Pattern of Activation:

Katja Novitskova raises the question of how an entirely technologized future might look. Artificial intelligence is on the rise, robots learn quickly, rarely make mistakes and – perhaps their most important advantage over human beings – are not driven by emotions. They have long been carrying out monotonous assembly line work in industry and relieving error-prone human workers. What would happen if artificial intelligence created by people were to take over the reins for itself and begin to control the world – would humanity then be free of the concerns of economic cycles, political unrest and global warming, or would the result soon morph into a dystopian horror scenario? Do we, as daily beneficiaries of digitalization, find ourselves on the brink of a revolutionary upheaval in power relationships – or do machines equipped with artificial intelligence actually have no interest in human beings? Pattern of Activation poses this question in the protected sphere of an exhibition, triggering a mixture of wonder, perplexity and repugnance in the observer.