Does AI think for you? To mark the opening of the festival, we will put this question to three exceptional individuals, who will examine it from very different perspectives.
📅 2 October (Friday)
🕖 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm
📍 Auditorium
🕖 8.30 pm – 11.00 pm: opening of the exhibition “Translating Algorithms”
🕖 9.00 pm – 9.45 pm: Abstract Language Model (Live) – a performance by Andreas Lutz
The discussion will be interpreted into Polish Sign Language (PJM) and into English.
The philosopher and essayist Tomasz Stawiszyński, who has for many years been exploring the transformations in contemporary culture and human agency, will reflect on how AI is affecting our intellectual autonomy, imagination and critical thinking.
Jakub Koźniewski, an artist, designer and co-founder of the panGenerator collective, will examine the same issue from the perspective of artistic practice: how AI influences creativity, the creative process and the relationship between humans and tools.
Monika Jabłońska, PhD, a researcher and educator specialising in digital culture and media literacy, will, in turn, address the issue of the reliability of information: how to distinguish knowledge from the appearance of knowledge, recognise manipulation and remain vigilant in a world of AI-generated content.
Goście:
Tomasz Stawiszyński
Essayist, writer, philosopher
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Tomasz Stawiszyński is an essayist, writer, philosopher and author of best-selling books, including: ‘Potyczki z Freudem. Mity, pokusy i pułapki psychoterapii’, ‘Co robić przed końcem świata”, „Ucieczka od bezradności’, ‘Reguły na czas chaosu’, ‘The Powrót fatum’, ‘Ćwiczenia z dysonansu’ and ‘Czynnik alchemiczny’ (release date: 20 May 2026). He also produces the ‘Skądinąd’ podcast (www.patronite.pl/skadinad) and writes columns for ‘Tygodnik Powszechny’.
Jakub Koźniewski
Designer and new media artist
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Jakub Koźniewski is a designer and new media artist, and co-founder of the panGenerator collective, which creates work at the intersection of art, design and new technologies.
For many years, he co-led the Creative Coding postgraduate programme at the School of Form, and from 2022 to 2024 he taught on the Visiting Lectures programme at the Faculty of Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. When creating individual projects, he examines new technologies from a critical, post-digital perspective, combining digital media with physical matter and encapsulating ephemeral ideas in minimalist forms.
The panGenerator group’s projects have been exhibited at, amongst others, Ars Electronica, the ZKM in Karlsruhe, the WRO Biennale, Milan Design Week, Dutch Design Week and SXSW. The collective has received, amongst other awards, an Honourable Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica, the Cannes Golden Lion and the ‘Polityka’ Passport Award in the Digital Culture category.
dr Monika Jabłońska
Digital culture and media education researcher
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Monika Jabłońska, PhD, specialises in digital culture, media education and the critical analysis of media messages by the younger generation. She is interested in how young people assess the credibility of information and recognise persuasion, clickbait, fake news and other forms of seemingly reliable messages. Author of the book ‘Kompetencje medialne generacji Z. Pomiar – diagnoza – kształcenie’.
A member of the Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) team in Poznań participating in the PIAST AI project consortium, where she is responsible for expert and communication activities relating to the social dimension of artificial intelligence and the dissemination of knowledge about AI. The author of the ‘Podejrzanie wiarygodne’ project, carried out as part of the ZBADAI programme at the Copernicus Science Centre.
After the discussion
Following the discussion, we invite you to the opening of the festival exhibition Translating Algorithms’ and Andreas Lutz’s audiovisual performance ‘Abstract Language Model (Sync)’. The artist will combine abstract symbols generated by a neural network with sound and light to create an intense, ever-changing composition. The starting point will be the question of whether artificial intelligence can develop its own, non-human system of communication.
