HALLUC

INSTALLATION VIEW “HALLUC”, 2026. Courtesy of the Artist and Nicolas Krupp.

 

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.

 

INSTALLATION VIEW “HALLUC”, 2026. Courtesy of the Artist and Nicolas Krupp.

 

INSTALLATION VIEW “HALLUC”, 2026. Courtesy of the Artist and Nicolas Krupp.

 

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