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title: "AI Politics: Slopaganda and the Archive"
date: 2026-04-20
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# AI Politics: Slopaganda and the Archive

- ![Fantastic scenes with a muscular warrior, mystical unicorns, and colorful characters in a surreal style.](https://www.schirn.de/en/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/NICHT-FREI-Schirn-Presse_Holly-Herndon-Mat-Dryhurst_Xhairymutantx-2024-2025-1.jpg)
- ![Fantastic scenes with a muscular warrior, mystical unicorns, and colorful characters in a surreal style.](https://www.schirn.de/en/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/NICHT-FREI-Schirn-Presse_Holly-Herndon-Mat-Dryhurst_Xhairymutantx-2024-2025-1.jpg)
- ![Fantastic scenes with a muscular warrior, mystical unicorns, and colorful characters in a surreal style.](https://www.schirn.de/en/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/NICHT-FREI-Schirn-Presse_Holly-Herndon-Mat-Dryhurst_Xhairymutantx-2024-2025-1.jpg)
- ![Fantastic scenes with a muscular warrior, mystical unicorns, and colorful characters in a surreal style.](https://www.schirn.de/en/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/NICHT-FREI-Schirn-Presse_Holly-Herndon-Mat-Dryhurst_Xhairymutantx-2024-2025-1.jpg)

As part of the exhibition THE WORLD THROUGH AI, the symposium curated by Antonio Somaini and Roland Meyer brings together a group of artists and researchers to explore the use of AI-generated imagery as a new form of political propaganda, and the role of AI models as filters reshaping our relationship with the past: with history, memory, and the archive.

[  To the exhibition ](https://www.schirn.de/en/exhibition/the-world-through-ai/)

**When** Thursday and Friday, June 11 and 12, 2026

**AI SLOP AND SLOPAGANDA**
**Thursday, June 11**
• Introduction & moderation: Roland Meyer & Antonio Somaini
• Speakers: Ada Ackerman, Wolfgang Ullrich, Hito Steyerl
• Screening: Hito Steyerl, THE ISLAND (2025)

**AI AND THE MEDIATION OF THE PAST: HISTORY, MEMORY, AND THE ARCHIVE**
**Friday, June 12**
• Introduction & Moderation: Antonio Somaini
• Speakers: Grégory Chatonsky, Occitane Lacurie & Barnabé Sauvage, Ania Szczepanska
• Screening: Ania Szczepanska, REINSCRIBING THE DONDORF (2026)

**Notes** Limited number of participants. Presale starting soon

**Antonio Somaini:** Curator of the exhibition, Professor of Film, Media, and Visual Culture Theory at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris

**Roland Meyer:** DIZH Bridge Professor for Digital Cultures and Arts at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts – ZHdK

- Supported by

NEMETSCHEK Innovationsstiftung