Meeting

Latent Space Realism. Artist talk with Metahaven

15.05.2026 18:00–19:30

The event is a part of the Future Fragments series

LOCATION

Auditorium

LANGUAGE

English

ADMISSION

Free thanks to the cooperation with Audi Polska

A vibrant abstract digital display features swirling rainbow colors on two large screens in a dark room, evoking a mesmerizing and surreal atmosphere.

Metahaven, Hometown, 2018. Two-channel film work

This presentation highlights recent work and looks at ongoing projects concerned with the materiality of abstraction. There is a particular focus on artificial neural networks and so-called latent spaces in AI. Latent spaces—high-dimensional representational manifolds learned during model training—encode properties that directly influence outputs and, by extension, shape what we experience as AI.
 
We ask whether these abstract configuration spaces can be read not merely as mathematical systems, but as complex sites or interiors. This direction is explored in “Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans” (2026), developed as a close collaboration with Nina Beguš, Gašper Beguš, and Riccardo Petrini for the Antikythera journal. The piece draws parallels between generative adversarial networks (GANs) and James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake

Metahaven

Future Fragments

The event is supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands.

PARTNER:

Kingdom of the Netherlands

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