From them [humans] to us [AIs]. A speculative curatorial project about museums, futures and AIs.
Telefónica-UMA Chair in collaboration with the Vice-Chancellor's Office for Culture in the framework of the project Complexhibit
From them (humans) to us (AIs) is an exhibition-installation that explores the current and possible relations between human beings and artificial intelligences. The project is a free interpretation of the fictional novel Membrane (2021), by Jorge Carrión, in which news is given of the inauguration of a museum designed and conceived by the AIs at the beginning of the 22nd century. The exhibition-installation reimagines this museum of the future and transforms it into a speculative essay. The objects that articulate the exhibition route, which extend from thousands of years before Christ to 2100, tell a story of cessions, forgetfulness and debts, while at the same time, in a parallel and intersecting narrative, offering glimpses of what a different, critical and creative relationship with artificial intelligences could be (could be). From them (humans) to us (AIs)) immerses the visitor in an immersive space, engendered by the membranous mesh that AIs have been weaving throughout their exponential growth in the 21st century, and challenges the visitor to cross the threshold of the membrane and glimpse what lies (what might lie) beyond.
Important dates:
Start date: 13 February 2025
Completion date: 26 February 2025
Timetable: from Monday to Friday, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: Espacio CERO Exhibition Hall (Boulevard Louis Pasteur, 23)
Organisation: Telefónica-UMA Chair, Vice-rectorate for Culture, University of Málaga
A different kind of exhibition
Full credits:
Idea, concept and scientific direction: Nuria Rodríguez Ortega
Metacommissioning: Nuria Rodríguez Ortega and Jorge Carrión
Conceptualisation and curatorship: Students of the subject Museology and Museography in the 4th year of the Art History degree:
Noah Domínguez Wencesla, Marta Bleda Soler, Alba Hidalgos Torres, Diana Jurado González, Esther Pozo Martín, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Castillo, Celia Troughton Jiménez, Miriam Vasutiu, Álvaro López Rodríguez, Sergio Aponte García, Azucena Madhuri Megias Idígoras, Sara Navarro Pérez, José Rueda Río, Francisco Ramón Gómez Castilla, Marcela Tamar Blanco Sánchez, Alejandra Daza Moreno, Niccoló Grimoldi, Pablo Hermita Peláez, Marta Linares Antequera, Raúl Marín Canales, Silvia Martín Repolet, María Morales Benítez, Soledad Ruiz González, Yurena Vega, Ana Belén Villalba, Judit Cisneros Bueno, Álvaro García Cuadros, Katerina Kordunian Kasiuta, Yolanda Martín Vélez, Farah Mohamed Abdelkader, Silvia Mora Moreno, Ana Moreno García, Clara Rodríguez Cabrero, Alma María Ruiz Plana, Laura Arrebola Quesada, Laura A. Correa Monroy, Kriana Doroteo Labarete, Rosana Duarte Verdugo, Nerea González Soto Hoyeon, Han Sofía Portillo Rivas, Alejandro Rubio Díaz, Carolina Rueda Vázquez, Johanna Schmidt, Paula Cabello Candelas, María Araceli Muñoz Castro, Antonio Sánchez Ramos, Jara Rodríguez de las Heras, Sofía Urbano Roldán, Jesús Sánchez Lozano, Nelli Oganesyan, María Carvajal Istán, Sandra Santisteban Molina, Irene López Lobato, Ana Isabel Porras, Alba Navarrete, Andrea María Reina Sánchez, Blanca Ruiz, Esther Fernández, Lucía Rodríguez Morilla, Inés González Vázquez, Alicia López Pérez, Laura Fernández Sánchez.
Production design and development: Raúl Martín Canales (coordination), Marcela Tamar Blanco Sánchez, Paula Cabello Candelas, Alejandra Daza Moreno, Noah Domínguez Wencesla, Niccolò Grimoldi, Pablo Hermita Peláez, Marta Linares Antequera, Irene López Lobato, Álvaro López Rodríguez, María Morales Benítez, Araceli Muñoz Castro, Esther Pozo Martín, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Castillo, Jara Rodríguez de las Heras, Antonio Sánchez Ramos, Sofía Urbano Roldán, Ana Belén Villalba García
Concept, visual and interactive design: Agustín Linares
Narration: texts by Jorge Carrión intervened by Nuria Rodríguez Ortega.
Web design and development: Antonio Cruces Rodríguez
Generative AI implementation: Alejandro Mozo Quesada and Ángel Lumbreras Fernández
Virtual and immersive development: XRC Immersive Experiences
The Telefónica-UMA Chair would like to thank all the institutional representatives for their participation, as well as a large group of UMA students who took part in making this exhibition possible.
We would also like to thank all the media that have covered the event:
