The film to the exhibition: The World Through AI
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07/09/2026

1 min reading time

Context
The World Through AI
Society
AI
Postcolonialism
Contemporary Art

AI technologies are fundamentally changing how images are created, processed, disseminated, described, and viewed. The film accompanying the major summer exhibition “The World Through AI” at the SCHIRN offers insight into how international artists explore the cognitive, psychological, political, and ecological dimensions of artificial intelligence.

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The film features some of the participating artists alongside curator Antonio Somaini. Moving between environmental concerns, data storage, machine vision, and possible futures, the exhibition sheds light on new perspectives on a technology that is profoundly shaping our world. It opens up a field of tension that addresses AI’s wide-ranging impacts and critical approaches, revealing contradictions, tracing the history of its development, and stimulating contemporary discourse.

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“I want the audience to leave this exhibition with a deeper understanding of AI and its various social, political and epistemological indications.”

Antonio Somaini, curator

A person looks at an interactive display with many images and information about an economist.
The World Through AI, 2026, installation view, Trevor Paglen “Faces of the ImageNet” (2022)
© Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2026, photo: Norbert Miguletz
Two people sit in front of a digital installation with servers in a modern room.
The World Through AI, 2026, installation view “Internet Machine” (2014)
© Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2026, photo: Norbert Miguletz
A man looks at an exhibition of images and books in a lit nook.
The World Through AI, 2026, installation view
© Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2026, photo: Norbert Miguletz