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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-AT link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>HOTHOUSE. A Renegade Lab for Democracy against Technocapitalist Authoritarianism<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>September 12 – October 4, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Atelier Augarten, Scherzergasse 1A, 1020 Vienna, and online via livestream<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>thefutureofdemonstration.net/hothouse<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>HOTHOUSE, the fifth season of the art series The Future of Demonstration by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler, explores the political, social, and ecological implications of artificial intelligence – and asks how democratic agency can be remade under technocapitalist conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Artificial intelligence is already a part of our everyday lives – but how can we live with it without submitting to it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>With artificial intelligence, a transformative power has emerged with massive impact on our lives. We use AI chatbots for a wide variety of purposes today – whether at work or in our free time – and often with great benefit. Yet, every promise hides a claim, and recent AI applications indicate that the promise of a more participatory, diverse and equitable world – and hence a better planetary future – veers towards a profoundly reactionary deepening of control. Shifting from AI gamification to AI weaponization, generative AI has become the new frontier of capitalist extraction. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>HOTHOUSE brings together artists, activists, practitioners and thinkers from around the world to challenge emerging AI supremacy and how it classifies, governs and even annihilates life. They participate in real time via a new technology: 3D-point cloud video sharing allows us to create a space of shared presence at Atelier Augarten, regardless of where contributors are located on Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>What does it mean to resist? How do successful counter-alliances and counter-investigations operate? What can be done to expose and resolve power schemes that abuse AI infrastructure? How do we reorient the agency of resistance against systems and agents of oppression towards insurrections that are politically and culturally adaptable and resilient (as the German term “Widerständigkeit” implies)? Unlike closed AI black box machines, human beings are capable of betraying systems and agents of oppression. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Four performative-discursive live events focus on a specific aspect of the theme. They are embedded in an installation consisting of objects, animations, maps, posters, documentaries, videos, and sound. A Disintegrator Podcast special series and talks allow for deeper understanding, workshops offer practice-based interventions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Contributors participate via a new collective real time-technology: 3D-point cloud live video sharing allows us to create a collaborative space of shared presence, regardless of where contributors are located on Earth. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>HOTHOUSE does not use AI to create art. It is not about AI aesthetics – nor about whether AI can be made “ethical” or “friendlier.” Instead, we examine what it takes to reclaim democratic agency and human rights, and counter predatory forms of domination and the inequalities they produce.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Future of Demonstration is an art series by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler that explores new forms of collective resistance and expanded ways of perceiving the world. Its postdisciplinary format combines exhibition, discourse, performance and documentation, bringing together artistic, technological, political and social practices in a participatory way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>HOTHOUSE is produced in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation – Global Unit for Human Security, Tactical Tech, Berlin; and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Participating groups and initiatives include adO/Aptive (Vienna), Disintegrator Podcast (Online), Forensic Architecture / Centre for Research Architecture (London), Stop Killer Robots Coalition (Global), Technopolitics (Vienna), Territorial Agency (London). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Contributors: https://thefutureofdemonstration.net/hothouse/programme.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Programme: https://thefutureofdemonstration.net/hothouse/credits.html<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>thefutureofdemonstration.net/hothouse <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>TIM.theories in mind<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>postdigital art club<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>gene@theoriesinmind.net<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>www.theoriesinmind.net<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>www.thefutureofdemonstration.net<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Neulinggasse 9/VI<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A-1030 Wien<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>