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January 17 >
March 1 2025
At ELEKTRA Gallery
Tuesday – Saturday
12:00 – 5:00 pm
Free entrance
Boris Eldagsen
Fragments of an Artificial Consciousness
“Fragments of an Artificial Consciousness” gathers three video series to explore the concept of artificial consciousness, shining a light on its inherent, real-world limitations. Presenting “Professional Development”, “Goldberg’s Cave”, and selected works from “Neverending Stories”, the exhibition deploys AI-generated video loops and fragments to consider the fictional nature of such a consciousness. Collage-like in their surprising transformations from frame to frame, these works blur and clip the line between reality and nightmare, human and prompted construction, the mind and its absence. At times Kafkaesque, at times funny, these short films fit right in with horror and animate the troubles and figments of a consciousness that cannot be.
Photo credit: Boris Eldagsen
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Boris Eldagsen
Boris Eldagsen (1970) is a photomedia artist based in Berlin. With a strong pluridisciplinary background, Eldagsen has trained in photography and fine art, conceptual and intermedia practices, and philosophy, studying at the Academy of Fine Arts of Mainz, the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, the Sarojini Naidu School in Hederabad, the University of Cologne, and the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
His work combines photographs and videos with mixed media approaches, conceiving of immersive visual languages that investigate the unconscious and innermost workings of the mind, as well as, famously, concerns related to AI image generation. A founding member of the Deutscher Fotorat AI working group, Eldagsen’s work has been shown internationally, including at ACP Sydney, EMAF Osnabrück, Edinburgh Art Festival, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth. He has also lectured widely, presenting artist talks and workshops at over 30 universities and art schools worldwide.
BLIND LOOKING FOR A MIRROR “Wheelchair of Enlightenment”, Boris Eldagsen, AI-generated image, 2024
Original Idea
Boris Eldagsen
Series
“GOLDBERG’S CAVE”: commissioned by SKO, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
“PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT | Measurement Is King”: created in the Open AI “Sora Alpha Artist” program
“NEVERENDING STORIES”: courtesy Expanded.Art Berlin
Special Thanks
Hangar 7826, Gilles Tarabiscuité
Exhibition texts
Darby Minott Bradford