4–5 June , 2025
Artep Gallery, Iași + 2 online sessions
Participation is free, but registration is required. Attendance is mandatory for 15 participants on both days physically in Iasi and for online mentoring for 2 sessions.
We invite you to join us for a two-day in-person program with curator Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, focusing on curatorial perspectives and artistic practices in relation to Artificial Intelligence. The program is going to be in English.
Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss is a cultural and media scholar, researcher and curator of scientific, digital and media practices at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. She works at the intersections of feminist and anti-colonial art, political practices, digital technologies and narratives of (human and non-human) subjectivity. Sara is also a member of the editorial collective of kritisch-lesen.de
Program at Artep Gallery, Iasi, 4-5 June 2025:
On 4 June, Sara will deliver a lecture reflecting on her own curatorial experience in working with artists and artworks that engage with AI. Drawing on projects such as AI: Ancestral Immediacies, she will discuss how artistic practices can serve as a form of media theory in the age of intelligent technologies. Her talk will explore the ways AI challenges traditional understandings of creativity, intelligence, and authorship, and how curating with AI demands new frameworks of thinking and collaboration.
On 5 June, the program continues with a masterclass led by Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, designed to explore the material, epistemic, and conceptual layers of working with and thinking through AI. Participants will engage in both group and individual reflection, starting from their own experiences or imagined interactions with AI.
Masterclass structure 5th of June:
30–45 mins: Introductions / Warm-up
1h30: AI Stories in two parts:
Collaboration stories
Ideal characteristics of human-AI collaboration (in small groups)
Group discussion
Break
1h: Input on AI Art
What is data, after all?
How does AI know what it knows?
AI and creativity:
“We must ask difficult questions of Big Data’s models of intelligibility before they crystallize into new orthodoxies.”
Participants are asked to bring a short story of past or imagined collaboration with AI. This could be written, visual, or shared from memory.
Online sessions that should be done between June-July 2025:
All 15 participants attending physically in Iași will benefit from two online curatorial mentoring sessions between June and July 2025, with one of the following curators:
Ami Barak, Suzana Dan, Cătălin Gheorghe, Daniel Neugebauer or Olivia Nițiș.
The mentoring sessions with Romanian curators can take place in Romanian. Each session lasts 1.5 hours and will be scheduled individually with the mentor.
Participation is free, but those who register must commit to:
attending both in-person sessions (4–5 June) at Artep Gallery with Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, and
participating in two online mentoring sessions during the summer.
Organizer: Artep Gallery Association
Partener principal: Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Parteneri: Universitatea Națională de Arte „George Enescu” din Iași, Institutul de Cercetare Multidisciplinară în Artă, PROPAGARTA, Empower Artists, Modernism, PIN Magazine, Destination Iași
Proiectul nu reprezintă neapărat poziția Administrației Fondului Cultural Național. AFCN nu este responsabilă pentru conținutul proiectului sau pentru modul în care pot fi utilizate lucrările. Acestea sunt în întregime responsabilitatea beneficiarului finanțării.
