Exocapitalism is the idea that capitalism doesn't belong to us: that it works as a form, almost like an algorithm, and could keep working without us. The seminar runs through several of its core mechanisms – Lift and Fold – before turning to the concept of the Superdark Factory. Lift is capital's tendency to pull away from fixed costs, from the ground, from the sphere of human affairs. You can see it in an airline that no longer sells seats but positions in a queue, or in a telecom operator that sells its towers and keeps using them as a tenant. Fold is the process by which difference emerges without any change to the substrate – the lens through which we read the software economy. We close by introducing and discussing the Superdark Factory: a factory that determines its own objectives, the automation of automation – and what it means...

Unpredictable Atmosphere is an audiovisual and spatial installation that reimagines the web as an optical device capable of unfolding climate models in real time. It examines how AI-based climate models systematically overlook outliers – extreme atmospheric events such as hurricanes. The work exposes a structural condition embedded within contemporary AI foundation models: the privileging of statistical regularity and the marginalisation of deviation. These outliers sit at the edge of prediction, exposing the failures and blind spots of technological systems built on historical data. Yet it is within these anomalies that the atmosphere reveals its most critical transformations. Developed in collaboration with fluid dynamics experts and climate scientists, the project spatially unfolds climate models according to their computational grid structures. Within this framework, strips of data render possible futures in which past hurricane data – outliers that escaped accurate prediction – reassemble in space through infinite combinations. The resulting simulations generate...

AI Hyperrealism is the first chapter of Anatomy of Non-Fact, a larger art-research project by Martyna Marciniak which examines the aesthetics of visual misinformation in the era of synthetic images. The work focuses on the image of the “Balenciaga Pope” – the AI-generated picture of Pope Francis in a white puffer jacket – which captured the public’s attention and imagination during the so-called “AI-boom” of 2023. The artist restages the image physically, allowing for a careful examination of the errors and lapses emerging from the flawed generative process. In the exhibition space, the audience becomes confronted with a materialised version of the Balenciaga Pope’s coat – all the impossibilities, lapses and glitches of the synthetic artefact are physically reconstructed, while references to history of visual truth from baroque to recent blobifications of AI-generated images are embroidered in the coat’s lining. Three small sculptural pieces complete the installation. In the 16-minute...

Oracle Index is a generative cinema installation that imagines a future Cuba in which cryptocurrency, prediction markets, artificial intelligence, underground gambling, and divination become intertwined as systems for navigating economic uncertainty. The work begins from a speculative scenario. In the aftermath of a total embargo known on the island as La Opción Cero, the government turns to cryptocurrency and prediction markets to draw in hard currency and foreign capital. The Communist Party adopts Futarchy, a model of governance in which political institutions set collective goals while market speculators bet on which policies are most likely to reach them, with the blockchain supplying the transparency and resistance to manipulation the system requires. Locked out of the state-backed platform, ordinary Cubans build underground betting economies, trading derivatives of the official markets over illicit satellite links and repurposing government data streams as raw material for La Bolita, the island’s centuries-old numbers lottery. As...