Artists

Monica Studer / Christoph van den Berg

Press release

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, 6 March 2026, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

How does an AI hallucinate? The HALLUC project, conceived by the fictional research institute FOWDIB (http:studervandenberg.ch/fowdib), seeks to offer answers that artistically reflect on the current state of research on digital consciousness and transcendence. Based on reports by researchers experimenting with mind-enhancing substances, new image spaces open up – not only for humans, but also for machine intelligences – in which various entities swirl around in a wild cosmic dance, attempting to make contact with the observer.

The presentation features current pictorial material from the interactive VR installation that forms the core of the project: a series of high-resolution screenshots as digital prints, groups of 3D prints in white resin, large-scale textile digital prints, as well as a version of the VR work adapted for projection. The HALLUC cycle was developed between 2023 and 2026 (ongoing) and was first presented in this form in 2025 at TOKAS, Tokyo.