An exhibition by Sylvia Eckermann / Gerald Nestler / Aaron Berman.

Exhibition opening hours: 12–15 November, 3.00–6.00 pm.

ABLAZE is an interactive art installation that opens with an experimental live demonstration. The project intervenes directly in the inner workings of large language models (LLMs), turning their internal structures into artistic material.

How do these models learn behavioural patterns of authority and subjection? And can those patterns be changed? The opening demonstration traces patterns of power within a language model and explores how they can be experimentally shifted or weakened. Visual translations, sounds, and narratives bring these otherwise hidden processes into view and make their effects perceptible.

The exhibition invites visitors to experiment for themselves. They can enter their own prompts and adjust the models along selected axes between power and powerlessness, authority and subjection, exploring how the responses change. This interaction reveals how interventions in the models’ internal structures make some answers more likely and others less so. Rather than taking a response as an unquestioned truth, visitors encounter a range of possibilities that can be altered through these internal interventions. What room does this open for deviation and refusal?

ABLAZE explores an aesthetics of resolution: making patterns of power perceptible while experimenting with ways to loosen their hold. Through this artistic exploration, the project asks: How can we better understand the systems that increasingly shape our everyday lives? And how can we use that understanding to strengthen our capacity to act and, when necessary, resist?

Kindly supported by

& by Bezirkskultur for the 3rd District.