What if the systems we built to maintain order—climate models, neural nets, geopolitical scripts—have begun to hallucinate? In these visions, panic doesn’t erupt; it flickers, loops, crawls on robotic legs, dissolves into toxic waters. This exhibition asks not if we panic, but how machines hallucinate panic through us—and how we might begin to speak across that divide.
Phantom Protocols brings together artists who disrupt hidden architectures of control—ecological, algorithmic, psychological—to reveal points of fracture. These projects map thresholds: when human sovereignty falters, when animals enter feedback loops, when machines form logic of their own.
Drift of the Uncharted guides a robot through a submerged cityscape, envisioning futures shaped by rising seas.
Algorithmic Miner unveils the unseen labor of AI, where golden jellyfish drift through surreal, annotated datascapes.
Capillary Network visualizes toxic flows that blur lines between species and machines.
Machine Civilization stages a parliament of symbols no longer meant for human eyes.
Chimpanzee, Run! gamifies extinction, inviting us to navigate collapse as endangered kin.
In a world increasingly shaped by artificial agency and ecological collapse, we need more than just interspecies empathy; we need robust intercultural communication. Panic is not merely a symptom; it is a signal. Perhaps it is time we truly listened—to each other, and to the dreams of our machines and other cultures.
