On May 29, the second author talk in a series dedicated to analyzing speculations about the future through the medium of the image will take place at the Provincial Public Library. Katarzyna Nestorowicz and Marcin Nowicki — the transdisciplinary artistic-research duo NOVIKI — will discuss artistic subjectivity in the algorithmic age.
When authorship becomes a matter of negotiation — between human and machine, suspended between individual authorship and collaboration — how does technology affect creative subjectivity? In an increasingly algorithmic culture, where the feed has replaced chronology and perception is constantly shaped by opaque systems of categorization, visual art can become a tool for critical inquiry. The meeting will offer an opportunity to revisit the lexicon of Vilém Flusser and to reflect on how visual art may serve as a tool for critical engagement with this cognitive impotence — and with what it implies for the future. The conversation will also provide a closer look at Future Fragments, an initiative bringing together voices, ideas, and concepts from people exploring the intersection of intelligence, technology, and visual art.
The discussion will be moderated by Lena Peplińska.
Shifting States of Attention. Poznań Pavilion
AI algorithm hallucinations — Stany skupienia: NOVIKI (Marcin Nowicki, Katarzyna Nestorowicz), 22 April, 7:00 pm
In April, as part of the Stany skupienia series, we will host Marcin Nowicki and Katarzyna Nestorowicz from the NOVIKI studio. The event will focus on AI hallucinations. Following a screening of the films—or rather film essays—Machine Dream and The Image Beyond the Eye, there will be a conversation with the invited guests. As an additional point of reference for the discussion, the book I’ll Be Your Mirror (ed. Marcin Nowicki, Natalia Juchniewicz, Future Fragments, 2025) will be used.
Stany skupienia is a post-cinema event series curated by Andrzej Marzec. Each meeting consists of a short introduction, a film screening, and a conversation with invited artists. This year, every event also revolves around a specific theme, explored both in the film and in the discussion. Each time, the conversation is further anchored by a book selected or published by the guest(s) of the series.
Stany skupienia focuses on the work of stitching, assembling, and preserving a reality that has been fragmented and strained by multiple, overlapping crises. In response to the experience of a disintegrating, fractured world, grand, escapist utopian projects are no longer viable; instead, what emerges are everyday, local, perhaps even provisional practices of small repairs and attempts at regeneration.
FF at Taipei Netorks: Book Launch
On January 28, the world premiere of Future Fragments took place at Mist Bookstore (薄霧書店). The publication is the outcome of the year-long Future Fragments program — a think tank exploring the intersections of technology and art, artificial intelligence, and contemporary artistic practices. The program unfolded through lectures, meetings, and an academic seminar, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and research.
The launch gathered an audience interested in the evolving relationship between art and emerging technologies. The discussion focused on creative processes, the role of AI in artistic practice, and the future of collaboration between artists and technological systems.
The event was made possible thanks to the support of Instytut Adama Mickiewicza through the Networks programme.
@future_fragments_project @mistbook Ray JH Chang (張睿紘) @mickiewicz_institute
The World in Saturation: Perception Beyond Reality
We concluded the 2025 Future Fragments activities with an interdisciplinary seminar held at SWPS University in Warsaw.
Participants: Krzysztof Pijarski, Kuba Depczyński, Kuba Kulesza, Natalia Korczakowska, Jan Sowa, Katarzyna Nestorowicz, Andrzej Marzec, and Natalia Juchniewicz.
Future Fragments is an initiative that explores the impact of technology on our future, including how we understand intelligence. Today, intelligence is no longer seen as a fixed attribute of individuals, but rather as an emergent, relational phenomenon—unfolding through interactions among organisms, systems, and the environment. Technology, in turn, is not opposed to nature, but serves as another layer of the global ecosystem in which we live. Over time, as intelligence and technology continue to evolve—both in human and nonhuman forms—our understanding of their roles and mutual impact must also change.
Future Fragments is a dynamic, decentralized platform creating a space for voices, ideas, and individuals from various fields to converge and co-create the discourse on intelligence and technology. The lectures, discussions, workshops, presentations, and publications within Future Fragments are aimed at anyone interested in our changing present and the incoming future—researchers, creators, practitioners, and those seeking to better understand what is happening at the intersection of technology and culture.
Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage under the Polish Creative Industries Development Centre’s own program: Rozwój Sektorów Kreatywnych. @crpkpl
The Blue Flower in the Land of Technology
The discussion is taking place at Fotofestiwal in Łódź as part of the Future Fragments project. The starting point for the conversation is the interdisciplinary project Dream of the Machine by the artist-designer duo Noviki, and Post-Radio by director, film producer, and AI researcher Jacek Nagłowski, inspired by Wojciech Bruszewski’s Radio Ruins of Art.
The discussion features Ada Florentyna Pawlak—an anthropologist of technology, lawyer, and art historian—and Krzysztof Pijarski, a visual artist, contemporary culture researcher, and co-founder of the Visual Narratives Laboratory at the Łódź Film School, currently a lecturer at SWPS University.
Participants: Ada Florentyna Pawlak, SWPS University Jacek Nagłowski, vnLab / Łódź Film School Marcin Nowicki, Noviki Krzysztof Pijarski, SWPS University, vnLab / Łódź Film School
