining how algorithms shape human subjectivity. Joey Holder’s The Woosphere (2025) immerses viewers in a digital dream about non-human beings in our collective imagination. Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler’s Calculating Empires (2024) is a 24-metre diagram tracing the relationship between technology and power. Arvida Byström investigates deepfake porn and digital sexual futures. Mathias Gramoso’s Perpetual Echo (2024) explores the narcissus complex. Troika’s installation casts the works in machine vision hues.

After the guided tour of the exhibition, Belma Bešlić-Gál, Catherine Spet and Markus Wintersberger will present their augmented reality installation //ONTOLOGICAL_GLITCH:// in the public space around Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz. The work deals with the overlapping of digital and physical realities and places artificial intelligence as a fluid, post-human presence. //ONTOLOGICAL_GLITCH:// questions the autonomy of AI systems and their possible decoupling from human perception.

Using the Vdonaukanal app, you can visualise and experience the works as 3D animations on your own smartphone.

//ONTOLOGICAL_GLITCH:// is a project by Kultur 1 and was realised with the support of Wien Holding.