Jaroslav Anděl – AI & predecessors

Praha 6
Exhibitions
Date
28. 11. 2025 - 28. 03. 2026
ENDED
Institution
Venue
Technická 6, 160 00 Praha 6

The key technologies of the 20th century - ammonia synthesis, the atomic bomb, punch-tag machining and the computer program ELIZA - have shaped the world today with their solutions and problems. The exhibition shows through the stories of their four protagonists - Fritz Haber, Robert Oppenheimer, Thomas J. Watson and Joseph Weizenbaum - that the rapid development of so-called artificial intelligence raises urgent questions that resonate with the problems of previous technologies. The exhibition presents facts, contemporary and contemporary opinions and historical documents together with artworks by the exhibition's author Jaroslav Anděl. The central thesis of the exhibition is that power and technology are intertwined. It is possible to learn from the stories of four powerful technologies and their protagonists if we are not to repeat their tragic course. They show that decisions about the development and use of technology can have far-reaching consequences that are not necessarily always positive. This means that we should not only try to anticipate what these decisions may bring us, but also ask who is making the decisions, who they represent and who they are accountable to. Jaroslav Anděl is a conceptual artist, photographer, art historian and curator. He was born in 1949 in Znojmo. In the 1980s he emigrated to the USA, where he worked as an exhibition organizer, critic and teacher at Columbia University. After the revolution he returned to the Czech Republic and in 1996-1998 he was the director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of the National Gallery in Prague. He was the founder and then artistic director of the DOX Centre.

Jaroslav Anděl – AI & predecessors

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